Forty Ways to Determine
Your Level of Inner Freedom
In the category of
“Some of the Best I’ve Ever Read”, here are some great
words of wisdom from Guy Finley…
Want to know how
free you really are? Good! You're about to be presented with a unique opportunity
to learn all about your individual level of inner liberty.
As you review each of the inner liberties on the list, just note mentally
whether or not that particular freedom belongs to you. Our intention is simply
to learn what's true about ourselves, not to prove
anything about ourselves. Allow these forty freedoms to awaken and stir that
secret part of you that knows living in any kind of bondage is a lie. Then
follow your own natural sensing all the way to the free life.
You're Well Along Freedom's Path When:
1. You have no desire to change places in life with anyone else.
2. You step over setbacks without stopping or looking back.
3. You accept and appreciate praise, but never take it to heart.
4. You don't overeat or feel driven to diet.
5. You don't think about your sex life.
6. You meet and do what's true without fear of the consequences.
7. You really don't want anything from anyone.
8. You stop thinking about how much money you may or may not have.
9. You don't carry any upset from the last moment into the present one.
10. You have no interest in old resentments.
11. You start spending more time alone and enjoying it more.
12. You stop dreaming of the perfect vacation.
13. You're neither frightened nor shocked by the evening news.
14. You stop making deals with yourself.
15. You dress for comfort, not for compliments.
16. You lose all interest in trying to win mental arguments.
17. You don't blame anyone else for the way you feel.
18. You forget what it was you didn't like about someone.
19. You're awake to and spontaneously considerate of the needs of others.
20. You see beauty in life where you never could see it before.
21. Your life gets progressively simpler.
22. You see where you're wrong sooner than later, and
stop defending yourself faster.
23. You do what you don't want to do, and you do it with a lighter spirit.
24. You're not afraid of having nothing to say or do, if that's your true
condition.
25. You can take criticism without cringing away from the truth it may hold.
26. You have no concern for what others may think of you.
27. You stop trying to make others see life in your way.
28. You enjoy the sound of silence as much or more than the sound of your own
voice.
29. You see the same unpleasant traits within yourself that have made you shun
others.
30. You say what you want, and not what you think others may want to hear you
say.
31. You actually enjoy hearing about the good fortune of someone else.
32. You see more and more just how unfree you and
others really are.
33. Your moods are fewer, lighter, and move on much quicker.
34. You see that society is destroying itself and that the only solution is
self-change.
35. You can listen to others without the need to tell them what you know.
36. You don't find a thrill in any kind of fear.
37. You know that forgiveness of others is the kindest thing you can do for
yourself.
38. You realize that the world is the way it is because you are the way you
are.
39. You'd rather not think about yourself.
40. You can't come up with one good reason why you should ever be anxious or
frightened.
There's one more important point to bring to our attention: never be
discouraged over your present location! Discouragement is a negative emotion
with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or
emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow
permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind.
Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person
you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your
past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to
it than the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. You have a
destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
It may not seem so at first, but your new findings are a great start. Now keep
going. Use this list and your new discoveries to help you ignite your wish to
be free. Then step back and welcome the spiritual firestorm. Watch as it burns
away the ties that bind. This is what it means to let the Light fight for you.
(Excerpted from Freedom From the Ties That Bind by Guy Finley © 1994
Llewellyn Publications)
Guy Finley is the best-selling author of eighteen books and audiotapes on
self-transformation. His works, which have sold over a million copies and have
been translated into nine languages, are recommended by doctors, ministers, and
industry leaders. For information on books, tapes, and helpful on-going study
groups call (541) 476-1200, write to the Life of Learning Foundation,
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