The freedom to keep balance in life

Our society is very keen on making a clear distinction between right and wrong, and it conveniently ignores the fact that such a judgement is different for different nations, different cultures and different living conditions. We have to be grateful for ‘the state of law’, whereby the rule book, the laws, are written by humans to satisfy the humans who write them. They decide what is right, what is acceptable and what isn’t.

In the natural world, of which the human being is part of, everything also operates according to ‘laws’, natural laws, laws of interactive patterns that are the same throughout the entire universe. This isn’t based on a judgement of right or wrong. No cheetah gets punished for not using the ‘right’ methods to achieve a kill. The cheetah is restricted by the natural law that only allows the animal to reach top speed, its most efficient weapon to reach its intended victim, for 20 or 30 seconds. That is the natural law, the natural restricted framework in which life operates. There is no need for other randomly selected laws to artificially put on top of these natural ones. That won’t improve life, only restrict it, thereby reducing the chances of survival for the organism.

Every living organism has a life that is restricted by its own inner limitations on the one hand and by the pressures of the outside environment on the other. Finding a workable balance at every moment of that specific life is the natural task of a living organism. There is a constant exchange of energetic information between the possibilities of the inner structure of an organism and the changing environment on the outside. The organism has to constantly find a response to the situation that surrounds it. When it achieves this, we call it ‘health’. Health is a balance that the inner world achieves in the outer conditions. And it alters constantly. So what works one moment, may not work the next moment. There is no general ‘healthy’ way of life, but each species has an adaptation to conditions that generally occur. The learned pattern becomes part of the natural response of each specimen within a species.

A healthy way of life for the individual is having the freedom to do what, at any moment in time, is needed to keep his/her balance in life.

The key point to health is personal freedom. The freedom to do what you, as an individual, require in order to keep your life balanced. This is not about what you think you need. Your thoughts are the result of what you have consciously learned and that information has been selectively put into your mind by a system controlled by other human beings. It is called schooling, education, learning what others want you to know. The real life experience of each individual is overridden by information marked ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. This division is a clear mark of human interference. If you want to discover what it is your nature requires then you need to let go of these judgements and follow your intuition, your instinct, if you can still feel what that truly means. Every thought, at this juncture, is a disturbance, a human effort to draw you away from your natural self in the direction of your learned self. Be a ‘good’ citizen. Behave. Do as you are told.

But freedom comes with responsibility. If you want/need the freedom to do what is right for you, then you also need to take responsibility for your own life. You make the decisions – hopefully based on intuition – and you are responsible for the effect that creates in your environment. That is how it works!

In this manner you ‘create’ your own reality, the way life is for you. And when you are ‘the boss’, the buck stops with you. This includes accepting that your decisions have an impact on your environment and when you get ‘blamed’ for those effects, you need to acknowledge that you are, at least partially, responsible for that effect. The entirety of the effect also contains a factor of how your environment chooses to respond to you, but you are responsible for setting it in motion.

Wanting to have freedom needs you to be aware of the responsibilities you are going to be lumbered with and of the need for you to accept those. At the same time it is helpful to realise that you are not responsible for any other life, no matter how much you may care about that life. Don’t claim, or even want to, making decisions for somebody else. Because it would make you responsible for the effect that is being created, while the effect will also largely depend on the attitude and willingness of the other. And you may want to believe that the other person is fully on board with your reasoning and fully support the decision you are making, but it remains an interference in another life. This means that you have denied that person the freedom that you claim for yourself. Be brave enough to allow others the same freedom you know you need in your life. That is real equality! True equality is having the same freedom of decision making. It is not: making the same decisions!

Life doesn’t give ‘rights’. It gives you responsibilities.