Voice of the Spirit

As many of you have received messages in readings with me from your loved ones now in spirit, it clearly demonstrates that yes, they still do exist once they’ve permanently left their physical bodies.  What happens is that the personality survives death and continues on and we see that represented by “Mom” coming through in a reading, possessing many of the exact same qualities she had when she was once here as “Mom.”  It almost feels as if the only difference is that “Mom” isn’t here in a physical body; that’s all — but her energy and essence are how you’ve always known her to be.

Yes, we know that our loved ones are “there for us” and we do experience their presence in our earthly lives at various times and in many ways.  Even though we know that death is not a final ending, but rather, a transition where we do carry on (minus our physical bodies), it still begs several questions:  Where do we go, then?  What do we do?  Is it the same for all of us?

What happens after death is clearly not the same for all of us.  We often hear that everyone sees a tunnel of white light and as they go through it, they see their entire life flash in front of them while meeting with the most overwhelming feeling of unconditional love and peace that could be imagined.  However, that does not happen to everyone.

What does occur for everyone is that at the time of death, the etheric body (the life force) begins its process of disconnecting from the physical body, which takes about three days to complete.   In addition, we always attend our own funeral.  Yes, the one in the casket is standing there in the same room with the people who are mourning. 

Depending on our level of awareness is what dictates what we experience after we die.  There is no absolute reality once we’ve permanently left out physical bodies and what we experience and meet with is largely based on what we expect to happen – and there are countless variables within such expectations.

Those who are religious

Religious people see expectations of Jesus, heaven, hell, purgatory, and/or any form of God they worship, etc.  If one believes that they will meet with Jesus when dying, then that will be their experience.   

Upon passing, Mable, a devout, born again Christian, experienced a bearded Jesus sitting on a throne and looking down at her from high above.  In the distance, she could hear trumpets playing and the voices of angels singing.  Intermingling with the clouds, she saw angels flying who had white wings, while Jesus’ disciples took her by the hand and escorted her through the pearly gates into heaven.

Some will experience purgatory, where they’re not in heaven or hell, but in a murky place of penance so that they can eventually graduate into heaven.  John always believed that he hadn’t been good enough in his lifetime to make it into heaven when he would die, so he believed he would have to do penance in purgatory.  So when he left this world, he entered a place that was dimly lit where he witnessed multitudes on their knees with their heads bowed silently, praying continuously.  John joined in by taking his place beside them and began praying with his head bowed in silence in the same way.

If someone believes they’ll meet with the devil and be banished to hell, that will be their experience.  Brady had been a wild biker who had assaulted people many times throughout his life.  In fact, one time, he beat someone so badly that the person died, even though Brady was never brought to justice for the murder.  Brady would brag to his friends that he had a date with the devil and that when it was his time, he was going straight to hell with all the other sinners.  As he took another swig of Jack Daniels, he used to say that he was going to listen to loud rock n roll and burn in hell’s fire when it was his time to go.

So when he died in a motorcycle accident, he went into a frightening place where he experienced himself being continuously on fire.  He met with the devil and was with the worst of the worst: murderers, child molesters, and rapists who were all moaning and screaming.  Everyone was being tortured by demons, and Brady heard loud rock n roll music continually playing.

Our family and loved ones

Many of you have shared stories with me regarding a loved one who was very ill and near the end of their life, pointing around the room and speaking to people who have already died as if they’re right there with them.  “I see my husband over there,” Aunt Julie says out loud.  “He’s been dead for 30 years, but he’s talking to me right now,” she further asserts.  Doctors may write this off to the fact that Aunt Julie is on a lot of meds and maybe she just isn’t thinking straight.

However, the real reason Aunt Julie says these things are because they were indeed happening.  Loved ones in spirit often reveal themselves to the one who is ill and near the end of their earthy journey in order to make a connection with them and to help prepare them to leave their physical body and peacefully move into spirit.

Generally, family and loved ones are waiting on the other side for us.  When one has died, family and loved ones often do greet them with open arms, and help them to get acclimated to their new life in spirit.  When Aunt Julie finally passed on, it was her husband who was standing right there and greeted her.  Since she had deeply missed him because had been dead for 30 years, her death was a reunion with the only man she ever loved.

As it was for Julie, being greeted in death by those we love can be of great comfort, because we meet with familiar and friendly faces while feeling the reassurance and security that we are ok.  For many, there is the sense that meeting with those family and loved ones is their homecoming reunion.

