In this module, we’ll investigate freedom as an inner phenomenon — a quality of our consciousness. This freedom is not just a state, but actually a form of intelligence — simultaneously, sweeping and creative. We will look at how the place of inner freedom is also the place of abundance, delight and gratitude. When we seek happiness or freedom without presence, we end up inevitably avoiding something in ourselves — which makes it harder to have real freedom or sustainable joy. Rather than embrace our difficult feelings from a place of lightness and expansiveness, we tend to suppress them, and they come out in even more difficult ways later on. We will also see how genuine freedom and joy are qualities of Mind that have an immediate effect on the heart and the body and are the reliable signs of real awakening. And finally, we’ll explore how the drive to find freedom, fulfilment and happiness gets expressed as the ego pattern of type Seven, along with the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.
In this session, you’ll:
- Learn to recognize the presence of freedom and lightness which are always here in the background of your psyche
- Discover more fully the intelligence of joy and gratitude — real engines of liberation
- Learn some of the psychodynamic issues that tend to dull our sense of joy and to send us off in ultimately frustrating pursuits
- Recognize the secret doorway of abiding — patiently being with what is here now and letting the deeper treasures of reality reveal themselves
- Learn key “wake up calls” for type Seven
- Find tips for interacting more successfully with the type Seven individuals in your life