A sense of being denied

Imprisoned will is a sense of being denied, as if existing within a context of opposition – in which will tends to harden in self protection and act callously in self interest. It makes a version of love that serves to work ‘inside the imprisoned sense of life’ – but this love demands the conditions of self-will to be sacrosanct – or it turns instantly to betrayal and hate.

An ongoing sense of limitation can become an accepted set of parameters in which such a separate sense of life is played out – whatever seeming scenario that involves - and these can be more or less dense or confining, as long as it allows a sense of freedom to assert and indulge a private will.

The self imprisoned mind works to keep its fantasies, so as to minimise its awareness of the discomfort of limitation – and wants to believe it is in fact an independent will expressing a wish for freedom. Yet all of what this calls into experience is simply the result of active denial of a shared will – and this consequence is not somewhere down the line as punishment – but instantly - as the perspective of preferring a partial experience of an aspect of life rather than be in, and of, and as; flowing wholeness. Separated experience is got from an imaginitive overlay, set in a largely unconscious opposition to the current movement in the heart.

Opening, for even a moment, to a simple willingness to receive, (without precondition) is an expression of trust – and allows a reconnection at the heart that restores perception to the heart's perspective. From this love grows a willingness to look at the mechanism in mind - while it operates – so that the conditions of freedom and imprisonment become clearly shown. So much of what we believed freedom was in fact the means to keep our mind in darkness. So much of what we believed was failure, limitation or conflict becomes the means by which we are restored to true freedom. The freedom to be that we are – and to accept and express shared will – or the present and spontaneous movement of the heart in trust.

To recognise that we but imprison ourselves is a similar step to an addict acknowledging addiction.
From this acceptance can all else be restored - such as our desire discovers in alignment with the awakened shift that released us from fantasy and moved in us as both the call for love – and the answer.

When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there were many who wore a badge - 'Free Nelson Mandela'. Every time I saw this I would feel the movement in my heart that said "You are free Nelson Mandela". For love waits on welcome and not on time – and I joined with the welcome of his heart by extending a welcome to him.

The result of imprisonment believed can express as loss, bitterness or a self diminishment – from which one then acts out in reaction. Yet to use the opportunity of any kind of experience of imprisonment to learn of the true nature of freedom restores peace, humour and compassion.
Such are the flowing treasures of life and such cannot be taken from a mind – without collaboration from 'the inside'.
Yet such treasures do they serve any purpose to a will determined to remain private, withheld from 'sharing' in justification of its own judgement.

When we have done our time, eternity welcomes its own.
But first restores our use and experience of time to serve the way of the heart.
Thus we can recognize what can be shared – and appreciate the experience of sharing – letting all else fall away of itself. There is much opportunity to learn and share of life eternal – here within the limitation to a world and self-sense of limitation. Not least of which – is that 'I do not want to indulge the experience of limitation as it costs me the appreciation of living truth'.