Hello world. The following was written 10/14/2017.
Something interesting has been brought into my awareness.
A brother shared, “”Discernment really is the key (to guidance)!” (T. P., ACIM student.) Right, and it requires mastery.”
My response, “What you are stating, is no more than a judgment of what is right and what is wrong. Nothing has ever gone wrong. Everything which happens is for our benefit. Every experience is needed. The assumption you make of discernment is mastery, is a fallacy. Discernment, is no more than recognizing what resonates within one as being the Truth for them. Mastery, is no more than a label given, to an assumed level of understanding one may have of an experience.”
The person who posted this in my group, had blocked me for pointing out their judgments and misconceptions. Blocking does not work in groups. Especially groups the person you blocked, happens to be an admin of. All it shows, is your closed minded inability to accept someone else holds a different view than you do. It shows how YOU are the one in judgment in those moments.
Unfriending and unfollowing someone, is not the same as blocking. Unfriending or unfollowing, is no more than you defining what resonates for you. When a brothers way of being no longer resonates with you, it is healthy to step away and change your own direction to what does resonate for you. Stepping away allows you to be you and them to be as they choose. There is no judgment coming into it, in those moments.
When stepping away from a brother and choosing to go your own way, question yourself on your reasoning. Are you holding a judgment in those moments, of your brothers choices? What is it about their choices, you are finding yourself veering away from? Recognize where your own thoughts and beliefs are in those moments. Question that which you are choosing to do.
Blocking someone who holds a different view than you do, will only enclose YOU into a box of your own making. It imprisons you, so divides you using judgments. There is no need to block anyone for holding a different view than you. If what they share does not resonate with you, you do not have to listen to it, read it or even watch it. You have the ability to keep on moving bye without stopping.
You are the one choosing to look, so take in what your brother is experiencing for themselves. You do not have to agree with it. You do not have to like it. You do not get to judge it. It has nothing to do with you. Keep moving, keep scrolling and stop responding with your judgments of what you think they should or should not be, say and do.
What you believe, is on you. What they believe, is theirs to deal with. The only time blocking is needed, is when a brother is attacking, demeaning or labeling you or another their choices to be, so believe. You are not required to stand there taking a beating for their choices to believe. You are allowed to block them and walk away.
Recognize your own judgmental beliefs in play, in everything you experience and perceive to be happening to you and around you. Recognize the Truth of how you are responsible for what you think you experience, on an emotional, mental, and Spiritual level. Your choices to believe, are what has caused you all of the pain and suffering experienced.
Were you trained to think, believe and perceive the way you do? Yes you were. Did you have a choice in this? Yes you did, even if it seems as if you did not at the time. Much of what you have accepted happened, when you were a child. It is understood, many times we chose what we do for survival. An understanding comes to us, to get the pain and suffering to stop, we must comply and conform in those moments as children. Yet, as an adult, you no longer have this excuse. You now make all the decisions for you. Why continue holding on to what you know, to not be true? No one is coercing you now. In these moments, you get to choose.
Whatever is learned, may be unlearned and let go of. Whatever is no longer needed, can be released. You no longer have to give in, to what no longer resonates for you. You no longer have to accept, another’s dictates to you. In all things you get to choose. No one gets to do this, for you. The responsibility for your choices, is yours and yours solely. No one is to blame, for what you are choosing for you. Consider this aspect in everything you do and this Truth, will become obvious to you. You ARE responsible for YOU.
Blessings on your journeys my brothers. Hugs and love. You are loved. I love you.