Virtual reality

Reconnecting with our family and loved ones is an actual reality that many of us experience when we pass on.  However, there are those who decide to create their own virtual reality once they’ve died, where their fantasy literally becomes reality.  Both Mike and Julianna were on their second marriages when they wed in 1983.  Julianna ended up passing in 2002, several years before Mike did in 2005.  When she died, she reconnected with her first husband Paul who she had a wonderful marriage with.  He had been in spirit since 1978. 

Regarding Julianna’s marriage to Mike, it was quite unpleasant for her, even though Mike was just crazy about her.  So when Mike passed, Julianna was not truly there to meet him, but because Mike believed she would be, he created the fantasy that he was reunited with Julianna.  In fact, he lived out that fantasy as being real, where he created a virtual Juilianna who he saw and believed was actually her.  In that virtual reality created by Mike, he and Julianna were together again and blissfully happy. 

You might wonder, “So when does the fantasy actually end?”  That is entirely up to the individual who has created their virtual reality, and it concludes whenever they decide to let it go.  That could be now, or anytime later down the road.

Illness

In a medium reading, spirits often lead off with identifying the illness they died from.  Once in spirit, some shed their illness quickly, while others hold onto it and may not let go. 

Our spiritual teachers may put us to sleep indefinitely on the other side for an extended period of time to rejuvenate and recuperate, especially after a long illness and/or a difficult lifetime.  This helps us to permanently release from the egregious suffering we experienced on earth.  Since time doesn’t exist there in the way it does here on earth, the length of sleep isn’t thought of as hours, days, weeks, etc., but can be as long as is needed to help one release attachment to the illness and suffering of their past.

Theresa was a woman who had battled breast cancer for 10 long hard years and when she finally left this world at the age of 70, she went into an extended sleep cycle.  This rest helped her to disconnect from her past suffering, and prepare for her journey in the spirit.  Her spiritual teachers put her to sleep, watched over her, and were there for Theresa when she needed to awake.

What age are we there?

I’ve heard one psychic claim that everyone becomes 30 on the other side.  Clearly, that is not true.  However we project ourselves as spirits depends on one’s self identification and view of themselves.  It is often based on when we felt the most happy or comfortable in our life back on earth.  If we felt in our prime at age 45, we may decide to see ourselves that way, and therefore, appear and project just like we did at the age of 45, regardless of what age we were when we passed on.

That is how Joanne came through in a reading I gave to her daughter.  Even though Joanne passed at age 82, when she began offering messages to her daughter in our readings, she projected herself to me as a fairly young looking woman, about 45 years old.  She didn’t have grey hair, wasn’t feeble as she was when she died, and wore a flight attendant uniform.  What startled her daughter was that her mother was indeed a flight attendant around the age of 45 and those were the happiest times of her life.  So it made perfect sense that her mother would come through in that way.

Sometimes one of our physical attributes influences how we project ourselves after death  A woman’s grandmother had the most strikingly beautiful red hair on earth, and when she died, she came through in spiritual messages with the same lovely red hair again.

On earth, our age is thought of as being totally written in stone, as based on the linear physical calendar.  However, in spirit, we can choose our age and how we project based on our self identification and view.

Life review/Judgment Day

Most religions teach the concept of a life review or a day of judgment.  Like other religious beliefs, a life review and/or judgment day is something we may experience if we expect to.  If we believe we’ll die and meet with a huge judgment day where everyone is lined up as far as the eye could see with God pointing his finger and sentencing us to purgatory or eternal hell, that can be our experience.

However, a real life review/judgment day doesn’t happen until we are aware that we are in the spirit, as opposed to occurring when we’ve just died.  It is us who decide, along with our spirit guides, when we’re ready.  With a life review, we often go through the repercussions of all of our past thoughts, words, and actions, to see what negative karma we’ve burned off, additional negative karma we’ve created, good karma we’ve manifested and our overall spiritual report card. 

 This is largely based on the impact we have had on others through what we’ve thought, said and done and to what degree we have or haven’t fulfilled our spiritual contracts and missions.  In a real life review, our spiritual teachers will help us to look at things clearly and objectively, from a spiritual perspective.  This is designed to set the stage for our next incarnation and its goals.

Children who have died

When children die, they are well protected and watched our for, as they go to a special place of love and light where they are nurtured, taken care of and guided by spiritual masters and loved ones there.  It is common that through time, children in spirit progress and develop.  That may not occur in strict linear time (like a birthday every twelve months), but there is a definite progression and evolution.  Whenever I’ve channeled a child in a reading who has passed years or decades ago, they come through as older.  They often speak of what they’ve done, as in going to school, getting a degree, and having a purpose where they do work on the other side.

