Freedom From Obligatory Energy

[Kadensnga]

Great love to everyone,

I have something to share that I think will enrich others.

After having been through many different cycles in my spiritual walk, each them representing a new plateau of  awareness... For instance: we have the "love everyone" plateau, and the "authenticity plateau', and the "awareness of on-ness plateau", and the "freedom from religious anchors plateau", the "giving and receiving plateau", the "allowing" plateau, the "healthy diet" plateau, the "Bare naked plateau"...

You get the point, many different cycles over many years = many new plateaus of awareness.

After making a list of the ten basic elements I really want in my life, I have recently, with the help of this forum come to a new vantage point, a new realization which makes me feel very advanced indeed, a new plateau (if you will), I feel very good about it, it feels like the highest plateau yet for me.

"The truth about how I should walk upon this earth":

I call it the "freedom from obligatory energy" plateau.

In life there is always something that you "have to do" or are "supposed to do"...

I have recently realized that we create that for ourselves. Sure, it's been beat through my head by a 100 teachers, but I just now "realized" it.

We dont have to do anything we dont want to. Wow!

Obligatory energy in any form can be defined as a: "suc-u-bus". Energy vamp. We create many of the  energy vamps in our own life.

Examples:

We make commitments for ourselves, we choose careers where we have to answer to people, we create co dependent relationships where we have to be overly accountable... we are constantly "obliging ourselves" We create car payments, and house payments... all kinds of stuff... that obliges us to give it energy.

We do this instead of choosing to pay cash.

Don't have cash?

We are "choosing" to trade our time for "not enough cash", instead of choosing "enough cash".

Much anxiety is caused by all the things we are obliged to. I am changing this as of recently:

My new level of freedom will consist of:

1:Designing a business model, which will be revealed by the universe , that requires zero customer interaction, and supplies "enough cash" to achieve what is wanted, and one can out-source almost everything.

Can it be done? We can do anything we set our intention on.

How?

Don't know. All I know is that we can set our intention on anything we want, and create it. Good ideas are our "birth right". We are a bottomless well full of them.

Other changes:

2: Stop "making personal commitments" (other than the one to become free of obligatory energy).

3: Give and receive freely only. Never expect anything from anyone, and never allow anyone to expect anything from you except love. Create freedom in your relationships, design them from conception to not tie you into obligatory energy nor the other, but yet contain alot of love, and free flowing energy.

In a nutshell:

I have recently decided to walk on this earth as a true royal entity, and that being the case there should be nothing I "HAVE TO" do, only what I want to do!

We only regard time because we choose to, not really because we "have to".

All of our doing should be for joy and pleasure, or passion... 

This is freedom to me in this season, realizing that you dont "have to" do anything, and that you can and absolutely DO "choose" everything.

Let us be "free" brothers and sisters.

 Has anyone else experienced this plateau?

It's been many years of "knowing" this but am just now "realizing" finally. The light just went on. Thanks to the help of this family to a large degree.

I am DONE being commanded by my experience, I will now begin to COMMAND it.

All great lions command their life. Darrell for instance and Adrian, come in when they choose to... my friend David doesn't wake up till he wants to , and there can be a whole world full of work going on around him. He gets up and makes a few key moves and says "okay, where do I want to play today"?

What can I participate in that will bring me joy? Let's go!

Why is this important?

Because it helps to end the cycle of highs and lows.

For instance, I created some finances a month ago which enabled me to take a month off and do things like stay up all night on this forum...it was a spiritual high... then the need to oblige myself and create more finances kicked back in, and suddenly my energy is being pulled away from what is wanted again, back to "what is required"... serious let down.

We are not just talking about money by the way, because you can have plenty of that, and your experience still commands you.

Closing statement:

I want to end the cycles of irritation that are caused by coming down from spiritual highs... one way to assist that process is freedom from obligatory energy in ALL forms. So I will hence begin resisting obligatory energy in all forms and creating only freedom, living by "choice in every moment.

Cool huh. This is where the spiritual path gets truly rewarding!


Namaste,
John

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[juliainkc]

Morning John,

I absolutely InJoyed your Divinely Inspired expression here!! Wonderful! Wonderful!

This reminds me of 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand.

'I call it the "freedom from obligatory energy" plateau.'

