#FreedomFromWithin

[caesarandthecity]

The Painful Path of Self-Knowledge

Self-knowledge hurts. It breaks you. Turns you inside out. Suddenly, you start seeing the world with different eyes, from a new perspective, in a completely different reality. And this new reality, at first, it hurts. It’s painful. Because it’s not what you want to see, it’s what you need to see. I watched people I loved become the worst versions of themselves, right before my eyes, in the blink of an eye.

Self-knowledge, if you allow it, changes every aspect of your life. And all you need to do is embrace it. Even where you thought there was order, self-knowledge brings chaos, destroys everything, and then rebuilds it all over again, in a solid, authentic way that truly connects with who you are.

Self-knowledge is a dance, an activity, maybe even a hobby. You spend time with it, then step away, only to return and dive deeper. It’s a constant dance. You question everything in your life. Questions and answers arise like a game, and before you know it, superficial issues lead you to dive into something much deeper, something hidden deep in your soul, waiting to be brought to the surface. This journey to bring what’s hidden to the surface is the true "Hero’s Journey." It’s mine, it’s your journey. It comes from deep within the soul, where self-knowledge reveals your true self, your essence, what you really came to be in this world.

And self-knowledge is liberating. Because it gives you such an understanding of yourself that, inevitably, you begin to understand others better. You start noticing energies, feelings, pain, hurt, joy... things that once went unnoticed. It’s not just about seeing, it’s about feeling together. It’s understanding that the emotions someone shows are real and match what they’re expressing, and vice versa. It’s beautiful, but it’s painful. For me, it was devastating because it made me reevaluate all my relationships, and I realized that in all of them, I was being abused.

I had to take action. I had to cut those people out, one by one. Because I learned that where there is abuse, there is no love. Dependence is much more painful than love. I grew up being abused by a family I believed was mine, and I learned that it was never love. It was always abuse. Always. And I had to cut them out, one by one. Along with that, I reevaluated all my friends, my friendships, what I thought was true friendship. And that hurt even more.

I had friends I thought would be forever, friends who were like brothers and sisters, you know? The kind of friends you imagine you’ll carry with you for the rest of your life. But those relationships I had to reassess. And after understanding that I needed to cut them out, I realized I was much happier, complete, and free... alone. I know people are afraid of this. Who wants to reassess a marriage when they know they’re not happy? Who wants to reevaluate their relationship with their parents when they believe they’re perfect, and that they deserve to suffer? Who wants to rethink their job when it gives them status and money, but not happiness? Who wants to face the mirror, knowing they don’t like what they see and do nothing to change it? Who wants to accept their own flaws, their own shadows, bring them to light, work on them, embrace them? Who wants to ask for forgiveness for all they’ve done, and worse, learn to forgive for those apologies that were never received? Who wants to see the lies told right to their face, coming from the ones they love the most?

Self-knowledge is a war you have to fight. But the most interesting thing about this war is that there is only one winner, and that winner is you. In self-knowledge, you don’t lose, nor do you win. You learn. And there’s no other path but to move forward and rise.

A life without self-knowledge is a life not lived. And for those who feel the call, don’t deny it. Just begin the journey.

[artiivik]

Bound by darkness, yet yearning for freedom – a silent struggle between despair and hope.

[irinaaylyarova]

The standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff — it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel. Excerpted from Lincroft, NJ on 10/15/96 Our Love, Esther (and Abraham and Jerry) ------------------------------------------------------------ #abrahamhicksteachings #success #happilyeverafter #takeyourpowerback #universallaw #lawofattractionworks #abundancemindset #abundacia #expansión #receptive #goodvibe #positivestateofmind #mentalworkout #selfdiscipline #spiritualgrowthjourney #evolutionofself #inspirational #gratitudeattitude #freedomfromwithin #lifestyle #actress #actorlife #livelovelaugh #lifestory #spirituallywoke #theedge #третийглаз #проснись #пробуждение #apreciación https://www.instagram.com/p/BzUBAQrnuDO/?igshid=1tkb9jbuj047v

[shasharishi]

⛰GETTING OVER IT⛰ Getting over things, people, relationships is a myth we love to believe in. We often see challenges as mountains we can climb, peak and then release as we descend. Emotions and attachments are not like that. They are more like stars in the galaxy. They hold a certain relationship to each other, and over time planets, stars and constellations shift in their relationship to each other. How we respond to these changes and transitions defines our experience of them. We can’t get over something as though it were a physical object. It is an element of an experience. It is not linear, or really quantifiable, and the relationship between these heavenly bodies shifts according to perspective. This is why there are different types of astrology. They view the sky from a different standpoint. We cannot ‘get over ‘ something, but we can come to a place of acceptance which allows us to let go our attachment to it/them. This element of our experience then integrates itself seamlessly without any need for effort or striving. When we realise that it is not about us per se, but about everything finding its own place and us allowing it to do so, the pressure is off. Move towards, dance, move away. This is the harmony we so admire when we observe it. I have been taught that the process of life is not personal, but our experience of life is very personal (Burgs). When we personalise the integral aspects of the process of life like change, mutability, evolution, we are in resistance to the persistent geometry of the Universe. When we are able to recognise the line between the impersonal process of life and how we tailor our personal experience through perspective, we can really begin to allow ourselves to become a part of the cosmic dance. Perhaps we will even find that our appreciation for it deepens. 📷 @wildlove_yoga #shashaspiritledlife #lifelessons #nonattachment #witchesofinstagram #rainbow #philosophy #constellations #gettingoverit #movingon #selfhealing #mentalhealthawareness #freedomfromwithin #acceptance #selfacceptance #lettinggo #surrender https://www.instagram.com/p/CR97TSLDRg0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nimeaariana]

