Free Your Soul

The prerequisite to true freedom is to decide that you do not want to suffer anymore. You must decide that you want to enjoy your life and that there is no reason for stress, inner pain, or fear. Every day, we bear a burden that we should not be bearing. We fear that we are not good enough or that we will fail. We experience insecurity, anxiety, and self-consciousness. We fear that people will turn on us, take advantage of us, or stop loving us.

We carry an inner weight of fear.....fear of experiencing pain, anguish, or sorrow. Every day, we are either feeling it, or we are protecting ourselves from feling it. It is such a core influence that we don't even realize how prevalent it is. You only notice that you are suffering when it gets worse than usual.

Your mind is always telling you that you have to change something outside in order to solve your inner problems. But, if you're wise you will realize that the advice your mind is giving you is psychologically damaged advice. Your mind's thoughts are disturbed by fears.

By watching your mind, you will notice that it is engaged in the process of trying to make everything okay. Do not fight your mind. When you see the mind telling you how to fix the world and everyone in it in order to suit yourself, don't listen.

(to be continued. From: The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer)