Summer: Embracing the Energy of Freedom
- Sara Cronan
- Jun 7
- 3 min read
Think back to your childhood—do you have a sensory memory of summer? A break from the day-in day-out grind of homework; the exacting schedule run by a school bell?
I can remember stepping off of the school bus each year on that last day, my heart cheering about the choices I now could make for myself. What would I do with all my free time? I could visit friends, ride bikes in the woods and build dirt tracks, or, once I was older, drive to… well, wherever the wind took me.
As adults, many of us lose this feeling. The adult working world is continuous—no built in reprieve from our everyday lives. If we have children, the stress of managing schedules without school as a foundation and figuring out childcare overshadows this energy. How can we embrace the energy of freedom when our everyday work lives continue to chug along untouched by any season?
Would you like to recapture some of that unbridled joy and bring it back into your daily life? It is possible to create more room for you to move with spontaneity and ease! Take a moment to reflect on where you feel trapped/penned in/hands tied. These are places you likely have created many rules and stories about why certain things must be a particular way. “I have to live in this place because it’s where my parents/friends/family live and they need me.” “I have to stay at this job because I have to make this amount of money or I will be homeless.” “I can’t change careers because everyone will expect me to fail and I will.”
While it is a reality of this world that money is the driving force of many of our internal rules, it is also reality that you can choose differently. We tie our own hands with fear of all sorts of things. Fear of what MIGHT be or of what COULD be—of what we SHOULD be. These fear programs are the real chains, the places your brain and emotions have found as ways to keep you safe by limiting what you THINK you can and can’t do.
The first step towards freedom is awareness without judgement. These fear programs can only function in the background. The moment we start to see them and see when they are triggered is the same moment we gain space between it and us.
Within that space is where the chains start to loosen and we can begin to choose differently. Maybe you work in an office, and one morning you think, “Wow, what an amazing day it is outside! I wish I could be outside right now…” but then a program kicks in and you start thinking, “Well I have to do x y and z after work, and oh, I need to get to the grocery store, and oh man, I STILL haven’t done this that or the other. I can’t find time to be outside, forget it.”
You can see how furiously the fear works to keep you always working, always doing, because you think "I am not productive I am worthless/lazy."
So, let's start small:
When you find yourself aware of one of these programs and you have discovered some space, take 5 or 10 minutes of your day to do nothing. Get comfortable, drink water/coffee/tea. Breathe. Step outside and feel the sun kiss your face and the wind caress you. If it’s raining, reach out a hand and let the water wash away some heaviness/fatigue. Take a moment to be exactly where you are. Find your heart center and take a rest.
Just be present with yourself.
As you practice taking those precious few minutes for yourself, you start to feel bolder to start allowing yourself space to be spontaneous and playful. Maybe you will feel called to take a detour in your schedule today. Have a silent dance party, make a wish on a dandelion, drive to your favorite spot in nature and just breathe it all in. Whatever your little heart desires. Why live a life of toil and drudgery? We are meant to explore, play and experience everything this glorious life has to offer! Summer is a season of abundance and light; of possibility and surprise! Let the wind carry you to adventures, however small or miraculous. May all your days be full of summer’s freedom.
Love,
Sara
Find out more about me and the work I do at http://HSHmusicstudio.com
What are you doing July 13th, 2025??
I will be giving my workshop “SoulSong: Music as a Bridge to Spirit” in Rockville, Md along with the rest of The Heart and Soul Alchemists! To learn more about it and get tickets, visit us at
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