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The Untruth of False Empowerment
What we blame disempowers us
Waiting for someone else to save us does the same. How long will we buy into the story that says someone or something will swoop in and change our circumstances? How long will we blame that someone or something for not showing up?
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How long and how deeply have we distrusted the Source within us?
I once had a mentor who said, “Blame is good.” The recognition of condoned spiritual bypassing rocked my understanding and shook me to my core. Whaaat?! In my experience, shame and blame are the quickest ways to disconnect from our true source essence.
The inference was to place blame outside oneself and keep on keeping on, as the saying goes. Or, perhaps, my understanding at that time was flawed. I’m not sure it matters.
I had spent half a lifetime living the teaching that life is a mirror and everything is a reflection of some part of us. So, really, where was there a need to assign blame?
I saw how the person receiving that advice had tendencies toward self-deprecation and self-condemnation, and this was likely a psychological bolt hole for escaping those tendencies. Every spiritual adolescent needs different tools, after all. Every teacher needs to, at some point…
