Setting myself free

   What if I told you that you have the power to set yourself free. Free from worries, free from stress, free from self judgement, free from doubt, free from fear, free from anger and so much more? The chance to feel free as a bird doesn't come from a fast sports car, bungee jumping or winning the lotto. You are the only one who holds the key to set yourself free. Inside you hold the key to unlock that chain that has been holding you hostage all these years. Now imagine when you were a child you had a huge passion for dolphins. You draw them all over your notebook, you read about them and even dream to work with them one day. But your parents want you to become a Doctor. Everyone in the family has been successful at that so that is the right thing to do. Plus your friends laugh at your fascination for dolphins. What happens.....your dream is gone. You judge yourself as not good enough if you don't become a doctor! Anger, doubt, fear and self judgement come into our life slowly tying a chain around us and we hold our own self hostage and place a lock on ourselves. We have the key in our hand, in front of our face, but we chose to remain locked up in these chains of self limitations.

    So now all these voices in our head fill up our mind with lies such as ...I'm not a doctor so I'm not successful. I'm not a certain size so I'm not beautiful. I'm mixed with different races so I'll be judged a certain way. I've been through all of this and now I'm free! I came to a point in my life where I tried to change the people around me to change my life. But I failed time after time. With awareness I started to change my frame of mind, my thoughts and slowly but surely my life started to change. I stopped believing the lies my mind was telling me that kept me away from my dreams. We get so caught up in these lies that we start to believe them and it's all we know. The good news is that it's not too late to change all of this. You want to feel free then get the key and unlock those chains. Don Miguel Ruiz states in his book The Voice of Knowledge that "The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go. Once you tame the horse, you can ride the horse, and knowledge becomes a tool for communication that take you where you want to go."

   I believe every moment in life you can never get back and you better choose how you spend your minutes wisely. So I chose to spend these minutes writing this so that you can feel the same freedom I do. I always told myself I wanted to come back in the next life as a bird. They are so beautiful, they sing after the biggest storm and fly in the sky with such grace. But little did I know I am a bird! Soaring through the sky, care free and even though dark moments entered my life, I got through it. That didn't stop me from singing off the top of my lungs. I now know that I have to power to chose what I want to create in life . I am the co-creator of my life!