Viewing guilt, shame, and fear as protector parts:
Who would we be without using guilt, shame, and fear to keep us in line?
Maybe we would be ourSELVES, but less guilty, ashamed, and fearful 🙃
We assume that without being guilt tripped and shamed into good behavior that we would immediately harm others.
. ..and in the absence of fearing the legal consequences, we would obviously go rob a bank.
Call me crazy, but I actually think most of us would just take a nap!
See the above statements about harming others or stealing are built upon the underlying belief that we are inherently wrong or bad.
Without this belief, none of the others can exist.
Over the past few months, I’ve been really paying attention to how rare it is for people to access emotional neutrality. It’s as if we have no concept of it.
The way it ties into using guilt, shame, and fear as protectors is that in the absence of these, people automatically assume malicious intent.
What are we using those dense emotional states to protect us from? Our own evil nature?
What if that wasn’t a thing?
What if we woke up to the ways in which we’ve bought into the lies about who we are, and the ways we would naturally relate to ourselves and others if we weren’t interfered with from birth, indoctrinated into scarcity mindset, then weaponized against ourselves and each other.
We may just be okay to hang out and not kill each other 🤷♀️
I know we’ve wandered pretty far from the original blueprint, but every once in a while I like to return to it as a reminder of what we may have available to us if we’re willing to question what we’ve been told about who we are; and to reconnect to our own basic innocence and goodness that have been inside of us all along.
More to come 🌺
Anatomy of an Awakening 