Yesterday, was the 4th of July celebration for those of us living in the United States and many did not feel like celebrating, feeling the current administration is taking away some of hard fought liberties. I was one of them.
Later in the morning, I attended a yoga class where the theme of independence came up for the class. He mentioned the conflict of our day – celebrate independence day or not despite all current conflicts. The one thing he did bring to my attention was the dichotomy we currently live in which many of us label good or bad.
He likened it to our breath. We can’t have the inhale without the exhale. We can’t have peace without chaos. We can’t celebrate freedom if we don’t understand the concept of being a prisoner or enslaved, and in many cases in our life, we are both free and enslaved.
My latest work in progress is a romance (or romantic comedy depending on if one enjoys banter between the genders). The one thing that occurred to me in the early stages of the book is freedom is the one thing both men and women look for in love, relationships and intimacy.
Freedom, yes, in romance. And when say freedom in relationships, I am not referring to infidelity. This lack of freedom in love and intimacy is what I believe pushes people to be unfaithful. It is the basic premise, we all want to be loved fully and unconditionally for who and what we are. We all want freedom to love whom we wish. We desire to be independent of society constraints. Many want to be loved without having to be enslaved by stereotypes. It is the core of our humanness, to simply be loved. When we feel we are not loved for ourselves, we seek another one to love the part of us that is unloved.
Perhaps this is the main issues with our fear of the demise of our freedoms. Many have forgotten how to love unconditionally, instead only with condition. We forgot to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, or perhaps we have lost the love for ourselves.
Because we are not truly liberated in our hearts and minds, we cling to outdated ideologies, self-righteousness truths and silly notions of perfection. We have not learned to live and let go, because we are still holding onto what enslaves us.
Independence starts with each of us. We have the power to free ourselves and even the world we live, but it starts with self-emancipation of all that confines us and ironically it starts with a silly little thing called love.
Later in the morning, I attended a yoga class where the theme of independence came up for the class. He mentioned the conflict of our day – celebrate independence day or not despite all current conflicts. The one thing he did bring to my attention was the dichotomy we currently live in which many of us label good or bad.
He likened it to our breath. We can’t have the inhale without the exhale. We can’t have peace without chaos. We can’t celebrate freedom if we don’t understand the concept of being a prisoner or enslaved, and in many cases in our life, we are both free and enslaved.
My latest work in progress is a romance (or romantic comedy depending on if one enjoys banter between the genders). The one thing that occurred to me in the early stages of the book is freedom is the one thing both men and women look for in love, relationships and intimacy.
Freedom, yes, in romance. And when say freedom in relationships, I am not referring to infidelity. This lack of freedom in love and intimacy is what I believe pushes people to be unfaithful. It is the basic premise, we all want to be loved fully and unconditionally for who and what we are. We all want freedom to love whom we wish. We desire to be independent of society constraints. Many want to be loved without having to be enslaved by stereotypes. It is the core of our humanness, to simply be loved. When we feel we are not loved for ourselves, we seek another one to love the part of us that is unloved.
Perhaps this is the main issues with our fear of the demise of our freedoms. Many have forgotten how to love unconditionally, instead only with condition. We forgot to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, or perhaps we have lost the love for ourselves.
Because we are not truly liberated in our hearts and minds, we cling to outdated ideologies, self-righteousness truths and silly notions of perfection. We have not learned to live and let go, because we are still holding onto what enslaves us.
Independence starts with each of us. We have the power to free ourselves and even the world we live, but it starts with self-emancipation of all that confines us and ironically it starts with a silly little thing called love.
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