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I’m going to ask you one question.
This question, more or less, will help you to honestly assess your real desires, and therefore whether you’re a free spirit or not.
Question 1 – Choose one statement you most resonate with:
- a) I prefer my spirituality to affirm me.
- b) I prefer my spirituality to challenge and deconstruct me.
Take a few moments to seriously consider this question.
(Of course, you can take our free spirit test if you struggle with answering this question and need more variety.)
If you chose (a) you value complacency – and freedom is of secondary importance to you. If you chose (b) you value freedom and are therefore a free spirit.
As spiritual teacher Adyashanti writes,
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
We often think the spiritual path is a feel-good journey – and at the beginning stages that may be true. It’s also fine to use spirituality to affirm your self-identity and find some kind of security. But at the deeper levels, it is a journey towards freedom through self-realization (i.e. enlightenment), and that process is messy, uncomfortable, and challenging.
Ultimately, it’s neither good nor bad whether you’re a free spirit or not. We’re all at different levels of growth, and that’s okay. You don’t HAVE to be a free spirit any more than you don’t have to be a ballet dancer, truck driver, or reiki healer. Different strokes for different folks as they say. Some people need to be comforted and affirmed, others don’t.
Also, if you discover that you don’t have a free spirit essence, I want you to know that a ‘free spirit’ isn’t who you’re naturally born to be, it’s who you BECOME.
Yes, you can choose to become a free spirit.
If you’re starting to discover that comfort and complacency aren’t nourishing your soul any longer, you can absolutely make the decision to live like a free spirit. It will take time, practice, and authentic guidance, but the door is always open to you.
So with that being said, what is a free spirit? Let’s create a formal definition here:
What is a Free Spirit?
A free spirit is a person who desires to be free from all external and internal oppressive forces above all else. The free spirit is by nature a rebel who may appear eccentric, weird or otherworldly to society. They choose to walk a different path in life that empowers them to listen to the voice of their soul, be free from suffering and enslavement, and fulfill their destiny.
Forget the stereotypical image of the bohemian traveler: a free spirit can be a homebody or adventurer, a family person or a loner, an outspoken extrovert or a reflective introvert. Being a free spirit is an ESSENCE, not an external image or label. If you value truth and freedom more than you value comfort and complacency, you’re a free spirit.
Source: https://lonerwolf.com/free-spirit/#h-how-to-know-whether-you-re-a-free-spirit
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I would say we actually are born free, but the moment we get here, we start being taught we're not and we have to participate in a system that is certainly not free. So I would say in line with that, to be free we have to UNlearn all the stuff we were taught and we have to figure out ways to stand up against an unfree system or find ways to go around it. If you look at a barrel of crabs, if one tries to break free and get out, the others will pull him back in. So there's that too.
Thank you, Cristina, for good food for thought. This post of yours reminds me of the attitude of someone I know, whose adage was "I'm so special, nobody understands me".
Enjoying a make belief pretense of sitting in a loge of life's theatre, in that way. Expressing the sadness, and frustration about that "role" by a pride on being different, and provoking those who were perceived as inferior.
Pretending to be a free spirit, on the outside. Now, to me, that's a superb creation of a Nightmerry Go Round, don't you agree?
By the way, one day, this person was lucky enough to fall off the rocking horse , a free spirit at last 🤩