Let’s face it.

There are certain limitations that are put in place by the government and by society that make it difficult for people to live a truly free and authentic life. These limitations are intended to keep people living within the confines of what is deemed acceptable by an external entity.

In this, people are taught from a young age to give their power away to something outside of themselves. Something outside of them, that apparently knows better and has their best interest in mind.

The innate flaw with this, however, is that the human being never gets the opportunity to truly get to know oneself. To truly understand his own truth. His own calling. His own system of values and beliefs.

Deprogramming of the Soul

Think about it.

From the age of 5, most children are enrolled in public schooling which preaches a standard curriculum and trains students to ask permission for fundamental human necessities like using the restroom or getting a drink of water. This teaches humans from a young age that an authority figure outside of them has the power to control if, and when, they can tend to their biological processes (how dehumanizing).

Every child is born with an innate intelligence and having to ask permission from someone creates a lack of trust in self.

Kids receive messages all the time from teachers and parents alike to not dance, sing, run, talk, etc. when it is not convenient for the adult. What this does is, it teaches the young human that their free, natural-flowing self-expression is unacceptable and must be suppressed. (How ignorant and disrespectful of the free-flowing joyous energy the Creator designed us with).

This then leads to problems with self-expression and connection to the true, authentic self later on in life.

The irony here is that there was never a problem to start with.

Every child knows how to self-express and be themselves. Yet they receive the message that there is something wrong with it, and they are essentially intimidated into believing that they need to suppress their natural self. Before they know it, that authentic self-expression becomes buried and out of reach.

By the age of 13, the adolescent begins looking to his peers for validation and approval. Peers who frankly don’t know any better than him or her. He wants to follow the latest trends and fit in so that he is liked. This phase can catapult into the more intense teenage phase where the teen makes wild choices that he normally would not make, if it were not for the influence of his in-crowd. This separates the teen further from his true, authentic self, the one his childlike self was so in touch with.

Then, by the age of 16-17, most young adults nowadays will have had at least one or two heartbreaks or depressing episodes.

They then start to wonder if life is even worth it. They have an identity crisis. Relationship drama.

Before they know it, they’re in college, where hopefully they have more freedom than they’ve had up until this point in their life, and they are able to connect slightly more with their true self through personal preferences with hobbies and peer groups.

Yet, then again, upon graduation, most of them join a corporation in which they are treated as another number. They face the demands of fitting into the company culture and excelling at their job.

They begin to lose their sense of self.

Most get so engrossed in the corporate cycle and endless demands of the job that they continue becoming more and more disconnected.

The Epiphany … Or Mid-Life Crisis

Yet those who pause and take a moment to zoom out and assess their life up until that point – will realize that it was all a hoax.

A cycle of soul slavery, if you will.

They were indoctrinated from the age of 5 with knowledge that someone else thought they should know.

Now, they are being pressured to abide by the values of a company that controls their sustenance.

Where in this, did the soul have free will?

Where in this, did the soul have the opportunity to sing and shine brightly and choose what it would do on this planet, in this one precious life?

It didn’t. It was too busy surviving and living out someone else’s agenda.

This is the matrix.

Remembrance

Living outside of the matrix requires us to remember our original blueprint as a soul. We were designed to be free, authentic, joyful, creative, resourceful, full of vigor and life.

It requires us to trust in this force of life to sustain us and guide our purpose on Earth.

When collectives of free souls on this planet come together to create new infrastructures and ways of doing things, the whole game can change. The whole matrix can begin to be dismantled. We can reclaim our freedom.

The freedom that is our soul-right.

It all starts within though. With the self.

Are you brave enough to take the journey?

To trust in the One who made you to sustain you?

You were meant for more than survival.

You were meant to make your life into a living masterpiece of your wildest, most authentic self-expression.