Indeed.

I am DONE being commanded by my experience, I will now begin to COMMAND it.

I am tickled by your sharing here. My dad taught me this principle as a child. Cash transactions.

My ex-husband's step dad worked for Lloyd's of London Bank, he was a VP of one of their Southern California branches and he told me years ago that the 'powers that be' wanted to shift into a cashless society so they could track the doings of everyone. Power and control with greed as motivation. If they have access to your transactions they can control the 'money' or the Energy flow.

Namaste John.

Much Love to you,

I raise my glass, to our Freedom!

Julia

[zensunni7]

These times have design to them
We are now in a place where our professing beliefs must take us to the state of freedom you and Julia describe. It is no longer enough to jump from one store of enlightenment to the other - following the blind lead the blind.
It is a time for nakedness and solitude of Self in the masses of beliefs and people and state your Self to Self so Source may do the same as you. Slavery requires consent.

[juliainkc]

Amen. And so IT IS Beloved Brother Darrell.

Loving words of Wisdom and InPowerment you are sharing here.

In Divine Love and Harmony,

Julia

[Kadensnga]

I second sister Julia's amen.

"Slavery requires consent".

You cannot make me feel obliged, unless I receive your obligatory energy,and I will not, because I only give freely, and I only receive freely. This is a choice.

I give of myself to live, but not from obligation.

It is the universal law of sowing and reaping which repays the sower, it is not my personal obligation to make sure the get their 10 fold return. Mine is only to give what I give.

Our chosen ways of producing money is not the only way we enslave ourselves. Also to others in relationships. a large percentage of what we do is from a sense of "reciprocity" or obligation...

The universe fulfills these things. It is not our job.

Great Love to you both. Thank you for participating with me on this magnificent subject of "Freedom from obligatory energy".

[Kadensnga]

Dearest Julia,

My mother believes that the government switched us all over to HD tv because they want to view us in our living rooms...

It's difficult for me to believe such things.  Maybe I have a hard time conceiving of "scandal"... I have been a victim of my own optimism more than once though. Controlling us through our "money" is more believable.

Great Love love to you.

[juliainkc]

Hi Beloved John,

My mother believes that the government switched us all over to HD tv because they want to view us in our living rooms...

It's difficult for me to believe such things.  Maybe I have a hard time conceiving of "scandal"... I have been a victim of my own optimism more than once though. Controlling us through our "money" is more believable.

Great Love love to you.

Funny you should mention this!!  I mentioned awhile ago in here to Adrian (sorry, my afs ~ awesome or awful filing system ) about my daughter Sommer working at a Home furnishings store here and that they were ordering warehouses full of HDTV's and the idea your mother speaks of has been shared for a very long while. I recall hearing about this back in the early '80's when deep in the studies of End Times Prophecies. My ex was really into this stuff and a big Sci-Fi buff.

I wouldn't be surprised truly. Fear is what the 'psuedo-thinking powers that be' motivates them. No thanks. I don't need a tv really. I can't remember the last time I watched tv to be honest!!

I'm with you. I prefer to focus on LOVE and peace while remaining aware of these things. Why? Because as these things unfold, I look beyond them to the thoughts that rise saying,' Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.' And I and the Father are ONE. We are yes?

You are very interesting to commune with John! I really do InJoy you my Beloved friend and brother.

InJoy this day,

In Loving Spirit,

Julia

[Kadensnga]

Indeed. I'm with you. I watch very little television, because it's like feeding your mind pure lard and sugar mixed together in bowl with a big soup spoon sticking out of it.

Nope. I will feed my own mind thank you...unless there's a hot chick in a bikini on the screen when I happen to pass by one, I really pay no attention to TV at all (lol), but IF I DID, who cares if someone watches me, they would have alot bigger concerns on their mind than myself if that were possible, in the HIGHEST sense, what power does anyone really have over me or you?

The power to take our life?

Hardly.

LOL... isn't it awesome to realize that?

Love you Julia, I am enjoying you very much.

Waiter...oh waiter... I'll take an order of TOTAL FRICKIN' FREEDOM PLEASE!!!

Yes. "with lots of joy on top. Oh, and HOLD THE OBLIGATORY ENERGY"!!!!

lol. I feel playful today.

