GUILT and SHAME

GUILT
SHAME

These are choices. And you may describe them as feelings or as illusions, or whatever fits your perspective.

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
-Jim Morrison




Once the feeling of shame undertakes you, you begin to lose control of and sense of responsibility for yourself. Now, this experience can easily snowball into more of itself, which is why it is so dangerous. If we step into the present moment, we realize that it is we ourselves who create and perpetuate such feelings. IMO, we must get to the ROOT of it in order to free it, set it free, let ourselves heal, breathe, and relax into beingness.
No matter what you've done or your mind THINKS you've done, convincing you how "bad" you are and how you deserve to suffer for your wrongdoings-
I can assure you that (self) forgiveness is the first step to healing, not only yourself, but the entire universe. When we practice non judgement upon ourselves, we loosen the ties to suffering that we had somehow learned to depend upon. Nothing is necessarily wrong with suffering in and of itself, but if its something we claim we don't want, yet we continually experience, then perhaps its worth taking another approach towards our whole situation.
My idea of getting to the root of a problem is hardly of a selfish variety. Rather, we get to the root of the idea of sin in general and perhaps how it relates to our society's perpetuation of the righteous individual. Needless to say most all religious doctrines are practiced in complete hypocrisy,
there has been a great, deep, penetration of the idea of sin and morality into our minds and beings, which we then further adapt and apply to ourselves due to various factors within our own circles.
Wake up and recognize the patterns ! And catch yourself before you judge another again.

To be continued...

Feeling like I'm straying away from HD for now..  In flow

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