One of my clients had a grandson who passed when he was 13 years old.  When I started picking him up in our readings, it was almost 10 years later and he first came through as a young man about 20 years old.  He indicated that he has was in school studying science. To my client’s surprise, he stated in one of our readings that he had forgiven those who had cause his death, as it was based on a fire that was started through drug induced carelessness.  He was at peace, came through with joy, and had moved on with his life without regret.

What about sudden and unexpected death? 

Sometimes those who have died suddenly and unexpectedly have no idea what has just happened – and they don’t even know they’re dead.   They may perceive that they’re in a bad dream that they don’t know how to get out of or may not have any idea as to what is going on.  This often happens to victims of car crashes, plane crashes and accidents of any kind.  As the death is so sudden and out of the blue, they are often not prepared.  It often takes them being told that they have lost their physical life, to help them get them out of the haze of confusion they’re in and face what has occurred.  This way, they are hopefully able to move forward. 

I know a spiritual master who recalled being taken to a scene of a plane crash while asleep, to inform many there that they had just died.  It was a scene of chaos and confusion, but she was utilized by spirit to deliver these very important messages to those who had just lost their lives to assist in their transition into spirit.

Others who pass this way may be more prepared for transition both subconsciously and/or consciously, and therefore, they can adjust easier.  Some have a sense that they are going to be leaving this world, and in one way or another, they just know.  I had a young client in her early 20’s who was engaged to a man named Peter who told her months before his sudden accidental death, that he knew he was going to be leaving this world soon.

Those who are murdered

Being murdered can be a terribly difficult way to go, as it can be experienced as an unnatural and horrific way to leave this world.  There are those who once murdered, refuse to accept that this has actually happened to them, so they create whatever alternate reality they wish.  It can be as if they’re still in the physical world, driving their car and going to work — until they eventually accept what has occurred.

Some who know clearly that they were murdered feel a tremendous sense of rage and the desire for revenge, and are committed to coming back here and getting even with whoever did this to them.  Even though it is presumed that their spiritual teachers would counsel them to let go of such feelings and find forgiveness, they may or may not be willing to do so.  These grudges can be held onto for as long as one wants to and may actually motivate revengeful actions in future lifetimes.

Many who have died through murder carry a tremendous emotional fear with them in spirit, which they can try and work through over there, but often, it may take reincarnating here (potentially many times) to be able to heal such deep seated terror.   I knew someone who carried an unexplained fear of being murdered his entire life.  There was no plausible reason as to why he would feel this way: no one he knew had ever been murdered, and he had never been physically assaulted or threatened himself.  So he couldn’t figure out why he felt this way. 

When I did a reading for him, it came through from spirit that he had been beheaded in a former lifetime centuries ago, because he was a social outcast at the time.   In his current incarnation, this fear was present so he could spiritually get past it and move beyond this old energy.  Through the awareness that came through in the reading, he was able to understand the reason for his fear and forever put it behind him.

Being the victim of murder puts us in a difficult position of trying to deal with what has happened to us to come terms with that experience in order to move forward.  However, with those who commit heinous crimes such as murdering someone to even mass murderers, the negative karma they’ve created is so incalculable and will take an amount of time to resolve that we as humans can’t even grasp.  Their journey is about atonement versus about learning to cope with what has been done to them, as victims have to do.  This atonement must be completed to include every person who their actions have forever victimized.

What about mass murderers?

Often, those who have committed atrocities against humanity such as dictators and war criminal are restricted in spirit once they’ve died by the higher forces there.  After they’ve passed, they may be isolated and not have access to many others, almost as if they’re in prison.  In spirit, the lords of karma will review how this entity has spiritually evolved who had formerly committed such heinous acts.  This is to determine if it is yet time for them to be allowed back into the physical world, and if so, what portion of their karmic debt that they would bring into the next earthly lifetime.

Eventually, they will have to reincarnate back into the earth plane as we all do.  In their next incarnation, they’ll have the opportunity to begin working off the negative karma they’ve created prior, which could take an uncountable amount of lifetimes to resolve.  When they come back is similar to when someone incarcerated here on earth comes up for a probation hearing from time to time to see if he or she is ready to be released back into society.

Some who commit crimes against humanity get caught in darkness, because they are not at a vibrational state of consciousness to resonate with or be in a place of light and love.  This is based on their consciousness, level of understanding and what they’ve done.  They could expect to go to hell; therefore, they may, or stay earthbound, as they don’t want to move into the spirit world because of the fear of repercussion. 

Suicides

Those who have taken their own life have a very hard time spiritually moving forward, as they often get stuck.  As I’ve channeled many a spirit who has taken their own life, I would describe their reality as not being here (on earth) and also, not being there (in the spirit world).  It’s as if they’re nowhere.  Because of the disconnection they’ve felt, they get stuck in-between worlds. 

