FREEDOM

What I think is very interesting to see is the part of our self or ego self that has been in power for many years and has a vested interest to stay in power. It has been a trick of society I believe, to keep us in an unconscious vicious circle that feeds on our feeling of lack and unworthiness. This is just a trick of the mind and like all tricks with awareness it will vanish in a flash.

Awareness is an interesting phenomenon, we can be in a dark room and all of a sudden after fumbling around not knowing where we are and letting all the darkness triumph, a small candle is lit and then with this new light we are able to see everything in the room. The light is soft and the smallest of winds can blow it out. …this is the way of awareness.

Your own awareness of who you are will start off very small, you will be very vulnerable, you will need to light this candle of awareness every day and as soon as you do there will be plenty of external forces wanted to blow your candle out. The reality is that no one can put it out permanently, you just come back after your day’s activity and go to your sacred space and sit and watch as the awareness comes back into full flame.

Awareness is a very lose term that I use to describe my conscious mind, after some time spent with myself, whether it be sitting in meditation or sitting drinking coffee the point where I see myself. At this point my flame of awareness gets brighter and I know that I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am a universal spiritual being inside this body or vehicle and like all vehicles I need to keep this one tuned up and vibrating brilliantly.      

Back to the ego self… it is strengthened when you identify its root beliefs about yourself then it will be easy to uproot them. Ok for me I have never had an idea of being perfect, I have been very lucky in my life and in my luck I have always felt like there was nothing wrong with me. However my life experience led me to a Tai Qi & Yoga Teacher who allowed me to experience one thing, the mind of a man who felt like he wasn’t enough as he was right now. I needed to torture myself, to strengthen my ego and I am eternally grateful for now I understand this mind and can help others to get bring awareness to this ego selfish mind.

This is a BIG difference, when your ego self sparks up watch it with your candle of awareness and don’t identify with it, don’t feed into it. If you react and dive into a practice because of your mind creating a feeling of not being good enough then the game is lost. But rather when you move into a well being play from the awareness of not trying to perfect yourself but rather just to bring you more awareness and well being, then the ego is totally disempowered. You create such a distance from it, that you can laugh in its absence and with this awareness you can respond to your life’s challenges and this is what I call FREEDOM.

We all have some part of this in us, society has planted it in our DNA and it is my joy to help people to see these seeds and then greater freedom and celebration for who you are right now can be experienced and lived right NOW.