Living Free Is Key

 

We all should be free from anxieties, free from stress, free from negative thoughts and free from emotional bondage.

But we are not. We have allowed ourselves to be robbed of our peace and have robbed ourselves of joy. The things we think on, the situations that we fall into have triggered our emotional bondage. We were not created to be in this state but to be free. This isn't our best. No one can take away our right to think and live free. Freedom is a state of mind and our emotions will follow.

We have the choice to live free or not to. The right to live and be free is our choice. That relationship that keeps us from loving who we are isn't freedom, those things that we choose to love that have now wrapped us up in stress, sending our emotions everywhere, isn't freedom. This isn't our best.

 

Thinking free allows us to live free and makes us whole. It allows us to love ourselves - remembering our worth. It's really up to you. Thinking free that is. You can make the decision to let go of the anxieties that are crippling you and you can decide to free yourself from those things and people who keep you stressed out - leaving you with low or no self worth. We were not made to carry this but to walk in the freedom of mind, spirit and emotions and the body will follow. Do you want to be free?

Allow yourself to think on the things that will bring you up and out - to a great and better place with who you are as a woman. Start a new pattern in you this year and this day. You have the right to be free. Let's stop blaming things and people for takings away our right to be free. It's just that - your rights.

No one can take away what they have not given to you first. Freedom wasn't given by man and can't be taken away by him. Man did not create you. Remember your strength and the abilities that have catapulted you to the next level in your life. Let's go to the next step in our personal growth - freeing our thoughts, controlling our emotions and walking in our freedom. It's already yours - you just need to think free. Remember your worth, your accomplishments and your resourcefulness. Decide to be a better you, having a mind that's free and living free will be a benefit that follows. Freedom belongs to you and is released in your thoughts. Living free is the key. We Are Woman!

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Wednesday's "We Are Woman" column is created by Doreen Washington. Doreen resides in Newport News, VA.

She is the author of her newest book, We Are Woman, an inspiring book that speaks to women about their strength, value and victories. Her next book, Trapped - Learning to live free while waiting for romance and marriage, will hit book stores in early 2010.

Doreen is also the Founder and Executive Director of The FACE Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that focuses its resources on assisting single working mothers. While writing is a passion of hers, she also finds time to devote the her local chapter as the president of the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW). You can visit Doreen's blog at www.doreenwashington.blogspot.com.