Stereotypes Aside, Here are Seven Authentic Signs of the Free Spirit

1. You’re a rebel and non-conformist 

2. You’re an innovator and dreamer 

3. You thirst for truth 

4. You have an inner “BS” detector 

5. You welcome challenge 

6. Your heart is your compass 

7. “I will not be enslaved” is your unconscious motto 

I’ll go more into depth below: 

1. You’re a Rebel and Non-Conformist 

By nature, you’re a non-conformist. 

You don’t like walking the path other’s set before you. You want to trailblaze your own destiny. 

You instinctually fight against anyone’s attempt to put you in a box, contain you, suppress you, silence you, or numb you. 

2. You’re an Innovator and Dreamer 

As a free spirit, you’re not afraid to let your mind wander to new horizons and realities. 

You have big ideas that may sound far-fetched or bizarre to others. 

Being rejected for your goals, plans or inventions is a big thorn in your side. 

Others can’t seem to get on the same page as you! You’re a visionary who always enjoys finding new ways of doing things differently than others. 

3. You Thirst for Truth 

How can a person be free when they’re living a lie? Or believing lies? 

In your heart and soul, you long to find truth, both in everyday life and metaphysically. 

The old aphorism “the truth shall set you free” is something you carry deep inside your heart. You are willing to be wrong and are open to many different explanations. 

What is most important to you is what is real. 

4. You have an inner “BS” Detector 

Part of that thirst for truth is the desire for authenticity - in yourself and in others. 

You can smell bs* from a mile away and it disturbs you. 

How can you (or others) be free when deception and phoniness are running rampant? You despise playing roles and putting on masks and you can’t be around fake people for very long before the desire to run for the hills bursts like a howl out of you. 

5. You Welcome Challenge 

Life becomes dead and stagnant when there’s no challenge. 

Although you may find it a bit scary and intimidating, being challenged is welcome by you as a free spirit. 

You know, deep down, that to be free from inner and outer oppression you must grow. 

And to grow, you must be challenged. 

You don’t seek comfort or complacency. 

You seek to feel and be alive. 

You seek to transform into the highest version of yourself possible. 

6. Your Heart is Your Compass 

Your heart is your compass and you direct your life accordingly. 

This doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re reckless, but it does mean that you’re always striving to do what you love - because when you accomplish this, you feel free. 

Furthermore, you don’t just let what you’re passionate about sit on the back burner or fizzle away into oblivion, you find some way of incorporating it into your life. 

Even if you have abandoned your passions, you become passionate about trying to reconnect with them. You want to live a life that you love and offer something to the world that you truly believe in. 

7. “I Will not Be Enslaved” is your Unconscious Motto 

As a natural rebel, you seek to remove beliefs, ideologies, habits, careers, and people from your life that cause you to feel oppressed, and therefore enslaved. 

You do this on both a physical and a metaphysical (or emotional/mental/spiritual) level.

You are attracted to people and paths that encourage the growth of your passionate spirit. You refuse to be tamed by the opinions or desires of others. You may be perceived as selfish, but deep down you know that you must respect and love yourself in order to share your gifts with the world. 

If the beliefs, habits, and traumas within YOU are the source of your own suffering, you’ll try your utmost to free yourself from them. You realize that in order to be fully free, you must be comfortable and at home within yourself. 

Therapy, self-exploration, inner work, and spiritual practice will all be methods by which you seek to liberate yourself from suffering. 

Being a free spirit will become less about traveling the external world as it will be about traversing, and mastering, the inner landscape. 

If this is you, this is certainly your turn now. Evolutionary encoding is uniquely in all of us. In humanity evolution has become consciousness and choice. Everyone’s purpose is needed now. Everyone is coded with a certain purpose, excellence, impulse, yearning to be expressed.

As Barbara Marx Hubbard says, The impulse of evolution is you and in you and it always wants to move forward. Crisis is perceived transformation. And problems are evolutionary drivers.

This is a very important lesson, because it is easy to judge crisis whether it is personally or socially. But is it also true that the crisis drives innovation, caring, uplifting such examples as festivals like burning man or thousands of people gathering together for global meditation.

The current crisis on earth actually cause us to see what is emerging. A crisis is a sign for transformation and mutation. 

Towards more meaning and purpose, greater freedom of the individual, more complex oder, more consciousness. That is evolution inside of each of us.

The question remains, will you respond to your inner purpose ?

We all know we are facing something new together.

But it is hard to grasp what is being borne out of the crisis because the new is almost always invisible.

As always I love to hear your comments below.

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