subject: How To Attain Your Inner Freedom [print this page] How do we attain inner freedom? What is inner freedom anyway? Think of it that way: If you ever find yourself in an unpleasant situation that seems to have no way out, it is because you have attracted such situation in your life and it is you who hold yourself chained to it with seemingly no escape.
Trustfully, you can never escape the prison that you create for yourself because that prison is not outside of you to be escapable, but inside of you in the form of your destructive thoughts and emotional attachments. So, attaining an inner freedom simply means to becoming your own best friend and stop doing things that are in contradiction to what your heart truly wants.
Most people nowadays, especially in the Western world, lead a life that dont seem to give them any joy or happiness, and dont even seem to be aware about it. They are so conditioned to their unfulfilling life that they are not capable to make any further step or are too afraid to make any.
They are depend and addicted to millions of different things that all contribute to their inner prison from which they cannot find a way out of. If you take away television, alcohol, partying, entertainment and Facebook, their life will start to seem terrifyingly empty, well for the fact that it is, but they do not want to admit that to themselves and instead continue blinding themselves with various forms of entertainment.
If you want to be free and live your dreams without a single form of resistance on the way to achieving them, you need to realize which things are actually beneficial to you and which things are only blinding you and keep you in your own little prison.
This is easily achievable when you are completely honest with yourself. It is not wrong to do something to entertain yourself or to enjoy a particular pleasure, but if those things hold you back and dont allow you to be free and live your dreams, you have a serious problem. And this is the time when developing self-honesty is of utmost importance.
Being able to tell when something is causing you more problems than you can take and make appropriate steps to overcome such destructive tendencies will enable you to be free and walk the path towards your desired destination. Nevertheless, we are the only ones who can create something for ourselves, so be wise in your decision making on never allow yourself to steer away from your goal.
