Freedom is contagious -- the ability to live your life freely without fear of self judgement is something we all desire.

Yet, at the same time -- for those who have yet to acquire this skill, it can be a painful reminder of the chains that encumber them.

When you walk freely in the world you will attract all types of people -- those that admire you and wish to learn from you, as well as those that despise you -- as an expression of the hatred that they have for themselves.

When you realize that this negativity is **nothing** more than the internal self loathing boiling over from these individuals, imprisoned by their own actions and beliefs, the response can shift from one of anger to one of compassion. They are truly bleeding internally, each moment of theirs is measure of pain, determined by how greatly they are repressing themselves. 

Rather than turn away from them -- turn to them -- not all will listen, but all are seeking reprieve from their suffering. The answer is simple -- take back your power, take back your freedom. In theory simple, in practice, more complex.

You see, we have developed these intricate behavioral patterns with which we navigate our even more intricate culture -- to remove all of these at once would be to lose yourself, to remove them one at a time is a challenge at times -- yet at the same time, totally achievable. As surely as you can pick up every item of clothing from your thoroughly messed room, you can remove each and every limiting belief that you hold.

The most tried and tested way of accomplishing this is through meditation -- using the addition of fixed nothingness to "balance" out the peaks and troughs of your mind. As you travel through experience, maintaining your focus on nothingness will diminish the strength of your beliefs and thought patterns, eventually they will fade away.

For  those braver souls (or in some peoples minds, more reckless) hallucinogenic drugs will offer the same reprieve yet at a vastly increased pace : if meditation was to pick the blades of grass one by one, hallucinogens are the commercial grade mower with automated side arms and triple cutting blades -- they cut close.

In addition there are a wealth, probably infinite numbers, of other practices, that one can use to change their mind, their beliefs, their lives. As you learn about the brain you will see that it exists in a fluid state -- constantly and continuously changing it's nature and function. This is the modern phenomenon known as brain plasticity -- the brains ability to change and adapt itself.

If we hold a behavioral pattern that is maladaptive, by adding a competing pattern we can literally rewire the brain, more than it's functional but actually it's physiological state, to adapt and maintain this new pattern over time.

Just as you would choose to adopt and develop a new skill as a hobby, you can adopt a new mindset as a way of life.

Ask yourself : how do you want to go through life?
Do you want to be repressed, anxious -- constantly afraid of a situation that you can not control?
Or would you rather be optimistic, empathizing with those around you and joyous about the various potential futures that await you.

I know what choice I have made.
Which will you choose?