Freedom begins with freedom of the mind and soul.  Freedom begins with peace and acceptance.  In that regard freedom also begins with understanding specifically where we hold ourselves back and taking accountability and action to change that.  When we speak of freeing the mind we are referring to letting go the need for “Should.”  That word hinders nearly all personal power because the mind is powerful enough to convince ourselves that we need to do something other than what we want to do in favor of what others believe.  Tapping into the soul doesn’t have to refer to sitting quietly in meditation, rather it is simply hearing what the mind is telling us, not the outside.  When we are able to shut out the noise and understand and follow what our own thoughts say, that is freeing.  Our own thoughts unimpeded by outside influence guide us to where we want to go and what we want to do.  That’s intuition.

For millennia we have been trained to hide who we really our, hide our true thoughts.  History tells the stories of those who won and, only later, does it tell us of those who we discovered won, who had the power to be themselves but were ostracized for it.  We’ve rewarded power and dominance over magic and alchemy and self acceptance.  The very thing we sought, the integration of who we are and the expression of our power, was hindered and hidden because people feared that power.  People feared the things they didn’t understand so anything different became evil or forbidden.  Our own instincts and curiosities became forbidden.  But where would we be if someone hadn’t stood up and decided to go against the grain and do the work of discovery?  To contradict what we were told and to call those in power on their fears?  To challenge the common belief in order to share what was right?

The only should we need to follow is the should of our own hearts. The should of what feels right and the should of learning and understanding and development.  The better we do the better we can do for others.  We misconstrued the natural message of doing better as we needed to prove ourselves and exert power over others.  Again, history has shown we kill and destroy what we don’t understand.  Nature shows us that the strongest survive.  But as creatures with the ability to reason and logic our way through and to see the long term potential of our actions, we are meant to go beyond that fear and learn to apply our unique gifts to the betterment of all.  It isn’t about who is better than the other, it isn’t about authority over another, it’s about collaboration and cooperation.  It’s about expressing the greatest of all of us so we can create the greatest for all of us.  Accept ourselves, learn to accept others, and free all the burden of the mind and soul holding us back.  Let go of the should and embrace the reality.  That’s often more beautiful than the set path.  And what we can unleash together is more beautiful than we can imagine.