Friday, April 4, 2014

What one does.

The unsaid (and said) expectations of our worlds, the pressure we put on ourselves. The 'norm'. What a huge amount of suffering this creates. 

What are the things you feel are expected of you in your life in terms of how much money you should have, what kind of house you should live in, what your relationship should be like, whether you should have children or not, what your body should look like, what clothes you should wear, how you should behave? And the list is endless.

So many of these things are powerfully and subtly dictating the hard time we are giving ourselves.  As human beings we are in constant relationship with the world around us, the images we see, the things that are spoken, the spaces we move and sit in. Deeply in out backgrounds we find (if we really look) that the world around us is asking things of us, inviting us to think, believe and see things in a certain way. And if we don't get conscious of it, we unconsciously lives that are not ours, putting pressure on ourselves, wasting our precious time with things that are not the highest expression of who we are.  And our spirits are caged, diminished and held back from the world in their fullest expression. 

Our bodies become comparable to photoshopped models, our homes become comparable to shoots on OK! Magazine, our children become comparable to the ones on the fabric softener adverts. And that's only the start.

Freedom from the 'they', freedom from what the world is telling us to be, freedom from the imagery we compare ourselves to. Imagine a life outside the they where you get to choose what's important, you get to live how YOU want to live this one precious life.  

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