Shame

Dear Seekers,

In Spoke's More Ease series, we talked about how shame exists in our bodies, and how avoiding being with those sensations prevents us from living the lives we want. I don't know about your shame, but mine makes me want to close my eyes, I don't want to see it, and then it attempts to shut my body down. In that vein, Dr. David Hawkins', MD, PhD, work showed that emotions have measurable energy and can either foster or negate actual cell life. Out of all the emotions, shame has the lowest vibration in the emotional spectrum, preventing us from moving toward closeness and other things we want. And yet, shame is human, we all have it (even if we don't feel it). Shame needs to be revealed (and met with compassion and empathy), but oh my, does it hate to be exposed, it thrives off secrecy and avoidance.