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Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
~ Edmund Burke

Guilt is, simply put, a wrong notion. Guilt is paralyzing, destructive. You think you have done something you shouldn’t have; you hadn’t done something you should have.

Guilt is the false idea that you could have done better; that you had the power to choose. But if you look deeply into it, you will see that you were helpless. There was simply no choice.

There might still be tears and sadness, efforts at reparation might still be needed – but deep down inside, there will be a measure of peace, resting in the knowledge that you were not at fault.

Understanding Guilt

The death of guilt comes with the realization that you could have done nothing else. Your emotional state, your past conditioning, your beliefs and knowledge, your instincts and intuition – they were just too strong. A beach ball, separated from its owner, pulled along by the raging waves – what can it do? It is dragged out, lost at sea. Who can blame it?

Without awareness, we are without control, completely at the mercy of our past.

Relax your body; close your eyes. Think of the last time you felt angry. Place yourself, as best as you can, back in time…

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Feeling a little stressed, short-tempered or on edge? Putting on a few pounds around the middle? Having trouble maintaining your edge at work?

Here’s something that’s going to shock you a bit. For some of you, it’s even going to be a bit of good news. Your stress-inducing job, French-cruller breakfast-smoothies and increasingly sedentary lifestyle might not be entirely to blame.

In fact, a good chunk of your weight gain, moodiness and brain-fog may be due to your sleep habits.

For more than 60-million Americans, there is a relentlessly powerful evil force at work in their lives. Something that, altered just a bit, could help you drop weight, improve your mood, be healthier, live-longer and excel at work…and there’s be nothing to buy. Only something to do…

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What is tolerance?
To give and not take; I rely on my own inner resources and not on outside resources.

How did we become intolerant?
As spiritual beings each of us came here with our own mix of innate qualities and resources. Over time, focusing outwards, we have forgotten these inner treasures. We just notice that we no longer feel so content. Then one day we find that when things are ‘just so’ we once again experience contentment. So now we link ‘experiencing contentment’ to externals being ‘just so.’ The only problem with this though is that people and situations are not going to remain static and ‘just so.’ Now when they aren’t ‘just so’ our peace and happiness go and we begin to begin to nag, boss, contrive and try to control people and situations to make them be as we need them to be so that we can be happy once again. Eventually we loose our tolerance towards people and situations as we find we can’t control them but are dependent on them for knowing contentment.

Becoming tolerant?
How do we make the return journey to fullness, and of knowing that our peace and happiness are independent of externals being ‘just so.’ So that even if ‘W’ isn’t behaving as we would like them to we don’t feel threatened and become intolerant, rather we can remain loving and sympathetic towards them as our happiness isn’t dependent on their behavior. This actually means that now we can see their need and offer real help…

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