FREEDOM

by Kaiulani Kimbrell

“No one can give you freedom but you…” -Byron Katie

Freedom is like tasting everything as if it is for the first time. It is a loss of past associations that created unnecessary pain that triggered us to act and react in ways that were harmful to others and ourselves. It’s an uncovering, discovering and discarding of personal, family or societal rules that created bondage, judgment and life depleting thoughts and actions.
Freedom is making rules that work FOR your life not against your life, rules that are built upon life giving principles of surrender and trust.

Freedom is clarity of mind. It is living in faith and ease that you’ll know… when you know.

Freedom is being so empowered by the beauty of your own self, that all you can see is the beauty in others, and the world around you, even in their worst moments.

Freedom is unyielding gratitude that just flows and flows and flows. 

Freedom is putting principles before personalities. And not being afraid of pain, because today you know your way out of pain… you know to question your thoughts and turn them around until you’ve moved from your false reality into your new one.

Freedom is when you realize how friggin cool everyone is and how cool you are, and that isn’t everyone so darn lucky to simply just be in the same room with one another!!!

Freedom = true self-empowerment that comes from a self-realization of the Divine bounty of who you really are. That cool kid in High School you always wanted to be, metaphorically speaking, is you.  You ARE that kid. You are he or she. You are cool. Cool as can be. Cuz you are You.

When life feels depressing, lonely, confusing, purposeless or just plain overwhelming, let’s check out the rules we’ve picked up over the years. These rules may be so unconscious and old that you have just assumed they are reality. But Freedom is dumping the reality we think we know on its head and being open to an entirely new experience.

I honor you. I respect you. And so do more people in your life then you probably know or realize. I would place a bet on it. Here’s a test: How would you walk into a room differently or make a phone call differently if you truly believed everyone on the other end was waiting for you with admiration and love; that they wanted you there. That you had something to contribute.

When we truly know our own worth and value our own authentic presence, we are free.