How Free Am I?

How Free Am I?

It was a good exercise when I went through the list and realize how I'm progressing through the years.

1. You have no desire to change places in life with anyone else. 

2. You step over setbacks without stopping or looking back. 

3. You accept and appreciate praise, but never take it to heart. 

4. You don't overeat or feel driven to diet. 

5. You don't think about your sex life. 

6. You meet and do what's true without fear of the consequences. 

7. You really don't want anything from anyone. 

8. You stop thinking about how much money you may or may not have. 

9. You don't carry any upset from the last moment into the present one.

10. You have no interest in old resentments. 

11. You start spending more time alone and enjoying it more. 

12. You stop dreaming of the perfect vacation. 

13. You're neither frightened nor shocked by the evening news. 

14. You stop making deals with yourself. 

15. You dress for comfort, not for compliments. 

16. You lose all interest in trying to win mental arguments. 

17. You don't blame anyone else for the way you feel. 

18. You forget what it was you didn't like about someone. 

19. You're awake to and spontaneously considerate of the needs of others.

20. You see beauty in life where you never could see it before. 

21. Your life gets progressively simpler. 

22. You see where you're wrong sooner than later, and stop defending

yourself faster.

23. You do what you need to do (but don't want to do) and you do it with a

lighter spirit.  24. You're not afraid of having nothing to say or do, if

that's your true condition.

25. You can take criticism without cringing away from the truth it may

hold.

26. You have no concern for what others may think of you. 

27. You stop trying to make others see life in your way. 

28. You enjoy the sound of silence as much or more than the sound of your

own voice.  29. You see the same unpleasant traits within yourself

that have made you shun others.  30. You say what you want, and not what

you think others may want to hear you say. 

31. You actually enjoy hearing about the good fortune of someone else. 

32. You see more and more just how unfree you and others really are. 

33. You're moods are fewer, lighter, and move on much quicker. 

34. You see that society is destroying itself and that the only solution

is self change. 

35. You can listen to others without the need to thell them what you

know. 

36. You don't find a thrill in any kind of fear. 

37. You know that forgiveness of others is the kindest thing you can do

for yourself. 

38. You realize that the world is the way it is because you are the way

you are. 

39. You'd rather not think about yourself. 

40. You can't come up with one good reason why you should ever be

anxious or frightened.  



(Excerpted from Freedom From the Ties That Bind by Guy Finley  1999

Llewellyn Publications)	

His website at http://www.guyfinley.com .