What does this phrase embody to you? Does freedom come to mind? Unlimited possibilities?
Wild wonderings? A quick overview of the word unbridled helps to clarify a bit more.
Etymology / Origin – ‘free from restraint’
Dictionary Definition – ‘not controlled or restrained’
What I find interesting is that a bridle is consistently associated with a horse. And to be unbridled infers a horse is not easily controlled or restrained without one. So my thought goes to the fact that horses have been unrestrained for hundreds of years, doing what they are meant to do and having an innate sense of purpose doing it. In part that purpose is undertaken by looking after the herds they are connected with, rearing the foals they birth and roaming and grazing freely to nourish themselves. Horses do not need to be controlled or restrained to do what comes naturally to them.
Think of the possibilities that line of thinking opens up within ourselves. How many times do we have restraints placed upon us over the course of our lives. Often it is the thoughts of others that form who we see ourselves as and how we, in the long term, play our lives out. The control or restraint often begins when lines of thinking do not align. Each personality has a view of how they carry out thoughts and actions, often overlaying those expectations onto others. This often begins in childhood, as parents are doing the best they know how to direct, teach and guide their children. But often the alignment of the parent personality is not the same as the child personality and the communication styles and expectations do not line up, leading to misunderstanding on both sides. This can then continue with others we meet along life’s path, trying to bridle others by our own thinking. Sometimes this misalignment carries on for years and other times the waters calm and misunderstandings quell.
Thinking about what your innate sense of purpose is can help to release the restraint / control / implied version / opinion / etc that others have fitted you with, much like placing a bridle on you. This also releases the connection of expectation between parties as well. You have the power to remove it and be who you truly are; who you always were, guided by your innate sense of purpose. The purpose guided by the things you love to do, the combination of strengths and skills that only you have, the aspirations that you have had in your heart since forever.
What would it feel like to be completely unbridled and free from restraint? Would it open opportunities to possibilities that, up to this point, have remained untapped? Would it feel like standing at the top of a mountain, face to the sun, arms outstretched, the wind blowing away all the old constraints that do not align with where you truly want to go? And where is that? Into the realm of the undiscovered, but always held within us.
