The theme and focus of this chapter is taking a look at how we become trapped in patterns of wanting – constantly seeking external validation, possessions, and acceptance to feel complete.

The offering here reveals how these very longings end up owning us through our fears and attachments. We are reminded of a fundamental truth we often forget: we already are whole and complete just as we are. We’re reminded that true liberation comes not from acquiring more, but from releasing our attachments to external belongings and recognizing that we already belong to something greater: the Divine.

Through this process, we can learn how to become free from the servitude of longing – which we discussed in the previous chapter. We become free from waiting for something outside ourselves to make us feel whole.

This is The Liberation of Longing.

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OTHER EPISODES IN THIS SERIES

🎧 Ep. 1—Introduction: The Freedom Transmissions Series

🎧 Ep. 2—I AM Yeshua

🎧 Ep. 3 —The Three Veils and Seven Imbalances of the Mind, Part 1The Freedom Transmissions Series

🎧 Ep. 4—The Three Veils and Seven Imbalances of the Mind, Part 2

🎧 Ep. 5—The Chambers of the Sacred Heart

🎧 Ep. 6—The Thread and Stitching of the Dreaming, Part 1

🎧 Ep. 7—The Thread and Stitching of the Dreaming, Part 1

🎧 Ep. 8—Shades of Hope

🎧 Ep. 9—Sacred Seeds

🎧 Ep. 10—The Servitude of Longing

🎧Carissa Schumacher Interview, Interview #1—Part 1

🎧Carissa Schumacher Interview, Interview #1—Part 2

🎧Carissa Schumacher Interview #2—Part 1

🎧Carissa Schumacher Interview #2—Part 2

🎧Carissa Schumacher: Yeshua, Creating Sacred Spaces, and Holding the Light

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Hold the Light podcast aims to support and guide lifelong learners and light holders in deepening their connection to personal and spiritual growth. By providing a mix of information, application, and transformation, this show equips people with the tools and inspiration that can help expand and evolve their lives.

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* Co-producer and audio mixer/sound guru: Jonathan Grossman

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Everything I talk about here on the podcast in this series is not a representation of Carissa or The Freedom Transmissions. I am reflecting upon the book from my own lens. I share only my own thoughts, learnings, and ideas.

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The Liberation of Longing from Transmission 3: Belonging found in Part Two: The Freedom Transmissions, Pages 162-171

In this chapter of The Freedom Transmissions, we’re reminded that true liberation comes not from acquiring more, but from releasing our attachments to external belongings and recognizing that we already belong to something greater: the Divine.

WHAT TO FOCUS ON THIS WEEK

📖Read or re-read The Freedom of Being found in Part Two: The Freedom Transmissions under Transmission 3: Belonging, pages 172-194

🎧In the audiobook, listen to The Freedom of Being found under Transmission 3: Belonging.

There is a meditation to listen to at the end of this chapter.

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