Change your Mind and Free Yourself

I woke up the other morning with a most unusual feeling.
It was something I hadn’t felt before. I felt… Free.
Free in every way.
Free of everything that had been weighing me down.
Like intangible prison walls had been dissolved all around me.
All of the things that I thought were barriers to my happiness had become obsolete on that morning. It became crystal clear that all of the things that I felt were holding me back or keeping me down were illusions. Mental traps that I had set within the framework of my mind which kept me feeling stuck in an invisible cage.
A cage that my own mind had built from all of the expectations of others, the world, and even myself.
It was a magnificent epiphany. As if time had stopped and all became clear in that one magical moment.
I. Am. Free.
I thought to myself as I poured my morning coffee. And then a strange, new feeling spread throughout my being. Something that I’ve never felt before. The feeling of being truly free.
It was a pure rush of bliss. Joy. Exhilaration.
You might be thinking, “Well, of course, you are. Duh.” But the kind of freedom I’m talking about is mental freedom. A new way of thinking.
A revolution of the mind.
We often don’t realize the limitations of our own mindset until we are somehow forced to face the boxed reality that we’ve put ourselves in. Or if something happens that causes us to see things from a different point of view. In my case, it was almost like a divine intervention had taken place and I awoke to a new realization. A new world that had always been there behind my imagined walls.
We often don’t realize the limitations of our own mindset until we are somehow forced to face the boxed reality that we’ve put ourselves in.
All of the things that I felt I should do, could do, couldn’t do, will do. . .were just gone…
The imagined obstacles were no longer blocks on the road to the life I really wanted.
They were just illusions.
Things that I had allowed to be roadblocks to living my best success. Nothing and no one was keeping me where I am. No one was forcing me to do or not do what I felt I had to do. I realized that I had been perceiving certain situations and making certain choices because I had been unknowingly living in a state of powerlessness.
I had been living in an invisible cage of my own boundaries and the boundaries of others.
I realized on that morning a total feeling of freedom. I’ve never felt that in my entire life. I had been caught up in an endless loop of my past mistakes, choices, and fear. Stuck in some kind of twilight zone with no way out.
Then this morning something beautiful happened. It’s like my whole being woke up from a deep, dark illusion. I woke up with freedom. And fear ran out the door.
This made me think. What is freedom then? Is it truly our circumstances and all that entailed as I had believed my whole life. Or is it a mindset? Is it a choice to feel free? Perhaps both?
It became perfectly clear.
If I can change my mind (my perspective), I can change my life.
And so can you. . .
