Our freedom to take actions can be gravely limited by outside circumstances and often requires us to make the most of the few opportunities available to us.
These external limits on our freedom can motivate us to take liberating actions but are seldom the cause of grave emotional suffering. Nor are external limitations the most restrictive factor in most of our lives. Our negative legacy emotions are the most pervasive, persistent, and powerful impediments to our freedom. They prevent us from taking advantage of the choices available to us.
Emotional freedom and freedom of choice go hand in hand, and both depend upon becoming as free as possible of guilt, shame, anxiety, and chronic anger or numbness. Real freedom begins within, with our emotional freedom to make rational and loving choices.
Culled from Guilt, Anxiety and Shame by Peter R. Breggin
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah Kehinde
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