A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Are you really free?
You might think, why I'm asking such a silly question. Of course I am free. I can eat what I like. I can Sleep where I like. Go places that I like and do all kinds of stuff that I love. At the physical level most of us enjoy our freedom but at the level of mind, most of us are trapped. We imprison ourselves into our own prison. A prison formed by our own beliefs. Due to this we suffer from unnecessary sufferings.
We are constantly making agreements with others and ourselves. An agreement is something that we believe to be true and we accept it and it becomes a part of our belief system. We make thousands of different agreements with others, but the one's that really matter are the agreements we make with ourselves. Making agreements is fine, but we make agreements which make us suffer. We become a host to needless sufferings. If you want joy and fulfillment in your life, then you must have the courage to break the agreements which you make with yourself that are based on fear. You should by breaking such agreements based on fear claim your personal power.
Our willpower is similar to a phone battery, the more it is used, the less power it has. We spend our precious willpower and personal power on making agreements and dissipate our powers by all the agreements we have created, and the result is that we feel powerless. We somehow have the energy to make it through the day.
Our agreements rule our life. If we are ready to change out agreements then we are ready to change our life. There are four very powerful agreements that will help us to break those agreements that are fear based and deplete our energy.
If you adopt these four agreements, they will create enough person power for you to change the entire system of your old agreements.
You will need a strong will in order to adopt The Four Agreements. But if you can begin to live your life with these agreements, the transformation in your life will be amazing. You will see the drama of hell disappear right before your very eyes. Instead of living in a dream of hell, you will be creating a new dream - your personal dream of heaven.
The first agreement
Be Impeccable With Your Word
This is the most important one and also the most difficult one to honour. It sounds very simple, but it is very very powerful.
Why your word? Your word is the power that you have to create. Through the word you express your creative power. Regardless of what language you speak, it is through words you manifest everything. What you dream, what you feel, and what you really are, will all be manifested through the word. Your word is pure magic, and misuse of your word is black magic.
For example, there was a women, who was intelligent and kind. She had a beautiful daughter whom she loved with all her heart. One night she came home from a bad day at work, tired full of emotional tension, and with a terrible headache. She wanted peace and quite, but her daughter was singing and jumping happily. The daughter was unaware of how her mother was feeling, she was in her own world. She was singing so loud that it made her mother's headache even worse, and at a certain moment the mother lost control, she angrily yelled at her, "shut up! You have an ugly voice. Can you just shut up!"
It was not that the little girls voice was ugly but the daughter believed it to be true. She made an agreement with herself that her voice is ugly. As a result, she became shy at school, whenever she was offered an opportunity to sing she would refuse to accept it.
Your words have power which you might not be aware of, you words can have a deep impact on someone's life so always be Impeccable With Your word.
The second agreement
Don't Take Anything Personally
Whatever happens around you, don't take anything personally. If someone says, "Hey, you are stupid." And if you take it personally, you will be a victim to needless sufferings thinking you are stupid, you take it personally because you agree with whatever was said. As soon as you agree, the poison goes through you, and you are trapped in the dream of hell.
Nothing other people do or say is because of you. It is because of themselves, all people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world and we try to impose our world on their world.
The third agreement
Don't Make Assumptions
We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking - we take it personally - then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison with our word. When we make assumptions, we are asking for problems. We make an assumption, and we end up creating a big drama for nothing.
Don't make assumptions, try to perceive things as they actually are and not what you think they are.
The fourth agreement
Always Do Your Best
Under any circumstances, always do your best, no more and no less. Your best will change from hour to hour, place to place and day by day depending on your mood and what you are feeling.
Regardless of the situation, keep doing your best - no more and no less than your best. If you try too hard to do more than your best, you will spend more energy than is needed and in the end your best will not be enough. When you overdo, you deplete you body and go against yourself. If you do less than your best you subject yourself to frustrations, self-judgment, guilt and regrets.
When you do your best you cannot judge yourself. And if you don't judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame and self-punishment.
Always do your best.
If you follow these four agreements, you will be on a path to personal freedom. It might not be easy at first to adopt these agreements but as time passes you will get good at it and it will become a part of your belief system.
