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Am I free?

13 Thursday Apr 2017

Posted by Andi in Advice, Attitude, Freedom, Gratitude, Positivity

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change, Easter, freedom, Passover, Pesach, slavery, space

Happy Easter and a good Pesach to everyone!
As usual, when Pesach (Passover) comes along, so does the conversation about freedom.  During Pesach we discuss what it meant for the Jewish people to be free from slavery in Egypt and we compare it to our lives now.
The question is are we really free?
We may not be actual slaves although many people express that they feel like slaves to their kids, to their partners and to their jobs.  Are we free to spend quality time on our own without limitations?
Are we free because we have a lot of material things or are we slaves to our phones and our possessions (and what it takes to pay off the debts that those possessions create)?
Are we free to express ourselves without being labeled or put into a box by stigma?

We can focus on all the reasons that we are not free or we can learn to appreciate all the reasons that we are free.  So many of us are free from hunger and cold.  We are free to be the person that we want to be if we stop worrying about what everyone thinks of us and we stop worrying about pleasing other people.

We need to create a space to be free.
Whether it is just going outside and taking a deep breath or going for a walk and watching the world go by.
Pause to appreciate what you have.
Celebrate the little things that make your life a bit better (thanks Haagen Dazs salted caramel ice cream).
Remember how far you have come and how truly fabulous you really are – even if nobody can see it and no one acknowledges it.
You are amazingly perfectly imperfect just the way you are!

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Freedom by cleaning

21 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by Andi in Attitude, Positivity

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cleaning, Easter, freedom, letting go, negativity, Passover, spring cleaning

As much as I love and embrace my religion, when it comes to this time of the year – Passover, I seriously question my sanity.
We literally turn our houses upside down, clean every nook and cranny and then change everything in our kitchen for one week. And when it is all over, we change everything back again.
The truth is that I take it totally overboard. Because that is what I do, I like control and order. It makes me happy.
So there I was cleaning away and thinking that while we spend so much time cleaning and getting our houses in order, how much time do we spend getting our souls and our minds in order.
Do we ever do anything to cleanse our souls? Mostly we don’t because we are so busy just trying to survive life and get everything done that we forget about nurturing ourselves, we forget about the simple things that make us happy.
We forget to throw away all the negativity and all the hurt that we carry with us wherever life takes us.
We tend to wait until we reach some kind of crisis before we wake up and say, oh! I should have done something for me. Or I should have nurtured myself rather than pushed myself to a point of burn out.
Just like I waited way too long to defrost my freezer and last night I had to contend with huge chunks of ice (which shouldn’t really bother an ice skater should it?), if you wait too long before clearing out your mind of that build up of negativity, you are going to have deal with the huge build up of issues and it is going to take much longer to “defrost”

So whether you are celebrating the festival of Passover, which represents freedom or Easter, full of the joys of “spring”, or you find any other reason to celebrate, choose to take some time for “cleaning out”.
Let go, feel free and start to move forwards with a new attitude!
You have so much more to offer yourself if you allow it!

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