Ps. Okay I'll admit I do watch the wiggles from time to time...and I know the words to all their songs....huge fan of dorothy the dinosaur!

Alright darn it, the "tele tubbies" too. You got me.

Great love to all.

[juliainkc]

Hi John,

Indeed. I'm with you. I watch very little television, because it's like feeding your mind pure lard and sugar mixed together in bowl with a big soup spoon sticking out of it.

Yes, hypnotizing. Why be mindful when you can be entertained by living life vicariously through other 'characters'. All the while Real Life is going on right in front of you, while ones sit totally unaware! I am speaking of a constant diet of tv and computering for that matter. Yes, I have been so inclined I digress.

Ah, I see you have met my grand daughter Kiara and been a guinea person to her growing Inspirations to 'try' her hand soul expressing through baking. It's funny John, I was once the quintessential 'Susie Homemaker' back in the day. Not for showing off. It was part of the process of my inner healing bringing me back to my core of building a home on LOVE's intention. A haven, a space where one is warmly welcomed and safe. She is a very imaginative child and goes on her whims. We really try to curb our honest impressions at what she drums up!! I've limited my sampling to a nickel sized portion of baked um, what is this called Kiara? Pardon my off the subject, your thoughts brought this forward. 

Nope. I will feed my own mind thank you...unless there's a hot chick in a bikini on the screen when I happen to pass by one, I really pay no attention to TV at all (lol), but IF I DID, who cares if someone watches me, they would have alot bigger concerns on their mind than myself if that were possible, in the HIGHEST sense, what power does anyone really have over me or you?

Ah Ha! Made ya look yes? And we try to pretend we don't notice these things (resistance) yet like you when passing through and something pops up to distract, I have honed my abilities to keep on moving through (letting it pass or go on through). Been there and done that with my versions of baubles too!! And I agree, so what? It only becomes an issue when we make a big deal out of it and 'care' too much. Focus Julia!! Oh yes, now where was I? Right here. Right!

The power to take our life?

Hardly.

LOL... isn't it awesome to realize that?

I agree, we are the only ones who decide or allow another to take our GOD given Inheritance. We have the ability, the right to sell (spend our allowance) our Birthright for a piece of bread

Love you Julia, I am enjoying you very much.

Waiter...oh waiter... I'll take an order of TOTAL FRICKIN' FREEDOM PLEASE!!!

Yes. "with lots of joy on top. Oh, and HOLD THE OBLIGATORY ENERGY"!!!!

lol. I feel playful today.

Ps. Okay I'll admit I do watch the wiggles from time to time...and I know the words to all their songs....huge fan of dorothy the dinosaur!

Alright darn it, the "tele tubbies" too. You got me.

Great love to all.

And I you John. Do you hear that John? Sounds like the Barney song, 'I love you, you love me ... we're a happy family ...' children are a wonder aren't they?

Thanks for inviting me to lunch!! Oh Waiter!! I'll have what John is having, looks, smells and feels absolutely irresistable,  thank you. I appreciate you.

InJoy this day John and all,

Love to you always in all ways,

Julia

[Kadensnga]

No thread entitled "Freedom From Obligatory Energy" should be without this link:

http://www.ourultimatereality.com/forums/still-learning-not-there-just-yet-t1498.0.html;msg18028#msg18028

[Talker]

Ah yes, a very touchy and tender subject.
Great thread going here.
No desire here to rain on any parade.
Ones word, as is a true handshake, to firm up an agreement,
is an invaluable asset.
In the heat of any given moment, of creating an obligatory situation, one must not do so carelessly, (as mentioned in the mentioned article).
This would apply to all situations, so common sense must prevail.
In the event of a need to break a spoken word of bond, (obligation) there must be a valid offering of 'why' the bonding word, is no longer valid, given to the recipient of that event.
That old saying, 'put your brain in gear before you shift your mouth into gear' still prevails.
Excessively used and recklessly done, (breaking ones word) does cause others to build inner filters, that can be harmful, especially with children.
Promises to children, like 'we will........etc', and carelessly broken
or ignored, will under certain conditions, lead to a confused and hurt child.
With tongue in cheek, adults is a whole new ball game regards 'broken words' and obligations.
Many awkward situations arrive with adults.
Mayhem to lost loves and friendships are common these days
due to it.
Children are hurt by it.
Politicians are famous for it.
Nations have gone to war over it.
Business' close because of it.
People destroy their lives due to it.
Marriages are wrecked by it.
Couples drift apart by it.
Granted, that valid reasons may be present in any given situation.
There may be valid and common sense reasons involved, and difficult to explain.
Granted that some one is going to be hurt.
It does, will and can happen, but should never be used as an ongoing crutch.
It is and can be difficult to apply an explanation, if the other party refuses to participate.
The nub of it is, THINK before taking on an obligation.
Ah yes, some times though, one needs to do that which needs doing.
Much easier and nicer to make love than war.
That said, take a deep breath and have a nice day.
Be Well

