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By Escaping Toward Freedom Author Denise Turney @ (www.chistell.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Completely escaping bondage is a powerful act of love. At first glance, getting free is evidence that you love yourself. Dig deeper and it becomes clear that completing getting free is also evidence that you love everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pay Attention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting completely free licenses others to stop worrying about you, giving them the energy to create a better life. If you\u2019ve worried, you may be familiar with how weighty, how heavy, worry feels. Should you not be familiar with how heavy worry feels, keep experiencing this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pay attention. Let the contrast between what it feels like to worry vs. what it feels like to love (love being the absence of fear), and you may soon notice the difference between worry and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worry and you might feel as if you\u2019re carrying a weight, a heaviness. Stop worrying and you might instantly<\/em> feel lighter, unburdened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next time you give into worry, pay attention to how you feel. Also, notice how you feel when you stop worrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This single shift can alert you to how much worry, and any other form of fear, is bondage. Enter into fear and you really don\u2019t feel free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bondage Forms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, there\u2019s physical bondage, financial bondage, sexual and work bondage, to name a few other forms of non-freedom. Just as a kidnapper might allow the person who they\u2019re using to experience the illusion <\/em>of being in control to roam a room in their house absent handcuffs, the ego part of your mind might allow you to feel free from one or more bondage forms, but only for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, if you\u2019ve spent time in financial debt, you might reach a point where you put your foot down and decide to create a budget. And, you might stick to the budget for several weeks, maybe even several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, like a yo-yo or boomerang, you go back to spending too much money. It\u2019s as if you don\u2019t want to get completely free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back and forth you go, never completely cutting the cord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Bondage Normal To You?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a while, you start to think that living in some form of bondage is normal<\/em>. Believing this could be one of the worse parts of not doing what it takes to get completely free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s doubtful that you want this. You don\u2019t want to believe that hanging on, getting by or surviving is normal or the best that you can ever do. To make a clean break, start small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revisiting the financial bondage example, if you\u2019re several thousand dollars in debt, make a plan to pay the debt down one hundred dollars a month. Yes. It might take two years to pay the debt off, but it\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During those two years, you might accept the truth about your situation. You might accept that you really do have the power to live free. With each monthly paydown, you have evidence that you can live without financial debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do this and you\u2019ll take a giant step forward. After all, many are convinced that living in some form of debt is just the way it is, <\/em>again as if living in debt is normal<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get Completely Free<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allow yourself to live free of financial debt. Get real accustomed to how it feels to be financially free. Just don\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take an honest look at y<\/a>our entire life<\/a>. See if there are other areas where you need to get completely free. Examples include unhealthy eating habits, lack of exercise, sleeping through the weekend, getting addicted to watching television and worrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as you worked your way out of financial debt into money freedom, consider taking small steps toward freedom in other areas where you\u2019ve been living in bondage. Commit to gaining complete freedom<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forget shifting back and forth, moving from bondage to freedom back to bondage. Get completely free. Should you get stuck along the way, seek support, qualified support from someone with integrity. Mark your progress. Each week examine your life and your progress truthfully, with honesty. Above all, keep your eye on the goal \u2013 completely escaping bondage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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