Creative Development release coming to the blog tomorrow. Just doing a little prep work today to get things lined up. Gonna be share a bit of how I find clarity and a higher purpose when feeling lost and unsure about the way forward. Let’s just say the “fight, flight and freeze” response is real... #thosewhoknowknow 💭 ✍🏻 Click the link in bio to follow the journey. ________ #artistdevelopment #mindmap #creativeprocess #findyourpurpose #discoveryourpotential #freedomfromwithin #spiritualgrowth #creativevisualization #lifebydesign #bloglife (at Crystal Beach, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRD3nQtve6/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nimeaarianastudios]

There’s a feeling in the air, a collective consciousness brewing that’s yearning for reconnection. I can feel it brewing. A summer arriving and new energy is stirring while so many choosing the vibration of uniting. #howareyoufeeling 🖤✨👟 . . #unityconsciousness #collectiveawakening #covid #rebirthing #starseed #spiritual #uprising #freedomfromwithin #collectivereality #choosehappiness #kindness #cocreation #feelgood #spirit #selfdiscovery #journey #knowthyself #lovewhoyouare (at Pelham, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNLmVy4gWUH/?igshid=23ozqaah1lvb

[alyssassoul-blog]

・・・ Fall in love with yourself and your whole world will change. Be responsible for your happiness on every level of your being and in all your bodies and you will never be without. You are not only the most important person in your life but you are also the divine creator of your reality. Set the intention with this blue full moon to be free from within. To love yourself completely and create the life of your dreams for your self. Be all the love you seek. Be your own soul mate and twin flame. Be your own divine masculine and divine feminine. All the power for your happiest life starts and ends with you. Sending infinite love to all always 💙💛💜💚❤️ #RepostSave @twinflamehealing PS: to book a frequency raising energy healing session, please DM or email @Twinflamehealing for details twinflamehealing11@gmail.com #twinflamehealing #dropyourego #soulhealing #selfmastery #loveyourself #ascension #5dimenesionliving #livingin5D #soulmates #twinflames #divinelove #sacredconnection #freedomfromwithin

[consciousnessactivist-blog]

"what have you in these houses? and what is it you guard with fastened doors? have you peace, the quiet urge that reveals your power? have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind? have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?.... or have you only comfort, the lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, then becomes a host, and then a master?" kahlil gibran. with all we possess, how much is possesed for the true benefit of ourselves and how much is feeding an insatiable hunger slowly driving to the point of not enough. becoming a fortress, caging the mind, body and soul in a cage of aesthetic and accumulated stuff. in reality, when you have nothing, you in essence have everything. . . . #kahlilgibran #house #home #knowthyself #revolution #seeyourselfinothers #understanding #transcend #cage #freedom #freedomfromwithin #noamountofstuffwilleverfeedyoursoul

[irinaaylyarova]

We would like you to release the word “achieve” or “earn” from your vocabulary and from your understanding, altogether; and we would like you to replace those words with the word “allow”. You’re wanting to allow your Well-being, not achieve it. It’s not something that you need to earn. All you have to do is decide what it is you would like to experience, and then allow it in order to achieve it. It isn’t something you have to struggle for or try for. You are all worthy beings. You are deserving of this Well-being. Excerpted from Detroit, MI on 7/8/00 Our Love, Esther (and Abraham and Jerry) #abrahamhicks #wayoflife #happilyeverafter #takeyourpowerback #universallaw #lawofattractionworks #abundancemindset #abundacia #expansión #receptive #goodvibe #positivestateofmind #mentalworkout #selfdiscipline #spiritualgrowthjourney #evolutionofself #inspirational #gratitudeattitude #freedomfromwithin #lifestyle #actress #actorlife #livelovelaugh #lifestory #spirituallywoke #theedge #третийглаз #проснись #пробуждение #apreciación https://www.instagram.com/p/B2MiwjVHdrh/?igshid=bfmmdg3ow2ui

[nimeaarianastudios]

By chance, I found my way here. Through practice I am finding patience. #knowwhatittakes ✨☁️🖤 #dreamondreamer #blossoming . . . #childhooddreams #artistoninstagram #abstractart #paperart #acrylic #journeythroughtime #imagination #play #wonder #dream #escape #freedomfromwithin #findyourplace #nimeaariana #daytoday #thepathswetake �� (at In The Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLvJ2Dngx7j/?igshid=1kzyot2bij1ec

[irinaaylyarova]

