?? WHAT IS FREE WILL? ??

Hello, my friends!

So, I was put on the spot recently when a friend reached out and asked me, “What is free will? And how does it work in the body?”

And, as I do when any such question comes in, I got still and asked within.

And here is what came forth to share:

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“There are three qualities by which we can come to know the One.

These three qualities are Truth, Beauty, and Love.

These things cannot be defined, but they can be experienced.

In the human journey, they correspond to the active qualities of freedom, power, and purpose.

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Freedom comes through perception. The more our perception is aligned with the Truth, the more freedom we reclaim.

Before we reclaim our freedom, our perception is conditioned and programmed to view the world in certain ways. To respond to the world in certain prescribed ways.

We reclaim freedom by releasing our old stories, clearing old emotional charge, and unlocking our programmed perception.

By aligning with Truth.

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Power is another word for will.

We are all expressions of the will of the One, the creative power of Being.

And, whenever we apply our will in the world, we are acting as an agent of creative power.

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The right use of our creative power is to align with beauty, and to share this beauty with the world.

To walk in beauty is to align our will with the will of the One.

The will lives in the sacral chakra and is linked to the body.

The Truth is accessible to us from the 3rd eye, the 6th chakra.

And our relationship to beauty resides in the heart, in the center of 1:1 connection with all Beings in Creation.

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When we are young children, we have free will.

But we get hurt and learn to close off from the light of the One.

We learn to behave in certain channels that offer validation and confirmation from our parents and peers.

And, as we do, we become programmed to perceive and act in certain ways.

We give away our free will to our programming and conditioning.

So, a huge part of the soul's journey is learning how to reclaim this free will.

Learning to review and rewrite our relationship with ideas and old emotions, so that we become once more the author of our story, rather than a character trapped within it.

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Now, it is only the first step to reclaim our free will.

The next step is where we figure out what to do with it.

In this phase of the journey, we discover our purpose.

At the core, we all share the same purpose: Love.

But we are each on our own unique journey, so this Love is expressed differently for each of us.

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We show our love by creating, inspiring, standing in service, by celebrating the gifts and blessings we receive in this beautiful journey.

We discover our Love by making our home in the heart, the balance point between power and freedom, the intersection of matter and Spirit.

We have free will because we are expressions of the One.

We have free will to act in alignment with the One, or to act as if we are separate from the One.

This free will allows us to remember our True nature, the One, in our own time and way.

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So, on an active level, many of us DO NOT have free will as adults until we learn to reclaim it.

We potentially have free will, but it's just theory until we Truly have a choice as to how we perceive and respond to the world.

The process of aligning with the will of the One and with the perception of the One, this could be described as the cultivation of soul.

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When we give our free will away, we become very much like machines, although we cannot tell from within.

It always feels as if we are making an active choice.

But if you were to be able to step back and view your life from a distance, you would see that in this state, our perceptions and reactions are predictable and involve very little real choice.

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Whenever we are moved to unconscious reaction, we are moved by our conditioning and programming, and we respond without free will.

Our energy field becomes filled with thought forms and linked emotions. Old stories and the pain we have held on to in connection with them.

The more we allow ourselves to feel these emotions and clear them, the more that we have the opportunity to reclaim our free will, a tiny bit at a time.

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In a really practical way, you have used your will (on subtle levels) to create exactly the life that you are experiencing.

When you have reclaimed your free will, then your life will align on every level with your values and with your conscious awareness of your True nature.

When we have reclaimed our free will, we have the Freedom to consider the situation from different perspectives, and the Power to walk in beauty, aligned with the Highest.

And we then undergo an inner journey where we discover what to do with this freedom, how best to express Love in our lives.

On this journey, we both create our purpose and discover it within us, recognizing that this creation and discovery are two sides of the same coin.”

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I hope you have enjoyed this short exploration.

If you’d like to know more or delve more deeply, let me know in the comments and I will reach out.

Thanks and blessings!