How Free are You?

This is a simple self-assessment exercise for you to determine how “free” you are as a person.  Again, I am a list person, so get out your pens and papers!  Fold your paper in half.  Set a timer for ten minutes, only spend ten minutes on this exercise!!!  Don’t over-think it, it is supposed to be a spontaneous exercise.

In column one, list all of those things that bring you comfort, a sense of peace, happiness or joy, pleasure, in its’ simplest forms, maybe how you feel when you see the ocean, or hold a seashell, or when you think of baby pictures of one of your children, the simplest things that make you feel some delight.

In column two, list those things that make you feel anxiety, or anger, or fear, or embarrassment.

Remember, you only spend ten minutes on this exercise.

When the timer goes off, check your lists.

Which list is longer, the pleasure or the discomfort column?

If you spent more time and were able to brainstorm more thoughts in column one, you are a free spirit and optimistic in your outlook on life.

If your column two was more expansive, you are not free, and the very things that you listed, (and the more you expounded on any particular item), is an indication of just how trapped you are.

The only thing that can free you is yourself, this exercise can begin to effect that change in you, right now, today.

You now have brought to consciousness those things you need to feel free and happy, just as you have brought to consciousness those things that imprison and bind you.

These items in column two are the tip of the iceberg in that hell of your own personal demons.

Now that you have begun to identify them, you can begin to disempower them, let them go, and free yourself from bondage.

The items in your column two could well be represented by several different cards in the tarot deck, but are most likely related to the card of The Devil, that which holds us back and prevents us from making progress and living in the light.

Keep your list, and you can add to it and subtract from it.  Repeat the exercise in a month or so, has anything changed?  Are the things that are imprisoning you self-imposed or are they items that are out of your control that you cannot affect and can only let go of?

Think about it………

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