Recently I came across Harry Browne, "Anti Freedom Traps." Here are some interesting points I would like to highlight and add some commentary to with regards to "Anti-Freedom Traps"

Identity Trap - That you have to be something else than what you are...or what others think you should or ought to be

• This is an interesting point as it highlights our self-definition. Bringing into question the very nature of ourselves here. In popular society there is a lot of emphasis on change...though mostly from a starting and standing point of inferiority and superficiality. This is a key observation and realization - because the very nature of who we are today is so much so a result of our culture. There is indeed a lot of programming to influence and shape the very nature of who we are.

• I open up these points here as self-reflection can be a difficult thing at times. Some personal sharing reflection and history here. I was educated to believe while growing up that if you really wanted to be successful in having a "good" life in this world...It is important to go to university and get a degree...and that generally if you want to be in the top class of people in the world: University is better than College. Obviously this isn't exactly fact but there is many people who are doing quite well for themselves financially as a result of going to university. However there is also many who have gone to university and the "degree" is not functioning as this "golden ticket"...quite the opposite in many instances today...where the quality of education in universities is questionable...and the costs of attendance are quite high, especially in north america.

• Identification can also be regarded as a point of Ego...believing who we are is because of "this aspect or that thing"...we can make our Identity to be whatever we want it to be....but please question the very "Identification process".

Despair Trap - In relation to others...that others won't let you be free

• "Misery loves company" - comes to mind. Despair is closely related with blame. Where we create these false dependencies within our relationships with others....where the very nature of ourselves is compromised within relationships. Again, this is a point of self-honesty.

• Personal reflection example: Spent too many years focusing on others whom i was in relationship with who were in some sort of state of despair...where I in a way self-sabotaged and compromised my best development as a result of distracting myself away from my own personal self-development...putting the bulk of my time and energy into the individuals within my relationships. In a way this has merely been a consequence of not knowing any better...this is a point of Ego...where it's kind of feeding this inequality as a result and consequence of existing within a suppressed kind of living as subsistence....the bare minimum kind of thing.

• Hiding. This is the the thing within relationships of despair...it's a hiding from oneself. Avoiding to actually create responsibility for our individual Life. To take our life by the Horns and actually direct it...Sound it Out. This is why an individual would have all the time in the world to focus on somebody else...because there hiding from their own shit...it's an ego trip to believe you are better than you are. It's compromising.

• The big teaching point here is Self-development...Creation is Work. It's challenging. It's less difficult for me to help someone else, than it is for me to focus on helping myself. Cultivating and crafting mutual benefit relationships is a process in and of itself. It's cool to ask for help and to offer help - though I would be careful of creating relationships for oneself where it becomes a full time job as a sort of distraction and challenge because the real elephant in the room is the resistance towards actually "taking the time for oneself".

Utopia Trap - Need to change the world before you can help yourself....if the world as a whole isn't perfect how can I be OK.

• Getting caught up in the politics of whatever...at the expense of taking the time for oneself. Our effectiveness in sharing our best creativity and ingenuity is a result of ourselves actually effectively valuing ourselves...where we in fact live this self-regard sufficiently and succinctly in a way where we take the time to really give and gift to ourselves our best life.

• Our best abilities to give, start within being Self-Forgiving. It takes effort to create a great standing position.

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