How Can You Reclaim Your Individual Freedom?
Hello, Steemians!
It is not a point of exaggeration to claim that we spend most of our lives bound by our habits, responsibilities, and other sources of obligatory nature.
In the course of our lives, we get addicted to many things and many people. Addiction is not just about drugs, and it could be anything of significance in your life. All these fascinating phenomena do is take away your real freedom.
Understanding that you may not truly be free is an important step in improving your life and the decisions you make on a daily basis.
Even if you live in a first-world, modern society with ample freedom of choice and expression, you do not possess freedom unless you search for it within your soul.
Let us examine the nature of freedom through an example that many could relate to. We are going to talk about smoking, and the addiction that ensues with exposure to nicotine.
A lot of smokers would have an easier time quitting smoking if they truly understood the nature of what they were doing and how it impacted their lives. Let me elaborate on this point.
When you are struggling with an addiction, you eventually begin to realize that you are a slave to the device of your addiction.
That means you have lost control to the point of not being able to control your cravings and decide what is best for your life.
Even though you know that smoking is bad for your health and the health of those close to you, you cannot give it up, because you are a slave to its will.
That is the true defining characteristic that distinguishes our lack of freedom.
When you have no control over something, you are subject to its influence, whether it is cigarettes or any other bad habit that you might have in this life.
There has always been an inner desire in each of us to strive towards freedom and flight.
You need only ride behind that wagon to finally reclaim your freedom. Realizing that you are not free is a great incentive to take control of your life.
This slavery is not just about things you could get addicted to.
A lot of people are a slave of other people’s opinions, because these opinions strip them of their freedom and individual self-confidence, which results in a loss of identity.
You could essentially be a slave of anything, so long as you find something in your life that you cannot control. Something that controls you.
Free your soul of the shackles that would otherwise keep it stamped to the underground of your pain and suffering. When you do, you will realize that life is not as miserable and difficult as you once thought.
That is because you are starting to take control.
Decide to take control today and the result will amaze you!
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Tremendous insight @chbartist. Very easy to be suck not only by our thinking but by our bad habits. And re-inventing both serves us well.
I like the image quote. Most people think life is about work, and impressing others. Everyone is just trying to impress everyone else.
Meanwhile some of the biggest questions in life go ignored, mocked or ridiculed. I'm new here, and my content will be addressing these topics Nice to meet you all.
Great motivation @chbartist and you are absolutely right, it is vital for all of us to get rid of the chains that bind us. Our freedom will depend only on ourselves, because without personal freedom it is impossible to live a normal life and move forward towards our goal. So do it and gain freedom!
I fought hard against a bad habit: smoking. Someone recommended me to remember the moment I acquired that habit and try to fix the situation mentally, forgiving the person who originated that habit and forgiving myself. Then, visualize myself as someone who is totally free from that attachment. The feeling I had after doing it was victory.
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Thank you very much for this article!
I'm just on the way to stop smoking and I hope this give me the last kick.
It's a very useful imagination because I'm absolutely against any slavery in my personal life.
Thank you very much.
Have a wonderful Sunday
Tom
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I included you, verify the last name on the list. Update! Regards
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Hi @zanoni, I'm include you on list! Regards and thank you! You are welcome!
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Thank you for your kind words! @alikhans.
Hello @chbartist!
Habits are acquired because they are important to belong to a tribe of society.
Let's identify the importance of belonging to that tribe. What the tribe brings and what we can contribute without the need to acquire a bad habit. As human beings we have a tendency to generate habits, we must be constantly monitoring these habits, which generate benefits to the physical and mental health of both the individual and the collectiveMy first thirty years I was a slave to the desire to be free.
Work hard and earn a lot materially.
I wanted to be free and I did not want to be "a slave" to my husband and my children.
But there came a point when I understood that we are always slaves of something. Even our freedom.
I decided to be a slave of God, and to rule my life according to the biblical teachings.
This frees me from slavery to work, to cigarettes, to alcohol, to materialism.
To do things for commitment even if I did not want to.
I think it is liberating when you find your true freedom even if in the eyes of others you are a slave.