There is a path to freedom
A place we all want to go
It requires a bit of tenacity
It inspires a whole lot of letting go
It will take you low and it will lift you up
It will mellow you out
And it will jazz you up
It requires a strength
A pulling from deep within
It warrants a rising and
a little fire to begin
You’ve got to know you are
You’ve got to know to whom you belong
You’ve got to beat to your own rhythm
You’ve got to sing your own song
For liberty to ring
You must find your good vibin’ team
You must surround yourself with those
who appreciate and are never jealous of your bling
Cause you are designed to sparkle
You are destined to be the Light
You must learn the lessons from the darkness
Yet not stay long, you’re here to take flight
You must let go of the opinions of others
You must do your own thing
You must believe in yourself
And release what you came here to bring
Don’t look back
Your future isn’t there
Your freedom is already with you
Can’t you feel the confidence in the air?
There’s no-one to compete with
Just be the best that you can be
Girl, do your cray cray
Come on, get liberated. Get ridiculously free.
You will learn a whole lot of self-love
You will obtain a whole lot of grace from above
You will become a master of kindness The Light in your eyes ridding others of their blindness
Your heart will wrap humanity like a perfectly, warmed glove. This is what happens when you fill it with love
It’s an emancipation
It’s a no turning back
It’s a life full of colors
No darkness, no more black
But you must let go of any and all doubts
You must truly embrace a life of no droughts
You must believe you deserve no more strikes and no more outs
You were created to find life abundant and free
You were designed to be fierce, feisty, and sweet
You may at times feel like a plant in a desert
But you’ll be as aloe vera that heals and converts
Cause you’ll be the ointment that soothes the hurts
You’ll provoke change.
You’ll show others their worth.
You can’t find this space in the wide-open places by comparing yourself to others
or by being judgmental or racist.
You must find a way to see a Divine spark in all
See their seed of potential
Their rising and not their fall
Be love and light
Be joy and peace
Be happy and whole
You deserve to be free.
I wrote this poem as I was reflecting upon what it has taken for me to find a life of liberation. My heart is lighter than it has ever been in my entire life. However, this path to soaring has come with a tremendous amount of heart-squeezing moments which forced me to make willful and deliberate choices to obtain life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I found an entrance to the wide-open spaces through a very narrow door. It required restriction before it provoked liberation. I had to be disciplined with myself in many ways. I trained my thoughts. I trained my emotions. I trained my will to choose life moment by moment and circumstance by circumstance. There were requirements I had to make in order to sing my freedom song.
Below are 10 Wisdom Bites that I’ve picked up along my path to authentic freedom and joy:
#1 – Embrace the phenomenal essence of all that you are.
I live a beautiful life. I live in a gorgeous space, and I have been blessed with lots of wonderful things. I have also suffered significant loss in my life, but I have loved – deeply. For this, I am grateful. However, embracing my extraordinary essence is not based on what I have or what I have gained or lost. It’s based on who I am. I know who I am because I know whose I am. I may not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. That knowledge yields tremendous freedom.
#2 – Be yourself
Just be yourself. Just do you.
Those words liberated me. Those words helped unleash me into the truth of who I really am. All of us are searching for the same thing. We are all, for the most part, looking to feel accepted and validated. We all just want to know that we are heard, that we are valued, and that what we have to say matters. We all want to hear the words,
I love you, I see you, and I appreciate you exactly as you are. I don’t want to change one single thing about you. Just be you!
Isn’t it so freeing whenever someone speaks these words over us? However, we should also be able to say these words over ourselves and truly mean them.
You can be a better version of you if you stop trying to be a better version of someone else.
Feel proud of yourself. Be proud of how far you’ve come and how you’ve grown. Truly learn to love everything about yourself. Embrace your unique, quirky-cute, magical self! Learn to embrace you the way you have embraced and loved others throughout your life.
The only way to an extraordinary life, and the only way that you will ever manifest the greatness of all that is you is just to be yourself. This is what God wants. This is what your Creator wants.
Ask yourself. What is the truth of me? What do I believe? Why am I here? What can I offer?
What you can offer is you.
You are the earthen vessel in which God has poured His glorious Spirit. You are the house for the Divine. Release that. Release Him.
The most success and prosperity you will ever have in your life will come as a result of you being yourself. This is when your passion and creativity will unleash, and abundance will flow. Your wealth is connected to how well you are doing you.
Your number one goal should always be to become more of who you are. Being your true self is the only requirement that actually matters. There’s not another human being on this earth quite like you. Nobody’s been through what you’ve been through exactly like you’ve been through it. What you are here to do and what you are here to contribute is special. You being here matters. It’s meaningful because, for every single contribution that you are here to make, the world has been eagerly waiting for it. They have been waiting to experience you and your remarkable existence. You must know that the very fact that you are here on this earth is enough. You don’t have anything else to prove.
I remember once being in a religious study group where the teacher said, “We have too many people running around thinking they are special snowflakes. The problem is you all think you are special.”
No, the problem was I didn’t think I was special which was evident, because I was tolerating and putting up with people like that in my life, people who didn’t want me to believe I was special.