Complaining about anything holds you in the place of refusing to receive the things you’ve been asking for. Justifying about anything holds you in the place of refusing to let in the very things that you’ve been asking for. Blaming someone holds you in the place of refusing to let in the things that you’ve been asking for. Feeling guilty, feeling angry, it doesn’t matter what you call it; it is a refusal, not a conscious one. You’re asking; you can’t help but ask. The Universe is yielding; it must yield. It’s a big question, folks: why aren’t you letting it in? Excerpted from Los Angeles, CA on 3/10/01 Our Love, Esther (and Abraham and Jerry) ------------------------------------------------------------ Photo cred - @meoshabeanofficial #abrahamhicksteachings #wayoflife #happilyeverafter #takeyourpowerback #universallaw #lawofattractionworks #abundancemindset #abundacia #expansión #receptive #goodvibe #positivestateofmind #mentalworkout #selfdiscipline #spiritualgrowthjourney #evolutionofself #inspirational #gratitudeattitude #freedomfromwithin #lifestyle #actress #actorlife #livelovelaugh #lifestory #spirituallywoke #theedge #третийглаз #проснись #пробуждение #apreciación https://www.instagram.com/p/B0RMBb_HunK/?igshid=l4ozfb3glb5f

[irinaaylyarova]

The one factor that has been unknown by most humans, that is understood by the beasts, is that Well-being truly does abound; and that you are blessed beings who live in an atmosphere of grace; and that unless you are doing something to pinch off the Well-being, it will be yours. Look for the evidence of the Well-being, and be an advocate for Well-being rather than an advocate for getting rid of what does not feel like Well-being. Then little by little by little, your own personal experience begins to take shape in a way that is more satisfying to you. Excerpted from San Francisco, CA on 8/18/01 Our Love, Esther (and Abraham and Jerry) ------------------------------------------------------------ Photo Cred @meoshabeanofficial #abrahamhicksteachings #wayoflife #happilyeverafter #takeyourpowerback #universallaw #lawofattractionworks #abundancemindset #abundacia #expansión #receptive #goodvibe #positivestateofmind #mentalworkout #selfdiscipline #spiritualgrowthjourney #evolutionofself #inspirational #gratitudeattitude #freedomfromwithin #lifestyle #actress #actorlife #livelovelaugh #lifestory #spirituallywoke #theedge #третийглаз #проснись #пробуждение #apreciación https://www.instagram.com/p/B0GxEQunOgx/?igshid=15souv7qi6gsy

[irinaaylyarova]

When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you. Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction on 8/31/08 Our Love, Esther (and Abraham and Jerry) ------------------------------------------------------------ Photo cred - @meoshabeanofficial #abrahamhicksteachings #wayoflife #happilyeverafter #takeyourpowerback #universallaw #lawofattractionworks #abundancemindset #abundacia #expansión #receptive #goodvibe #positivestateofmind #mentalworkout #selfdiscipline #spiritualgrowthjourney #evolutionofself #inspirational #gratitudeattitude #freedomfromwithin #lifestyle #actress #actorlife #livelovelaugh #lifestory #spirituallywoke #theedge #третийглаз #проснись #пробуждение #apreciación https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Bw68yn3H5/?igshid=1pkxi3qyrorgm

[irinaaylyarova]

If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn’t that the point of free will? You get to choose. Excerpted from San Francisco, CA on 7/30/05 Our Love, Esther (and Abraham and Jerry) #abrahamhicksteachings #wayoflife #happilyeverafter #takeyourpowerback #universallaw #lawofattractionworks #abundancemindset #abundacia #expansión #receptive #goodvibe #positivestateofmind #mentalworkout #selfdiscipline #spiritualgrowthjourney #evolutionofself #inspirational #gratitudeattitude #freedomfromwithin #lifestyle #actress #actorlife #livelovelaugh #lifestory #spirituallywoke #theedge #третийглаз #проснись #пробуждение #apreciación https://www.instagram.com/p/B0AEupdHR8V/?igshid=1t9jyi4cu7zhe

[irinaaylyarova]

Ever wonder what life is all about and why we're here? This excerpt gives a good summary, IF you understand. The reason the grandchildren will benefit by the launched rockets that you’ve set forth; is because they’re born with no resistance to the rockets of desires that you’ve launched forth… You’ve seen those little ones on computers? They have no problem with that. They were born with computers in their life; they’re born cable-ready. They’re already up to speed with what you’ve launched into the vibrational future. And that’s one of the reasons that it’s nice when the old ones croak and the new ones come in, because it sort of dilutes the resistance factor that’s going on on this planet. Excerpted from Tarrytown, NY on 5/14/05 Our Love Esther (Abraham and Jerry) #abrahamhicksteachings #wayoflife #happilyeverafter #takeyourpowerback #universallaw #lawofattractionworks #abundancemindset #abundacia #expansión #receptive #goodvibe #positivestateofmind #mentalworkout #selfdiscipline #spiritualgrowthjourney #evolutionofself #inspirational #gratitudeattitude #freedomfromwithin #lifestyle #actress #actorlife #livelovelaugh #lifestory #spirituallywoke #theedge #третийглаз #проснись #пробуждение #apreciación https://www.instagram.com/p/BwuWfNDAMBX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p9lrqtefi3tp