Thank You For Being Here (Please Read)

Hi,

Thanks very much for stopping by.

Welcome to my Boundless Abundance (BA) family. I am currently blogging a few different places. This site brings all my other sites together “under one roof” so to speak, serving as an “emergency contact point” should we have any server issues on the self-hosted sites. I hope you will come on by and visit me.

The Main Event

Although it isn’t the main site as in a company site or “Headquarters”…

My “baby” – my main project, and one of spiritual and community significance is I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life (IWGF).

IMHO, along with getting connected in some way to the home site Boundless Abundance Lifestyles (BAL), I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life would be the most important one to visit if you’re strapped for time.

Accompanying this is SpiritFREE1.com (SF1), a static website.  Being the first site in this series, it is the precursor to I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life.  It has a Help in Crisis page.

Sister Sites

The next two sites also relate to I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life, as both relate to soul and spiritual freedom in different ways:

The relationships in our lives are key in experiencing, discovering and developing who we are. In this spirit, BoundlessLove – The Power of Love (BL) is a blog about  Love and Relationships.

Our connection with God and the Divine Flow of Life has the power to rejoice our soul, transform us, propel us through a more enjoyable life, and attract positive experiences and all the things that come along with them. On this foundation, my entire operation, Boundless Abundance, is built.

My company namesake and “headquarters”, Boundless Abundance Lifestyles while being a blog itself, also includes a blog celebrating the Ever-Present Abundance (EPA) of Life. I will post here from time to time.

Trade-Offs

I am very new to blogging. My research, meditations and personal “self-work” for IWannaGetFree.com take up quite a bit of time. So far, my real posts (On IWGF, I like to call them articles) have taken 5-10 hours for the first draft, and they usually receive several tweaks over a period of time before publishing as I “sleep on it”.

For this reason, I don’t post nearly as frequently as a lot of bloggers seem to. Plus, I feel like somehow it takes me longer to actually do and complete things than it takes others anyway.

(I honestly don’t know how some of you post so often. Kudos to you guys, FOR REAL. ::thumbsup:: To be fair to myself, though, I’m also still in a “setup” phase. And perhaps I’ll get faster with time.)

I do hope that you’ll like the content enough and stick around anyway. The Boundless Abundance Lifestyles site brings all the sites together. The What’s New category will make it easier to keep up with the activity of the various sites. On the home page, community page and feeds page, I have included RSS widgets of all my feeds, so you can link easily to one of the sites if something you see interests you.

I’m a spirited, philosophical “thinker”. My mind flies around in the world of ideas and spirit quite a bit. Sometimes, it feels like I see both sides, even multiple angles of just about EVERYTHING (except a few insights about myself I was up until recently totally oblivious to, LOL – such is the nature of the ego). Hopefully this multi-angle view will add some sort of unique value to my IWannaGetFree blog.

At the same time, however, sometimes it also makes it harder for me to “anchor,” choose a stance/decide, and take quick, consistent and concrete action to make it happen, without vacillating. It’s also a challenge for me to keep up with all my ideas and visions.  And to stay motivated with mundane tasks, but fortunately since starting these sites (since this is very important to me), I’ve been doing it. (Must be all the Fire and Air in my natal chart. Not one piece of grounded Earth, I tell you! LOL.)

If you understand anything about Astrology, then you know it’s a science/study of how energies combine and play upon one another. It has been very insightful to me in a practical self-awareness sort of way. …and with four planets (three of which include Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune) in Sagittarius, it’s no wonder I’m all over the place. It’s not a bad thing at all – I like being me – but (along with some other aspects), it does seem to have a few trade-offs at times.

Staying in the Loop

If you like any of the sites, I invite you to join those sites’ communities, either at the sites themselves or here. This way, if I don’t post for a while on a particular blog, I can update you once I’ve posted new content or highlight points of interest. …and/or you might choose to subscribe to a blog’s feed by e-mail. This way, you will receive any/all of that site’s new posts daily. A subscription box can be found on the right sidebar of each site.

In the event of site moves or any long-term server issues, website status updates will be posted on the Site Status Updates page at the home site, Boundless Abundance Lifestyles. In the event that Boundless Abundance Lifestyles is also not functioning, updates will be posted here on this site.

(This SpiritFREE1 Updates site that you are now on evolved as a contingency plan, out of just such an “emergency” with IWannaGetFree going down. Fortunately, I had a number of IWannaGetFree MyBlogLog community members, so I was able to send out a broadcast to let folks know what the deal was and that I was posting updates here.)

