The Freedom Log - The Simple, Most Transformative Practice For My Consciousness Evolution

This will change your life

As I’ve become more open about my interest in consciousness and spirituality, people have increasingly asked me about what my go-to practice is.

If there’s one thing I could recommend, it’s what I call the Freedom Log.

This is a core tool in my book Conscious Accomplishment and because readers seem to be finding a lot of value in it, I wanted to do a break-down here.

How I Discovered The Freedom Log

When I met my teacher nearly 7 years ago, I wondered whether I needed to meditate 8 hours a day or pull a dramatic move like moving to India if I wanted to rapidly evolve my consciousness.

“You can do that, but it’s unnecessary,” she said. “All you need to do is start to notice every time you’re resisting reality as it is. When you do this, you’ll discover who you are.”

I didn’t know what she meant by this at first, but I was excited that I apparently didn’t need to drop out of life if I was going to take this whole consciousness thing seriously.

In the coming months, I began to understand what she meant by the pointing.

Our natural state is calm, relaxed, and open hearted to life as it is. This is how we are before life dumps a bunch of imprinting and conditioning on us as children.

It’s why little kids are so free and often joyful.

To restore and embody this natural essence, we must unlayer all the aspects of our consciousness that are unlike our true nature.

This is more of an excavation of what’s already there, than adding anything.

A lot of people do this by constantly going on meditation or plant medicine retreats. What my teacher was advocating for was that I could use every moment of my everyday life to work on this. That appealed to me.

To do this I was instructed to notice when I was reacting to life unlike my true nature. Practically speaking, this means observing when you’re disturbed, triggered, resisting, or perceiving life with a closed heart.

These moments serve as entry points for you to go inward and examine the unconscious to determine what aspects of your consciousness are causing you to react this way. As you bring these into awareness, you can heal them to move forward in a way that is more aligned to our true nature.

This understanding and practice helps you transform your entire life into a spiritual practice.

• Running late and notice yourself getting stressed…opportunity.

• Someone irritates you on social media…opportunity.

• You judge something your partner is doing…opportunity.

• Your family does something that annoys you…opportunity.

Viewing life this way turns all of life into a rich arena for the evolution of your consciousness.

But to do it effectively, you need to start directing your attention to your reactivity and then use the opportunities life gives you.

When I learned about this, the optimizer in me wanted to take advantage of all the opportunities life was presenting…this too would be a pattern I’d eventually need to work on.

So I created a note on my phone I now call “The Freedom Log” to begin writing these down as they happened.

I call it the freedom log because when your life is driven by automatic reactivity directed by consciousness patterns you didn’t choose, you’re not free! Becoming aware of and healing them is a path towards to true freedom.

Everytime I noticed I was disturbed, I’d take out my phone and write a few words down about what had happened. I’d then take these events into my sessions with my teacher to face and transform them through a process I was taught I now call repatterning.

After a few sessions, I felt comfortable doing repatterning on my own. I didn’t feel like waiting every 2 weeks to use all these opportunities life was giving, so I began facing the events in my freedom log daily. This turned everyday into a mini-retreat and transformed my entire life into an arena for consciousness evolution.

Over time, the freedom log evolved. In the beginning, I was mostly noticing major overt triggers. Maybe something at work would get me flustered. But as my awareness became more refined through working with my response to life each day, I was able to notice more acute reactivity that indicated an unhealthy pattern was activated or my heart was closed. More sublte examples might be noticing a sensation in my body when I opened my bank account, judging someone else’s behavior, or the proclivity to pull out my phone when I was bored.

These behaviors may seem normal, but they’re not representative of our divine nature. By noticing them, writing them down, and then turning towards them when you have spaciousness, you can start to understand your source code and re-align it to your true nature. Do this everyday for a year and your life will dramatically transform.

Getting Started With Your Freedom Log

If this resonates with you, I reccomend stopping what you’re doing right now, taking out your phone, and creating a note called Freedom Log.

From here, all you need to do is start writing down a few words to describe the experience each time you’re disturbed. This isn’t hard and doesn’t take a lot of time. Even if you don’t do anything with these experiences, the mere act of pausing to interrupt the pattern will support your awareness. If you have a transformational modality you already like such as IFS, parts work, somatic experiencing etc. you can bring these events into that practice.

If there is one practice I hope people apply from Conscious Accomplishment it is this one. It’s something I still do to this day and the practice only gets richer. It gives me a lot of joy that it seems like people are already putting into it action.

If you want to check out epatterning or go deeper on the nuances of the Freedom Log, check out chapters 3-9 and 22 in my book. I also just recently just recorded some guided meditations on both versions of repatterning here.

Commit to this practice for a week and see what happens. If you experience positive results, keep going and let me know how it goes!

-Scott