FREEDOM (PT2) HOW TO BE FREE FROM SELF PRISON

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Is it possible to keep yourself in prison? If so how can you be free?
Read PT 1 https://steemit.com/nigeria/@sammie5/freedom-pt-1-how-you-can-be-imprisoned-in-yourself-2017919t17358759z

In Kahlil Gibran's poem about freedom he continued and said:

"For you can only be free when you no longer speak of freedom as a goal. And how can you be free unless you break the chains you have fastened around yourself. In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest among theses chains.
If it's a tyrant, it's strong was built within you, If it's a care you will cast off, that care has been chosen by you. And if it's a fear you will drive away the root of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared"

HOW CAN YOU BE FREE FROM THE PRISON OF YOUR THOUGHT?

CHANGE THE CHANNEL.
Have you ever watch a TV station and you don't like what programme they are showing? What do you do in this case?. It is either you switch it off or you change the channel.
This is also applicable to your mind when you want to stop thinking about something you can just switch the thought off or change it. Not like there is an off switch somewhere or a change button you can press, because it's not easy to change what is troubling your mind but you just have to try.
Occupy your mind with other things, don't be stuck on one thought. If you take away your mind from your worries and you don't fill it with other things it's sure coming back to you.

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
You are responsible for your own happiness and only you can make you happy. So when you take responsibility of your own happiness and you think about not your sadness but what makes you happy. You cannot be in prison of your mind. Keep yourself Happy always and leave worries out and surround yourself with positive people. Mind prison waste a lot of our times and we often lose focus but we can just deal with it by not over thinking things.

HOW CAN YOU BE FREE FROM THE PRISON OF YOUR DECISIONS?

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
Your decisions are yours but they can be always influenced by other people. Take responsibility of your life don't let anyone take your decisions for you. Why do you want to be just like him when you can be yourself. Being yourself is all you need and it is enough for you to get through problems. It is good to *have mentors but you only need to carve out yourself from the lessons you learn from them not do exactly what they did.
Never let your decisions be based on what others may think, may say, or may feel about you or influence your decisions.

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