| "Ive been well for eight years now, I think Ill be sick for | | | | doing the best you could? Given your resources, age, |
| a few months, and let someone else have all the | | | | beliefs, inner wisdom, upbringing, circumstances? I |
| wellness." | | | | mean, who gets out of the bed in the morning saying |
| Ridiculous, isnt it? You never feel guilty that you are | | | | Hey! How can I really screw this day up as much as |
| well while others are sick, do you? Because you | | | | possible? At each moment in time it is safe to assume |
| understand that you cannot deprive another of an | | | | that all of us are making the best possible decisions |
| energy, an experience. Yet many of us carry around | | | | we can to benefit ourselves, our loved ones, etc |
| some version of guilt or unworthiness not so far away | | | | Do you recognise yourself in any of these themes? |
| from this. | | | | As far as I am concerned, regardless of what you |
| As you know, guilt and unworthiness are some of the | | | | have done (or not done), you are a wonderful human |
| lowest energies we can carry around as human | | | | being, every bit as deserving of abundance in all its |
| beings. They deprive us of our natural sense of | | | | forms from the universe as the baby born next to you |
| deservingness, and prevent the natural flow of the | | | | in the hospital. We are all born with a life, a chance, and |
| worlds abundance in our direction. I speak of true | | | | a spirit. The baggage we pick up along the way, in the |
| abundance such as love, internal peace, spiritual | | | | form of beliefs, emotional trauma, stress, etc will |
| freedom. | | | | attempt to convince you otherwise. But we all came |
| When divorce, death, or tragedy appear in someone | | | | from the same place. And carrying around a whole |
| elses life, do you jump quickly to blame them for their | | | | other person or event on your shoulders isnt going to |
| misfortune? Well, self-blame is no better than blaming | | | | benefit you or anyone else. Its just not useful. |
| someone else. | | | | You can choose peace instead of where you are at. |
| May I offer some advice? | | | | You can choose to be happy rather than right. You |
| - You can never be hungry enough to feed one single | | | | can choose to reconsider the decision you made |
| starving child. | | | | about yourself when it happened. |
| - You can never be angry enough to change what | | | | All of this reminds me of a wonderful story I want to |
| happened. | | | | share with you. |
| - You can never be sorry enough to give up your | | | | A man visited a friend who was terminally ill and dying. |
| innocence, deservingness, and right to abundance. | | | | He tried to comfort her, but it seemed hopeless. |
| Likewise you can never be poor enough to help the | | | | Im lost, she said. Ive ruined my life and every life |
| impoverished thrive. It is ONLY in your thriving that you | | | | around me. Im headed for Hell. There is no hope for |
| have enough of ANYTHING to offer ANYONE. So | | | | me. |
| why not love and respect yourself anyway, | | | | Who is that? the man asked, pointing to a framed |
| regardless, and without judgement. | | | | picture of a pretty girl on the womans dresser. |
| If your self-love tank is running low, and you are still | | | | The woman brightened. Shes my daughterthe one |
| giving freely of yourself or your energy to others, you | | | | beautiful thing in my life. |
| HAVE NO BUSINESS DOING SO, and are only | | | | Would you help her if she was in trouble? Would you |
| requesting the universe to supply you with future | | | | still love her, no matter what? |
| resentment, anger, or frustration. It is one of the fastest | | | | Of course I would! the woman exclaimed. Why would |
| routes to the emotional poorhouse, and not the way to | | | | you even ask such a question? |
| help anyone. Taking on too much simply reinforces | | | | Because I want you to understand, explained her |
| your own opinion that YOU are not deserving of time, | | | | friend, that God has a picture of you on His dresser. |
| energy, freedom, peace etc, and becomes a template | | | | And if, after all this, you are still being hard on yourself, |
| for your own future behaviour. | | | | remember... even a broken clock is right twice a day. |
| If you feel guilty about a specific event, were you | | | | Just helping. |