Oh, and please check out the Archives at the sites (especially at IWannaGetFree). Just because they become “oldies”, it doesn’t mean they won’t be “goodies”.

A special note on I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life:

I Wanna Get Free – Heal Your Life is a progressive-reasoning piece of work. It is written to be read from the beginning. The top menu items are also important for establishing a foundation about the philosophy of the site.

Inspirational Music for the Soul, Relaxation Music to calm, heal and rejuvenate, and Life-Changing Books for the Spirit and soul can also be found on our Peace, Inspiration and Wisdom page.

Commenting is not enabled on IWannaGetFree partly because I feel the significance and weight and depth of the many of the matters I expect to present would need a forum to facilitate enough clear communication to do them justice, and I’m not sure I will have the time and follow-through to make that kind of commitment.  Therefore IWannaGetFree is more of an organized, searchable, regularly updated website than it is a blog. There’s more about this here.

Also, since IWannaGetFree is a personal work very dear to my heart,  as much as possible, I need each page to communicate exactly what I’m trying to convey. It is not uncommon for me make minor edits and paragraph additions to the articles from time to time, when I think of something I feel may clarify or round it out.  If people were commenting and the text kept being edited, the pages would be a mess.

In addition, many of these ‘articles’ are so long and deal with such personal matters that further discussion on the pages, about abstract spiritual and psychological matters such as IWGF discusses, could go on forever and make the pages way too heavy and unbalanced.

Also, In order to give my best, I would like to keep IWGF rewarding for me to write.  I want to be able to easily and freely flow in sharing and editing my thoughts without having them dissected on each page.  Each post may not always stand very well on it’s own, since the ideas espoused come from a much larger, more integrated, yet sometimes less common viewpoint. That is why IWannaGetFree is a cumulative effort.  Each post helps round out the picture.

The ideas shared on IWGF are the result of several years of internal processing and integrating different personal experiences and philosophies.  Not everything will always follow the standard human logic or the traditional way of believing and doing things. Since some of the concepts are abstract and hard to explain, they are more easily understood over time and through application.

Clearly, people will have different opinions as we all have come through different life experiences, maturation cycles and epiphanies.  While I don’t claim perfection myself, I am a bit concerned that if people don’t quite “get me” right away and are quick to comment or quick to judge, it could hinder the overall intent of the site.  This would be discouraging for me (especially having spent so much time on the articles and having made such an effort to share).

Although I tend to be rather reserved with my deeper thoughts and feelings (because it has been challenging for me to clearly articulate some of the things I see, feel and understand in ways that people will understand me and my intentions), with IWannaGetFree I am making my best effort to come forward and share.

Consequently, I tend to spend a lot of time choosing my words.  (This from someone who NEVER comments on controversial debates, because I often see what both sides are saying, but I can also see why the sides don’t relate very well to where the other side is coming from… so I don’t get involved in the crossfire. So that you understand what a step this is for me: Until this year, I have never commented on any blog, forum or social bookmarking site Period.)

If I had to very thoughtfully respond to every comment regarding abstract, personal, religious or controversial topics [which are generally "taboo" or verboten for blogs anyway], I’d spend an enormous amount of time moderating (perhaps not very well) and not enough time writing… and my responses still might not sufficiently clarify the matter unless I canfind a way to “paint you a picture”.  This is more easily done over time with various posts.

Therefore, at this time IWannaGetFree is a website.  Hopefully, absent the commenting, you will still find value there and want to stick around.  That said, I also need to say that I am open to receiving feedback and questions and I do want to facilitate open communicaton within the readership community. It is for these reasons that we now have Boundless Abundance Lifestyles for community interaction around matters significant to the individual and that therefore also affect the community at large.  Ever-Present Abundance and Boundless Love are also open-comment blogs for reader insight, opinions, experiences and testimonials.

Therefore, I would much rather receive IWGF feedback, questions and comments via the Contact Form, so that I may gather the input, take the time to process them and attempt to clarify or incorporate the answer in new posts.  Thanks for understanding.

Join Our Communities

In closing, I would again like to welcome you to our Boundless Abundance family. If you find the sites interesting enough, I hereby extend an invitation for you to join:

a) the Boundless Abundance Lifestyles community for general updates, and

b) this site’s SpiritFREE1 Updates community on MyBlogLog. This way we can stay connected come what may.

Have a wonderful day, and…

Thank you for being here.

Warm regards,

SpiritFREE1^TM