Thank you.

First, to clarify, sorrow and guilt are completely different. Guilt is not an emotion. Guilt is the thought that you have done something wrong or bad, according to belief or judgment. The belief or judgment can come from many different sources, generally other people (family, soceity, friends) but also from our experiences of the past. Guilt is like a gas bubble that pushes against the emotions and makes them hurt. Guilt has been used as behavioral control to keep people in line and to do what others want. Blame and shame are the other side of guilt, but pretty much the same thing.

Sorrow, is a true emotion. It is grief. Grief is love contracted. We feel grief when we’ve made mistakes and when our actions hurt others. We feel grief for many reasons. We feel grief whether or not something is “right or wrong”, it is an expression of love. Expressed, grief returns to love and compassion. Grief is never right or wrong. It is just how we feel about something.

We do not need guilt to tell us what to do or how to behave, think, or feel. In fact, guilt often causes people to do what will cause pain and suffering for everyone involved. When we love our selves and act out of love for our self, it does not always look like it to the people affected by another person’s actions, because we feel what we feel about it. When we hurt, we actually often blame or shame the other person because we don’t like how it feels to hurt or feel sorrow and loss. “Selfish” is also a judgment against loving the self and doing what is right for the individual. We have been taught that loving the self in this way is not OK. The most loving and caring people, who act out of love, instead of guilt, denied fear or rage, will do what is best for themselves as well as give abundantly to others. If we allowed people to make their choices and sit with and accept our own feelings about it, the bigger picture of honoring self and modeling honoring of self gives everyone permission to do what is right in the moment coming from love. The world would be a much more loving place if we allowed each other this freedom.

Read your latest blog entry with interest.

In general I agree with your thoughts but wonder if, at times, “guilt” is not a “healthy” thing. Perhaps guilt is the wrong term but I mean a sense that a person will be sorry if their actions carelessly, selfishly or needlessly cause hurt to others.

I’d be interested in your thoughts on this.

My Path requests one tones the ‘lenses’ in these chakras, and as I dwell on Process Coaching assisting me with my Path, I sense an all-expansive healing there; how will body handle such itself?

But this toning, and by experience, asks for a certain degree of openness of these ‘lenses’. The one extreme is women in their Moontime where they pick up EVERYthing in the air and all around them, so it hasn’t been advisable for this to be taking place in some healing circles with strangers.

Meanwhile, this Moontime allows extrasensory prowess which they can share after such gathering.

I was surprised what I was taught of how much these lenses must tone in or down; close…Anyway, another Path nearby. But an example of too much compassion from the heart area the reader may imagine; samples of not enough or too much responsibility taken on (yet another Inner Star). A certain degree of the lenses helps us maintain a balance; lenses in front and back of each Star Within.
Thank you

blessings
S