[Leila]

I fully agree with Talker's words.

And Love him deeply, infinitely, always, in all ways!   

And everybody here too,

Warm Hugs,

Leila

[Kadensnga]

I agree with Talker as well. This should never be the intention, to feel like one can go around breaking their word recklessly...

However in perfect acceptance of self...perfections imperfections... we realize that sometimes we "need" to go back on our word, because we "DO" at times give it out recklessly.

Many times I have honored my word to my own and even others detriment because I gave it out enthusiastically  (Humanly)  , and later realized that fulfilling the promise would not be even beneficial to the one who the promise was made to.

So great harm can come at times, when we give out our word without enough forthought, and then later we fear standing up to our prerogative of "changing our mind".

I may tell my daughter *when she was younger) "sure you can..."

Because she asks when I am focused on other things and I am not really hearing everything she is saying...then later once I realized her full intention want to say "Hey Korean, I changed my mind, this isnt such a good idea".

"But Dad you gave me your word...isnt your word any good, am I to think that you are an honorable person when you are not keeping your word"

My answer...

"I will just have to deal with you thinking I am dishonorable until you are mature enough to appreciate the reason I changed my mind".

So it becomes a question of this "Which is the lesser of the two evils"?

In a perfect world we give complete forthought to every decision we make, but in our "real world" (definition of perfect being to your discretion) we often make committments that aren't so well thought out, or maybe even based on incomplete information that we thought was complete at the time of committing.

So we must offer ourselves perfect "fore-giveness" in those situations, and understand that sometimes breaking your word is the lesser of the two evils and more honorable, once all the data comes in and we realize that we made a mistake.

Unconditional love for self and all others applies.

However yes, I agree that we shouldnt give out our word carelessly, even if we do it sometimes "ignorantly".

Namaste.

[juliainkc]

Hi Beloved Talker and All,

Yes, this is a two-edged sword common sense idea and contains words to the wise. The essence of what is shared in this article would from my reading it, prevent such things from happening in the first place truly. However, I am not trying to argue with you here and while I do understand what you are saying, there is another side to this.

Our actions matching our yes's and your no's. And honestly? 'Maybe' doesn't cut it folks, that is a soft way of delaying, how often have you said maybe and it really meant no? Do or don't do. Now there is nothing 'wrong' with saying this isn't working for me right now to do this. Or I cannot give you what you need from me right now.

Over obligation tends to come from a noone else can do this but me mentality. Control issues at heart is revealed in ones sense of over-responsibility.  And their are ones who will gladly latch on to another taking over their responsibilies.

Saying no is Love as well as yes is, if this is how you truly feel about something. We do know how we really feel, yet we are more afraid of what others will think about us than taking time to know about what we think about our Self.

When articles like these show up, I can see what is touching ones in the sharing of them. In this case, it comes to a feeling based on past experience which is what we do so often. And this is what I have been consistently shown to let go to. Base your experience in this moment of now. You won't lose all your past experience as in the gold. Just the what no longer is useful.

I can hear ones saying, but what about young children, the elderly and infirmed? Common sense folks truly. And I will add something controversial here. When you have someone that is infirmed and is very abusive towards you and your being around them tears you down constantly, well, as harsh as this seems, you do not have to expose yourself to this. You can make other choices if they refuse to stop their abuse towards you. I am sure that I may get a bit of static here yet I ask you, how is remaining entrenched in this doing any good for them or you? You being there only fuels their 'sickness'. Is this Love? I can hear why yes it is Julia, I am to be a Light for them. Really? Where is their Light? Who is unwilling to reach it? You? You cannot save another. I say this with genuine Love and compassion. Because to see one this way, keeps you both entangled in a very unloving and unhealthy relationship. Give them peace by allowing another whom they have no abuse issues with to assist them and in doing so, you will heal from the destructive nature of this relationship.

