By Steve Mills
Too often in spiritual and personal development circles, the unique part of you as an individual is overlooked in the pursuit of grander visions. The special part that makes you “you” is not seen as important, and sometimes it is seen as something to be suppressed.
It is however my belief that you don’t have to become anything more than YOU to become enlightened. The Rebel part of you is as important in your pursuit of enlightenment and happiness as the disciplined, restrained and conformed aspects.
The Rebel part is that spark inside everyone that makes them unique. The part that doesn’t play by the rules , that laughs in the face of danger. It is the essential part that continues to fight when things look grim, the eternal part that knows life is there to be lived.
Some might even call it their spirit, if they are that way inclined.
People who lose this free part of themselves quickly fall into despair, hopelessness, and that too common modern affliction, depression. It is the free rebel inside of us that allows us to break thought the constraints in our lives, and take action instead of passive wishing and thinking.
It allows us to make real and lasting changes in the world, to cut through the traditional ways of doing and seeing, and create a life based on freedom and expression.
So today focus on the Rebel in you, and hear it’s voice. I can guarantee you that it’s message is one well worth listening to.
