My dear friends, we love you so very much,
As many of you celebrate a holiday commemorating freedom, let us examine what freedom really is, how to achieve it, and how it best serves you. For as much as you all truly do want freedom, it is all too easy to outsource your power, your thoughts, and your ability to think, discern, and choose for yourselves.
It is just as easy, however, once you become aware of these tendencies, to reclaim your power, think for yourself, and embrace true freedom of mind, body, heart, and soul.
Often, freedom is defined in terms of what you want to be free “from.” You want to be free from tyranny, disease, and the control of those who want to have their way with you. And that is beautiful, but if you can’t find a focus on what you want to be “free to” experience, you will remain energetically entangled with all that you want to be “free from.”
Suppose you don’t enjoy your job or life situation. You might feel oppressed at work, controlled by a boss or others who don’t care about your well-being, tied to those you must caretake, and at the mercy of a system that controls your income. As you read this, you can already feel the confinement of such statements, no matter how true they might be at the time. The focus on what you want to be “free from” ties you, energetically, to it.
What if, instead, you were to focus on a spiritual truth—you are free to create work and situations that you love in cooperation with a benevolent universe—simply by aiming your energy and attention toward that which you wish to experience. You are free to love those in your charge while dreaming about a future more centered on your own desires. You are free to focus on what little bits of life are satisfying right now. Instead of complaining about what you wish to be “free from,” which ties you to it, you can start to talk about what it is you are free to create. You can imagine what it will feel like to feel more freedom. You are free to anticipate a better situation. The more you do so, the more you attune yourself, freely, to the situations you want to experience.
Many of you have already experienced this firsthand. You left a job or a relationship you didn’t like, only to find yourself in a similar situation once again. You didn’t realize it, but you had bound yourself to the person or situation you were leaving, even though you left it physically. By maintaining a frequent focus on what you were glad to be “free from,” you focused on it so thoroughly that you attracted it once again.
At some point, you were truly done thinking about what you left. You were done thinking about the injustice of it and the pain it inspired within you. You became tired of defending your right to have better. And as you relaxed and began to enjoy your life, bet ter started to appear. Your willingness to focus your free will on what you were “free to” experience instead of what you were “free from” opened new doors of opportunity, inspired you to explore new interests, and brought new types of people into your life.
Likewise, many of you have been “stuck” caretaking someone who wasn’t a kind patient. As long as you struggled with the situation or hated it, it continued to bother you. But at some point, you may have decided to just love the person you cared for, even in spite of their bad moods. No longer were they in control of you. You felt better about yourself. And by the time both they and you found freedom from the situation, you were already free and able to move forward without regret.
So what is freedom? Is it the ability to get away from what you don’t like? Partially, perhaps, but as we see it, freedom exists in the ability to think about what pleases you, inspires you, and draws you to it. Freedom exists in the ability to create change one step at a time and the ability to work in cooperation with a benevolent universe that wants you to experience a life that feels like love. It is the ability to find what is good here and now while anticipating more.
Freedom, dear ones, is your God-given right to attune to anything you please and thus draw it to you.
Using your free will to attract what you want feels like freedom. Using that same free will to focus on what you don’t feels like bondage. In all cases, you are free.
So, as so many of you celebrate freedom, remind yourself that you are always free. No matter the circumstance or the people around you, you have the free will and the ability to look at reality for opportunity or confinement. You have the freedom to focus on what pleases you or to focus on what does not. You have the freedom to look forward with anticipation or to decry what is in front of you today.
When wielded wisely, using your free will today can lead to greater and more joyful freedom tomorrow.
May you be free to love, free to see what pleases you, and free to look forward to even better than you know today.
God Bless You! We love you so very much.
— The Angels
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