Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue -3, 1 September 2020 | Page 11

in life, and while one thing might benefit another person, it might impair or
completely destroy the life of another.
Deep down we know that freedom has to do with what is ‘right’, or in other words,
what benefits everyone, whether the individual or the collective.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
But how can we know what is ‘right‘? Religions have tried to use morality systems
as life guidelines but as we have seen, this hasn’t been very effective. To be free to
do ‘what is right’ we have to first be able to cultivate the maturity and wisdom to be
aware of the consequences of our actions. To be free we must become responsible
human beings – but yet most of us just want irresponsibility.
People continue to talk about freedom, but we don’t want freedom, what we want is
to be licentious. Unless your freedom can help you go higher than you were before
– to grow in spirit, compassion, gratitude, unity and forgiveness – then your
freedom is most likely another form of enslavement to your stimulation and
pleasure seeking, fear driven emotionally reactive lower self.
Some people think of freedom solely as a liberation from external forces like
political systems. But this is only one kind of enslavement! In reality, there are
three types of freedom: physical freedom, psychological freedom and spiritual
freedom.
On one hand, our physical enslavement is that which relates to our external bodies.
We might be in chains or behind bars, we might be held captive and tortured as
prisoners of war. We might be in a country that holds our race or gender as inferior
like ancient China where women were seen as property and you had all the legal
right to kill them if you wanted.
Our psychological enslavement, on the other hand, is something we are often not
even aware of. At a young age, for instance, we were taught cultural ideologies of a
political, social and religious nature, and throughout our lives we adopted them as
the “absolute truths” in our versions of reality. We also developed beliefs about
ourselves, sometimes delusionally grand, and other times grossly warped such as
the convictions that we are lazy, ugly, unintelligent or unworthy. In doing so we lost
our Self-Love and our authenticity