Gaol-Free Living?

November 1, 2005  

In a recent goalfree.com survey, 1 in 7 Americans said that they either broke the law or did something immoral to help them achieve their goals. And that is only those that ADMIT to doing it. I find it interesting that the old English spelling for “jail” is “gaol” (pronounced the same as the American variant). Maybe my next book should be Gaol-Free Living. Martha Stewart might have benefited from that book!

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  1. Rosario on January 15th, 2006 4:49 pm

    It has recently come to me the existence of the movie “Winged Migration”. I think that it truly gives a glimpse of what is to embody the experience of being “free like a bird”. The completely opposite to feel in jail or “gaologic” (it came this one, although I realise it should be “gaolholic”). Perhaps I am very sensitive -some goal of getting higher value from it is in the making-, but when I watched the video clip I felt touched and started to cry in a way that very much resembled the book “Como agua para chocolate” (I think that is “As water for chocolat” in English). Almost flooding all over…You can enjoy the track in this link, read what filmaker Jacques Perry says about the experience, and check if you -lucky ones- might have a theater nearby to enjoy it.
    http://www.sonyclassics.com/wingedmigration/home.html

    I think that if the feeling of freedom is there, every thing will flow accordingly. So, this movie is to feed on sensorial impressions to enhance the longing and already feeling it is possible -just the music is haunting-.
    In this other link (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0415_040415_songbirdmigration.html), some research on how birds reset their “compasses” for migration. A wonderful metaphor for relying in a compass rather than a map, as Stephen says. The research accumulates score on the idea of birds “tuning into” magnetic fields rather than visual orientation. Ok, I will add here the gender perspective, with very good bases for what I am saying as part of my current research: as men are more visual oriented and women more intuitive or wired for connections, could it be that men are a little bit in disadvantage to tune in the compass of goal-free living in respect to women?. Whatever the answer, don’t get depressed. There are ways to enhance intuitive capacities and the ability to tap into the magnetic field that maintain your goal-free soaring journey within the right coordinates in the route. The heart has much to do with it. That’s why, Stephen, I think that you are very right saying that it is through following our bliss, what we love, that freedom becomes at reach. Perhaps, breaking the law for reaching a goal would be related to an accute state of distrust in what one loves -although most of us go through similar states, somehow-. For those of us who love freedom, either woman or man, nature usually provides many eye-opening and intuitive-opening clues. I am convinced of that by experience. So, let’s soar high together and trust in the wind…