The Heart of this article for me can be summed up in your statement here and is shared in this article:

The nub of it is, THINK before taking on an obligation.

This is Divine Order. Because we so often don't think about 'counting the cost' of what we are committing ourself to and then house remains left unbuilt due to this lack of foresight. We realize after coming to our senses usually in the midst of having quickly said yes to something that we really were not speaking from our Heart honestly. We were speaking from our heads arguing against our Heart. It all comes down to personally owning up to our Self. We find ourself carrying another's stuff and becoming over burdened. If we feel over burdened then this 'gift' is revealing that we are taking on something that does not belong to us.

The Heart of the matter is that we most often make decisions emotionally. Truth.  Emotions are not necessarily experienced as High Energy, they can be very subconsciously subtle. Oh if I say no they will not like me, Love me, think I am mean and unloving or unspiritual. Honestly? This article is about putting the responsibility back where it belongs. Each one is responsible for their own actions and emotions. Otherwise we are also giving the idea to our children to be responsible for another's behavior.

While the idea of 'going back' on Ones word may 'seem irresponsible to 'others', it is a wonderful opportunity to unlearn what being responsible genuinely means by standing on solid ground of ones 'convictions'.

It can be summed up into ~ Know Yourself and Live Yourself Authentically. You will then not find yourself in this position. And this will hone your ability to manage your emotions affectively while understanding what you are sensing is the underlying 'need' in another whom may be playing on your emotions and you can then respond in the Highest Vibration of Love.

It's called don't skip the prep work.

This article can be a two-edged sword. On the one hand yes, fulfill your committments by keeping your word, be a person of your word. Many don't know what that means because they do not take the 'time' to know who they are, they are too busy focusing on what others think and say they are. And lessons like these have the ability to show them who they are. And next time, they will go with their Heart and not with their heads. A great lesson to share with our children.

How many parents of adolescent and young adult children have found their child bamboozled by a trickster and had to watch the consequences unfold? Had that child known they could say no and also once involved could go back and say, I cannot fulfill this commitment, this may have taught this child through the lesson itself, that they have the power to choose again.

If we do not give our children a balance here, we may influence them to become what is known as Energy Vampires. It will be someone else's fault if they do not help me do this or be this or make this happen... We have all experienced disappointments in being 'let down' and what happened? Well, you perhaps didn't finish it on your own blaming someone else or you took the bull by the horns, made it happen and found out more of how powerful you really are.

This article was for making another choice. You don't have to keep repeating your patterns folks. You can change your mind. Be transformed by the renewing of your Mind.

And Peace is found in the in between ~ it's a mixed bag, and we see it from what is rising within, We are not stuck by another's actions, only if we believe this. And we have the ability and freewill to change our beliefs by changing our Minds ... lessons learned or unlearned in this one's life. From surrendering to Reconciliation ~

Thank you for listening,

InJoy this day,

Love, Peace and Harmony,

Free to Be,

Julia

[Talker]

Well now Leila, Julia, John and All Sharing Souls,
Thank you all for responding.
Warm hugs, readily accepted, Leila, along with the 'Love, Peace and Harmony' Julia, with the added bonus of John's, Unconditional love.
My cup runneth over.
With a tad more effort this would a syllabus in human nature, with ever so many avenues of approach, that it would easily become a tome in it's own right.
Did make an error of omission in my post.
Ha, should have followed my own advice.
'Put brain in gear before mouth'.
Neglected to mention that 'Much more can be said, but for now, will leave as is'.
Gracefully and informatively, you all have artfully filled in the missing gaps, I was alluding too.

Part of my learning curve here, is not to repeat the prior error.

Much more can be said, but for now, will leave as is.

Pleased and delighted to be part of the 'spoke in the wheel of life experiences'.
Hold on a moment please, ........................
Ah yes, was a message from home, stating ' yes we are One, well expressed'.
Love to All and
Be Well