How to become Free... like totally fully you...

How to become free.
How to release and receive.
How to know yourself and what you desire.
How to take the steps.
How to navigate the fears.
How to show up.
How to be.
How to...

These are questions only we can answer when we've done them.
And even then, the answer expands and grows as we keep stepping forward.
We don't jump from the matrix, or the job, or the bad habits, or limiting beliefs overnight.
We do it in this second. In the now.
Then we do it again in the next second.
It's discipline. But not the kind that takes a whole bunch of effort and hard work.
It's the other side... the allowing and accepting and relaxing.
Both.
You get further with both wings, both feet, both contrasting parts.





Freedom means awareness.
Freedom comes when we define the cages....the bars...and the energy that makes them up.
It comes as we begin to see past them. Take actions that support beyond what the cage provides.
This means...to know what is causing you constriction and stress.
   to know what parts are not working, not supporting, not embracing you.
   Once we know these things, we can plan actions that help us step away from them.
   This can be done over a period of time, or in an instant.
  What are you prepared for? How desperate is your situation? How much does it really matter?
We plan, we take the step we can take for today.
   if that means putting in a notice, do it. (the next step doesn't show itself until you take the first)
   if that means packing up and moving back home, do it.. (call your family, gain support)
   if that means unburdening yourself from a relationship that isn't working, do it. (communicate)
   if that means resting more and letting go of stressful tasks, do it. (Allow yourself to be cared for)
...your freedom is personal... be personal and intentional about how you want to navigate it.
  
Freedom means creation.
It means defining your needs and responsibilities that you DO want to keep.
   this means setting priorities, making them into your plans, supporting your best pieces of life.
And what can help you support these important things?
What can you delete that stresses them and what can you add that benefits them?
Where can you arrange a balance between the give and take? At least for now?
Where can you allow more, and where can you receive more?
What are you creating that flows to and for these good things?
What are you creating that is blocking those good things?
   I know you know these things. Those times you don't play with your kids because of something stupid. Those times you work overtime but haven't communicated with your spouse about anything all week. Those times you forced yourself to get things done, but couldn't allow yourself to be cared for by others....

Freedom means balance.
   But not like work and play... but like slow ease, and quick excitement.
It means patience and space. Breathing room, lots of cushion. Lots of forgiving and understanding.
It means acting on inspiration, on energy that shows up in the moment.
   not to think about it until it dies off... but to move with action when you are alive and carried with a unnameable passion.
It is an ocean of waves, and sometimes we are at the surface, riding waves and enjoying the sun...and sometimes we are in the depths of silence and repose.
   We can choose to tread water and get tossed by the sea, or choose to navigate what comes with skill, with ease, with intelligence. And we can choose to dive deep into our soul and discover who we are and whether we want to move toward a goal or be satisfied with were we are now.

Freedom means power.
   Saying no to what isn't for us, and yes to what is.
It means having the choice EVERY DAY with what or whom we will engage with.
It means the choice to play with society for today, or not. To create something today, or not. To be someone today, or not. To speak today, or not.
Choice IS power. And if you don't have a choice you have NO power.
Begin choosing what is FOR you.
Begin choosing what you want.
Begin taking actions that lead you towards what you love.
Choose to begin.

Freedom is in the NOW.
   It's not tomorrow or yesterday, or just a mindset thought.
It is right now with who you are being and what you are thinking right NOW.
It is in the choices you are making today.
The thoughts you are thinking today.
The way you are either moving forward or backwards or sideways.
It may seem like it's about reaching it in the future, but we can't reach what isn't built.
We build it by BEING it. Today. Now. In this thought. This action. This choice.
And it grows when we show up and stay consistent with those thoughts and actions.
    If we carved a rut with a not so great mindset, it's going to be a bit of a challenge to stay out of it and carve a new beneficial path... but it can be done...in a few days even, it's about your awareness of your choices, actions, words, thoughts.

Freedom is energy.
Use your emotions to propel you out of the ruts and onto the road you want to create.
If you have to cry and yell and scream and rage to shut up your shit thoughts, do it.
If you have to close your eyes and meditate for an hour to align yourself, do it.
If you have to lift heavy things and run a mile, do it.
If you have to take a hot bath and blast music, do it.
There is no wrong way back home to YOU.





No one can tell you how to do it. Not really.
We can lay out the paths and maps and hand you a compass and a gps...
but sometimes it does no good to those not yet ready.
That's okay.
Some people love their jobs and lives and they are prime examples of success.
Some don't work, have everything they need and want, and love their lives, and that too is success.
Some like the push and pull all the overcoming of trials...and if they are happy, that too is success.
But freedom is usually only sought by those who don't have what they need or want. That haven't found a love for life. That don't experience success.

So what do you want for yourself?
You can change things over time, or you can do it today.
You already have the freedom to choose.
No one gives you freedom... it is an energy that flows from within.
What blocks it is all the things you put between YOU and IT.
the excuses, the 'but's, the doubts, the past, the fears, the victim card...

No one can tell you how to do it. How to be 'free'.
But you can. You can tell you how to do it and you can do it today.
Summon your courage, your strength, your resolve.
Free your self. Your soul. Your ego. Your mind. Your body. Your limitless you.
Take all of who you are, all your parts and pieces and aspects and run with them.
Trust them. There's no cutting any part out when you are free to include them all.
Freedom is freedom of YOU.

~ Jennifer Coots ~ https://www.facebook.com/JenniferCoots