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Source: from this idea was borrowed from the book "The Four Agreements" by "Don Miguel Ruiz"
You might think, why I'm asking such a silly question. Of course I am free. I can eat what I like. I can Sleep where I like. Go places that I like and do all kinds of stuff that I love. At the physical level most of us enjoy our freedom but at the level of mind, most of us are trapped. We imprison ourselves into our own prison. A prison formed by our own beliefs. Due to this we suffer from unnecessary sufferings.
We are constantly making agreements with others and ourselves. An agreement is something that we believe to be true and we accept it and it becomes a part of our belief system. We make thousands of different agreements with others, but the one's that really matter are the agreements we make with ourselves. Making agreements is fine, but we make agreements which make us suffer. We become a host to needless sufferings. If you want joy and fulfillment in your life, then you must have the courage to break the agreements which you make with yourself that are based on fear. You should by breaking such agreements based on fear claim your personal power.
Our willpower is similar to a phone battery, the more it is used, the less power it has. We spend our precious willpower and personal power on making agreements and dissipate our powers by all the agreements we have created, and the result is that we feel powerless. We somehow have the energy to make it through the day.
Our agreements rule our life. If we are ready to change out agreements then we are ready to change our life. There are four very powerful agreements that will help us to break those agreements that are fear based and deplete our energy.
If you adopt these four agreements, they will create enough person power for you to change the entire system of your old agreements.
You will need a strong will in order to adopt The Four Agreements. But if you can begin to live your life with these agreements, the transformation in your life will be amazing. You will see the drama of hell disappear right before your very eyes. Instead of living in a dream of hell, you will be creating a new dream - your personal dream of heaven.
The first agreement
Be Impeccable With Your Word
This is the most important one and also the most difficult one to honour. It sounds very simple, but it is very very powerful.
Why your word? Your word is the power that you have to create. Through the word you express your creative power. Regardless of what language you speak, it is through words you manifest everything. What you dream, what you feel, and what you really are, will all be manifested through the word. Your word is pure magic, and misuse of your word is black magic.
For example, there was a women, who was intelligent and kind. She had a beautiful daughter whom she loved with all her heart. One night she came home from a bad day at work, tired full of emotional tension, and with a terrible headache. She wanted peace and quite, but her daughter was singing and jumping happily. The daughter was unaware of how her mother was feeling, she was in her own world. She was singing so loud that it made her mother's headache even worse, and at a certain moment the mother lost control, she angrily yelled at her, "shut up! You have an ugly voice. Can you just shut up!"
It was not that the little girls voice was ugly but the daughter believed it to be true. She made an agreement with herself that her voice is ugly. As a result, she became shy at school, whenever she was offered an opportunity to sing she would refuse to accept it.
Your words have power which you might not be aware of, you words can have a deep impact on someone's life so always be Impeccable With Your word.
The second agreement
Don't Take Anything Personally
Whatever happens around you, don't take anything personally. If someone says, "Hey, you are stupid." And if you take it personally, you will be a victim to needless sufferings thinking you are stupid, you take it personally because you agree with whatever was said. As soon as you agree, the poison goes through you, and you are trapped in the dream of hell.
Nothing other people do or say is because of you. It is because of themselves, all people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world and we try to impose our world on their world.
The third agreement
Don't Make Assumptions
We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking - we take it personally - then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison with our word. When we make assumptions, we are asking for problems. We make an assumption, and we end up creating a big drama for nothing.
Don't make assumptions, try to perceive things as they actually are and not what you think they are.
The fourth agreement
Always Do Your Best
Under any circumstances, always do your best, no more and no less. Your best will change from hour to hour, place to place and day by day depending on your mood and what you are feeling.
Regardless of the situation, keep doing your best - no more and no less than your best. If you try too hard to do more than your best, you will spend more energy than is needed and in the end your best will not be enough. When you overdo, you deplete you body and go against yourself. If you do less than your best you subject yourself to frustrations, self-judgment, guilt and regrets.
When you do your best you cannot judge yourself. And if you don't judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame and self-punishment.
Always do your best.
If you follow these four agreements, you will be on a path to personal freedom. It might not be easy at first to adopt these agreements but as time passes you will get good at it and it will become a part of your belief system.
If you want to stay updated with the latest blog post then hit the follow icon. If you find value in this article then do share it with your friends and family. Comment your views and opinions on this topic in the comment section below.
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Source: from this idea was borrowed from the book "The Four Agreements" by "Don Miguel Ruiz"
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