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Freedom is an everyday Choice

Sebastian Calmes
2 min readJun 14, 2024

What will you choose?

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When we are children, we don’t think, “Am I free?” Or, “I want to be free.”

We are born free.

Sometimes, as we age, we are taught we are not free — or that freedom itself is not free. Sometimes we learn to think we are not free and we tell ourselves we have to make a certain amount to be free or have a certain life situation to be free.

If a one knows they are free, then they are surely free. They choose freedom, or they choose bondage. Freedom and bondage are both of the mind.

What holds you except yourself?

One must consciously choose freedom… in every moment — a constant remembrance that they are free. Then one will become like a child again, not knowing anything but freedom.

Freedom is scary.

Imagine you’re floating in deep space with nothing above, below, or to the sides of you. Seeing nothing in the distance but being aware of the infinite expanse in all directions. Scary, right?

It takes tremendous courage to live a life of freedom — to face freedom.

Ask yourself these questions:

If you are married, are you free? If you make minimum wage, are you free? If you are fired, are you free? If you make 7 figures, are…

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Sebastian Calmes
Sebastian Calmes

Written by Sebastian Calmes

Intuitive Empowerment Coach. Email sebastiancalmes@gmail.com for session inquiry. Phone, virtual, or in-person (Lexington, KY).

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