I sometimes wonder if primordial communication between human beings was more telepathic than verbal. I also wonder if our emotional bodies were more resonant through energetic experiences than verbal exchanges. From the moment we began to use language, emotions took on a whole different meaning and sensation. One of those emotions that has withstood the test of time is shame. Individual, societal, cultural and collective, shame is both an inner and outer experience which lessens us in both our human and spiritual selves. It is a culmination of unworthiness, rejection, dehumanization, abandonment of one’s true nature…the list can go on. It has been used since the dawn of time to manipulate human consciousness so that individuals and societies can continue to separate themselves from each other. It has been used to desensitize and devalue our Divinity as children of God. Shame fosters an unhealthy ego and compels human beings to seek a power outside of themselves, one that provides a false sense of empowerment and entitlement. This cycle of illusion continues throughout families and cultures, yet people flock to this emotion as though it were a shield of protection. These same shame embodied souls also feel ashamed in engaging with this very emotion that is somehow so familiar and comforting when they are lost. It is such a wound in our world and yet the power it wields is enough to destroy the very foundations we have created as human beings to exist. Emotions will continue to exist long after we are gone, and shame will take on a life of its own in every family. I don’t ask that we destroy this emotion. I don’t ask that we negate its power. I simply ask that we stop utilizing it as a source of empowerment as there are other, more constructive ways to exist. I ask that we seek to understand shame for the medicine it can offer us, without engaging in an internal power struggle where many times we allow shame to win simply because we think it can. I ask that we not allow ourselves to be identified by others’ projections. I ask that we not allow shame to navigate our thoughts, our authenticity, the ways we love and live our lives. I ask that we find the courage to allow our shame to be still in nature, not bound to unworthiness, rejection, or any other feelings it triggers within us. I ask us as a world to think our existence beyond the concept of entitlement which only perpetuates a shame based life when ‘entitlement’ is out of balance emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. There are other ways to feel empowered, achieve empowerment and empower others. There are other ways to feel love and give love. Shame doesn’t have to be a part of the matrix. It can live in the silence of humanity, a healing medicine when appropriate and not a code of honor we live by each day. Freedom awaits each one of us.