{"id":91135,"date":"2016-03-24T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91135"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T17:38:55","slug":"you-are-free-to-be-a-bad-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91135","title":{"rendered":"You Are Free To Be A Bad Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Technique teacher Jennifer Roig-Francoli writes<\/a>: When you really grasp the full significance of this, you will come to realize that you are just as free to go in the \u201cwrong\u201d direction (a direction that is unhelpful and causes suffering) as you are to aim in the \u201cright\u201d direction (a direction that is helpful and relieves suffering).<\/p>\n

This is the reality: you are free to choose to think thoughts that hurt you, and you\u2019re free to do the wrong thing. You\u2019re free to stiffen and tighten your neck. You\u2019re free to collapse and pull down, and you\u2019re free to compress yourself so much that you can\u2019t breathe or play the flute.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re free to make your life more difficult, and you\u2019re free to make yourself progressively less happy. You\u2019re even free to do that to other people.<\/p>\n

At first glance, this may seem obvious to you. And most of us want to be and feel \u201cgood\u201d, and to do the \u201cright\u201d thing. We want to be helpful and healthy and establish good habits that bring happiness to ourselves and others….<\/p>\n

Can you grant yourself the freedom to be bad, go wrong, and mess up? Or do you stop halfway and only give yourself partial freedom, because it\u2019s terrifying to imagine what might happen if you recognized the staggeringly immense freedom that you already have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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