I am special, and so are you.
When your personality comes to serve the energy of your soul, that is authentic empowerment.
– Gary Zukav
Your job here on this earth is to use your personality to serve the energy that is your soul, the soul that is going to go on and on forever. There is a big, brilliant Light inside of you. Serve it. Serve as the uniquely, gifted expression of Divinity that you are.
Whatever makes you feel alive and come alive is your truth. Being able to understand what that is, allows you to do what every human is here to do. It enables you to fulfill the truest and highest expression of yourself as a human being.
No matter what, live what is true for you. Just be yourself.
#3 Be committed to growing spiritually.
You cannot be all that you were created to be unless you develop a spiritual practice. You cannot get away with living on this planet as a spiritual being having a human experience unless you are willing to give yourself some time to nurture the Spirit of you.
This is why meditation, yoga, sitting underneath the shade trees, relaxing by the ocean, and taking some time for yourself to be still is so critical. It allows you to fill your tank. Those moments take you directly to the Source of all energy where you will be sustained by the energy that comes from the Divine Source of all things. Surrender to that power. Surrender to that energy, to that force field, and you will live the truest dream for you. Surrender your fear. Let go. Let God come into alignment with the Spirit that is you, and you too will experience the miraculous, phenomenally powerful, majestic, graceful life that you are waiting to claim for yourself.
#4 Listen to your Inner Voice and follow it.
Your life is always speaking to you. Those whispers take many forms. Sometimes they come through goosebumps and the hairs standing up on the back of your neck. Sometimes earthen angels, guardians of truth, will appear in your life to try and help move you in the right direction. My mama was one of those. When you’ve identified one, pay attention when they appear, and listen to their guidance.
Those moments are not coincidences. Your life is trying to tell you something. Whether you listen or not, you are always making the choice between staying the course or detouring. You can stay in a situation that is no longer working for you, or you can heed the call towards your destiny.
#5 Stay in the flow.
Get in the flow. There is a powerful stream of good vibing energy with your name on it. Your job is to find that flow and let it carry you from one level to the next.
When you’re life is out of order, when you’re feeling out of sorts, when things aren’t going the way they should be going, and you can’t figure out what’s wrong, you are out of flow. Your number one responsibility is to get yourself back in that flow. How will you find it? It will feel right to you. The truth feels good. Focus on moving in the direction of truth. If you move in the direction of doing the right thing you will find your flow. Because doing the right thing is moving in the direction of love, and love is what is going to lift you to the highest possible vibration. When you are in the flow, you will experience love, harmony, and a reverence for all life. Love lifts you up where you belong. Love places you in the flow. Love positions you for an endless dance in the rivers of life.
#6 Look deeper
Beneath the surface of all things is the true thing. In all circumstances, look for the truth of what is really happening.
No matter who you are, no matter how strongly or how fiercely you can stand, a crisis is going to come. When it does, when betrayal comes, when devastation comes, when loss comes, the first thing you should ask is,
“What are you here to teach me?”
When you can do that, it mitigates the loss, because you get clarity about why it is happening. It lessens the struggle and loosens it up. It becomes easier to bear, because you will understand that your crisis has arrived to teach you something. It is there to instill eternal virtues that grow your soul.
#7 Failure is an opportunity.
I don’t believe in failure. Failure is just information and an opportunity to change your course. Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s just a detour. It’s a big, red flag saying to you, “This is the wrong way. Turn around.” Do not be devastated by failure. Thank it. Bless it. Let is raise you up. Let it show you a better way and take you in a new direction.
#8 Be of service
Pray and ask the Universe and all that is God to use you. Ask your Creator how you can be used in the service of your highest good and in alignment with that which is in the highest good of others.
#9 Stop wasting time.
You have a limited amount of time do to the good that you’ve come here to do. Take time to understand what the truth of your life is and get about the business of living it. Make a decision that you are going to step into your best life. You don’t have to ask what that is. You know what it is because you already know what it isn’t.
And when you don’t know what to do, do nothing. Get still until you do know what to do because nobody knows the answers for your life but you. Nobody can know your truth for you. Only you know the path to your truth, and you will always obtain the answer when you are willing to seek and hear your own truth.
#10 You are the master of your fate. You are the captain of your soul.
You are creating your reality as you think and as you act upon those thoughts. The Universe is continually reflecting back to you every thought, action, and feeling you have. Master thyself. It matters.
A better reality starts with an intention to do well and to be a force for good in this world. When you accomplish this, what you get in return is an extraordinary life where you are continuously shown goodness and mercy. That’s to say if you have the spiritual insight to recognize it.
Never sit around waiting on someone else to fix your circumstances. You are the one who is in the driver’s seat. You are the master of whatever is going to happen to you. The issues of your life are springing forth as a result of the contents within your own heart. As a man thinketh, so is he. How are you envisioning your life? When you are following the path of truth, you can always trust that you will be strong enough to stand through whatever happens to you. Why? Because you will know that your greatest source of power comes from the Power Source.
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