Guilt

Like the picture above guilt can go round and around in our heads and get us nowhere!

We have in our family a formula for the guilt-giving situation ...Humour …
First person says,
" Are you trying to give me a guilt complex?"
Second person says,
"Yes! " Then we laugh at each other, it is an acknowledgement of the manipulating part of our lives that we must not take too seriously . This all depends on the awareness that it is only a bit of "poor me" syndrome - and offence is not taken ... The odd comment of "How old are you now?" Makes for a bit of thought .... with no expectation of reply!

Shouting at the top of your voice ... "Let the bl--dy thing go!!" whilst being very tempting perhaps not ideal [ha ha!! ] 

The Story Of The Peanut
In Indian countries it is a well known fact that to catch a monkey all you have to do is put some peanuts in a pot that has a narrow opening.
The monkey will come along and put his hand into the pot and grasp the peanuts, but with the hand in a fist shape it cannot be withdrawn due to the narrow opening to the jar.
Result: one trapped monkey.
Moral to the story ... to be free we have to ...

LET THE THING GO!

The best thing about spiritualism is the freedom of letting go all the responsibility that belongs to another person. Receiving a thing that does not belong to you is a gift, but when that gift is harmful we need to reject it. Personal responsibility belongs to each and every one of us. And we are the judges of that, nobody else is.

Do you have a different voice for negative and positive? Of course you do. One says, "go on and do it!" when there is a big risk of getting into trouble. The other says, "aha! Trouble ahead, don't do that!" Guilt when it is justified is like a sore place that nags at us, a ‘stone in the shoe’ of our lives. To relieve that kind of guilt making restitution is the key.  

I firmly believe that all negative emotions such as guilt are rooted in fear, when it serves as a positive restraint it’s good, but when guilt becomes a debilitating disharmony it’s time to look into the spiritual aspect and re-evaluate.

Spiritually the positive uncomfortable disharmony comes form our higher selves – our conscience is up and running. Our conscience is the part of us that 'self regulates' the eternal progress, and without it there are problems.

The opposite is true of the negative aspect, it comes from the human ego, the nagging doubt that we are alone and unloved, that we have no rights to expect positive things in our lives, these destructive thoughts are counter productive to progression so definitely not from a spiritual aspect of anyone, and in the ‘olden days’ would be attributed perhaps to the devil.

Taking this into the symbolic, the angel on our shoulder is counterbalanced by the devil on the other side, and sometimes due to conditioning – or just bad habits – when the devil jumps out at us we automatically salute!

This 'internal voice' is the thinking process, for example of deciding what's for lunch etc… some people don’t notice they have this voice, but soon become aware of it in the meditation class.

“Think of nothing at all” might be an instruction, but this is not possible, we would be ‘dead’ if the brain stopped working! Thoughts are a part of us that need to be trained to rest in peaceful repose, relax and let yourself just ‘be’. It takes practice and when all is still the inner voice of calm can be heard. That still small voice from the spiritual you.

The practice of relaxation – the kind that we experience on holiday is a necessary rehabilitation / rejuvenation / reharmonising  / realigning of the spiritual and physical through the mental emotional aspect of the whole, the holistic being, the human and spiritual.

It is letting go!

Not just the guilt, but also all the negative aspects that haunt and daunt us in our everyday lives.

Be the monkey in the story if you prefer, but I like to think that we humanised spirits are better than that!

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