There is nothing quite like knowing you already have it all. Knowing that no matter what life brings, it’s only icing on the cake. It puts you at ease with everything. Living situation, friends, family and success, become the second order of business. They are no longer going to stress or consume you. Wonderful when they work, and when something changes, your baseline stability keeps you going. In a world built on exterior success, this is true wealth. The strange thing is, it all comes about through withdrawing identification with anything outside of you. The total opposite that we are conditioned for. We just don’t realize how draining it is to attach identification to an ever changing world.
Looking at it from a conventional viewpoint, this seems cold and distant. In reality it gives you the ability to show up fully in life and in love. Imagine the difference in your ability to show up for life when you aren’t subject to it’s fluctuations. Like a rock solid stance in any storm. This is the freedom of staying within yourself. The Idea that you need to be enmeshed with people and things to care is the great deception. Staying within opens you to love deeply and have effective ways to move through life. Flowing with it, rather than resisting. When you are identified, you are attached to life’s twists and turns, and will lose balance.
Truly, this is what freedom is. There simply is no better feeling than walking through life without a care in the world. This statement can bring thoughts of, no love or compassion. It’s simply not the case. Look at it like this. Imagine the love you have for someone. Let’s say they fall ill, or have an accident. Immediately you are mentally in bed with them suffering the same fate. All they see on your face is worry and support for their condition. How does this energy translate? Zoom out a bit and look at the big picture. How is worry and suffering coming from both parties going to help? It’s not. Don’t mistake giving love and support with enmeshment that causes worry and suffering. They are two completely different things.
Worry stands on fear. And worry promotes fear. It can spread easily and make matters much worse. Amplifying back and forth causing the situation to decline. All, not because of what this person may lose, but what you will lose. And there it is, the whole thing spelled out. Worry has nothing to do with your care for another. It only has to do with yourself. It’s all about what will I lose, how is this going to effect me? This is the horrible result of identifying with people or anything out side of you. It all becomes about you. Your whole world becomes subject to every breeze as you hold on for dear life. Because you have made everything, your life. And you will feel it as that.
True love and compassion holds a completely different energy. Real feelings flow out from your heart. Willing to be with them fully. Accepting them fully, because you accept yourself fully. Here is the secret. The reason people worry is because they hold a low opinion of themselves and they accumulate an exterior identification to try and make up for it. So when life around them fluctuates, fear and worry consume them. It all comes back to the same issue. How you see yourself, affects everything in your life. Freedom from this prison is finding love and kindness for yourself. It’s a process of letting go. Letting go of beliefs that aren’t true. It’s not an easy thing, letting go of identifications. It feels like death, but in truth it’s the flowering of life. Freedom is here for the willing, and with it, the fulness of life…