Presentation: The Art of Existential Freedom

Freedom is a fundamental given of human existence and yet it is a rare commodity in a world that cultivates compliance and conformity and that places many obstructions on your daily path. It is often difficult to connect with your capacity for living deliberately rather than carrying on making decisions by default. You may even have lost sight of your ability to figure out what it is that truly matters to you and what you want to do with this one life that belongs to you. We are all limited and determined by so many societal, physical, historical, emotional and practical factors that it is hard to retrieve our purloined liberty. You may have come to believe that there is no such thing as human freedom at all. Sometimes the choices you are forced to keep making in life make you wish you could opt out and hide from the world, to protect your peace. But you know this is not a panacea either. It can be an eye-opening experience to figure out how to recover the art of existential freedom. It is always a joy to start practising it again. As you get better each day at deciding what your time on earth is to be spent on and how you want to live, your courage to do new things will keep growing. This talk will look at some of the ways in which you may liberate yourself so that you can begin to live in a more inspired and enthusiastic way to create a meaningful and worthwhile life. Overcoming the fear of freedom will clear the way to relearning the dance of life.