Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue -3, 1 September 2020 | Page 10

Anarchy to Ecstasy: What Is True
Freedom?
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
~ Thucydides
As humans we find ourselves in a difficult position. The moment we become even
remotely aware of our enslaved state in this world we long for liberation and
freedom.
For many of us who truly realise our state of servitude, we crave deep down to be
free from resentfulness, grudges, traumas, mistrust, entitlement complexes,
reactiveness, depression, expectations, desires, ideals, standards, self-judgment, and
most importantly free from fear.
Our souls secretly feel ashamed: we want to have wings and we want to fly – but
we realise how grounded and imperfect we are, yet we still intuitively know that we
can be free.
The reality is that this problem has perpetuated itself throughout history, and since
the dawn of time. Every man and every woman in every culture has searched for
freedom. But freedom from what? And freedom towards what? And most of all:
what really is true freedom?
What Is Freedom? “
When you ask most people what they would define as freedom they will most likely
answer something along the lines of: “Freedom is to be able to do whatever you
want” as in the stereotypical depiction of free spirits
Have you ever stopped to think about this interpretation of freedom? If everyone
really did whatever they wanted this would not truly be freedom – this would be
chaos and anarchy. Why? Because everyone has a different idea of what they want