Shame and guilt are the lowest vibration emotions and thoughts we can experience.
Shame is the kind of feeling that makes us sick to our stomach. It lands in the solar plexus, the third chakra, because our ego identity feels so profoundly threatened when we’re ashamed.
Some of the most searing emotion I’ve ever felt has lived right there.
These aren’t my issues anymore. But they plagued me for a very long time.
I never imagined I could live without them. I never imagined they could be healed to the point where I simply wouldn’t experience them anymore.
I still get irritated at times. I still get frustrated. That gnarly, gnarly feeling of guilt and shame, though? I’m just not relating to it anymore.
That’s why it matters so much that we tell each other the truth about this work.
This spiritual practice of ACIM is permanently healing.
That’s the beauty of working with the principles of A Course in Miracles. Working with our Higher Holy Spirit Self, standing in genuine willingness to experience divine alchemy, transmutation, the letting go of all that negativity.
We don’t have to percolate in it anymore.
We don’t have to sit and soak in it anymore.
Here’s one of the most important things to know about shame:
No one can shame us unless we agree.
We live in fear of other people shaming us. That fear runs deep and it runs old. But the agreement is ours. Nobody can hand us shame we haven’t already consented to hold.
That’s why I don’t go there anymore. I don’t agree.
What I’m interested in instead is seeing the innocence, the perfection, and the wholeness in everyone, all the time.
It isn’t hard to bring shame to the light. We have to remember to do it.
That’s the part that catches us. Even when we’re feeling so miserable, we still forget. How remarkable is that?
Let’s remember together.
On Saturday, August 8 we’re going deeper together in my Deep Dive Workshop, Why Am I So Hard On Myself? Two and a half hours. We’ll do the heavy lifting together. YES, I’M GIVING MYSELF THIS GIFT Learn more now.
If shame has been living in your body for a long season, my FREE Forgiveness Workshops are a beautiful place to begin. Come as you are. Bring exactly what you’re carrying.
My next FREE Forgiveness Workshops is Saturday August 29. Come as you are, however you can. You don’t have to feel ready. You don’t have to have done any prep work. Your willingness is all that’s required. YES, SAVE MY SPOT powerofloveministry.net/forgive
LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: Let Them Wake Up What if the person who irritates us most is holding the light we’ve been looking for? I’m picking up where I left off in Chapter 13 of A Course in Miracles, and this part turns the whole thing around: we find our own light through the people we give it to. I tell you about the years I was the most judgmental person I knew, when I thought certain people deserved to be punished and I believed I was the one to do the punishing. And I’ll tell you what happened on my thirty-hour trip home from Asheville, and why I never once lost my peace over it. There’s only one requirement, and it isn’t effort.