I had a client whose brother Sam committed suicide by taking drugs in order to kill himself while wandering through a New York alleyway.  When Sam came through in our readings, I had no idea how he had died, but the first thing I saw was a man drifting around a New York alleyway.  This was 15 years later yet Sam was still there.  He hadn’t progressed at all, because he, like many suicides, simply get stuck.  He was just as lost as he was 15 years prior, and of course, I tried to encourage him to move forward with his journey.

Eventually, those who’ve committed suicide might progress to some degree, but they have a hard time experiencing paradise or joy.  This is not because anyone is preventing them from doing so, but because of the level of consciousness they vibrate to.  Of course, they eventually continue their reincarnation cycle again, and as the Buddhists teach, for every suicide, there are seven lifetimes of atonement one must pay.  Never forget that praying for these spirits does offer them some light when they are ready to see it, which can only help them move forward.

Earthbound spirits

Earth bound spirits are those who for one reason or another, resist moving forward spiritually, because they’re still quite attached to their former earthly existence.  A perfect example of this is someone who was an alcoholic and is still quite attached to the experience of drinking.  In spirit, they may hang around bars on earth to suck and feed off the energy of those who are drinking.  These earthbound spirits attach to that alcohol experience to feel the vicarious thrill of drinking which continues to feed the addiction that they refuse to let go of. 

Some earth bound spirits are just stuck and stubborn.  A man I knew named Joey lived in the house his grandfather once built.  Once Joey’s grandfather passed on, he came back into the house and just stayed there as an earthbound spirit for many years.  Sometimes, granddad even materialized where Joey and his wife would see him.

Instead of moving on into the spirit world, grandpa stayed in this house because it was a place he was comfortable in when he was in the physical world and now that he was dead, he just continued to hang around.  Joey told him, “Grandpa, you don’t belong here anymore so you need to move on.  Go into the light where you belong.”  However, his grandfather refused to listen and just continued to hang around the house.

And just like people in the physical world often live in the past, Joey’s grandfather was doing the same thing once he died.  Regarding time, there is no limit as to how long one would stay earth bound as it can go on indefinitely until they’re ready and willing to move forward with their spiritual journey.

Do spirits help their loved ones here on earth or act as guides?

Yes, they often do.  As many of you can attest to through having readings with me, your loved ones are actively involved in assisting and guiding you from the spirit world.  Messages come through and the support is clearly there, as revealed in so many ways and times.  Guidance and protection for us is offered and it’s our job to receive such help and work with it, as it is truly a Godsend in our lives.

This can be motivated simply by the unconditional love they feel for us, and is demonstrated in the same way someone you love would help you out if they were here on earth.  Also, it can be spiritually motivated, as our loved ones on the other side can see that their support not only helps us to evolve, but helps them to spiritually grow as well.  Why?  Because when both parties benefit, it is truly a win-win situation.

Sometimes it is actually a matter of atonement, as our loved ones feel that they didn’t treat us right and may have even abused us on earth.  If they feel that they created negative karma with us, sometimes they feel compelled to work off bad karma through their efforts to help us in our earthly journey.  I have said to many clients that their loved ones will help them more from the spirit world then they ever would have done while they were here on earth.

Christy was a woman whose father Mack had sexually abused her and treated her badly in other ways, so when he passed in 1990, she was ambivalent about her feelings.  Then, in 2000, during a reading with me, her father came through with a tremendous sense of regret, grief and apology.  He didn’t defend his former actions, but rather, begged for forgiveness.  He promised to make it up to her by being committed to helping his daughter to manifest her dreams.  Christy didn’t hate him, however, she wasn’t sure if she could truly forgive him either, but she agreed to try.

In the years that followed, Mack came through with many startlingly accurate messages in our readings.  In one, he said to his daughter, “Don’t drive on a certain bridge to work tomorrow.”  The next day, a portion of the bridge collapsed at the time she would have been driving on it.  Christy was willing to heed the warning from her dad and simply stayed off the bridge, which may have saved her life.

Months later, Mack told his daughter, “Dump your boyfriend Jerry, as he’s married.  If you dump him now, you’ll meet the man you’re supposed to marry.”  Christy was stunned, but instead of reacting defensively, she looked up this information about Jerry to indeed see if it was true, as marriage is a matter of public record.  To her surprise, the found out that the man she thought was solely hers was indeed a married man.  Of course, she ended things with Jerry immediately, and within a year, she met the man she was supposed to be with.  They are happily married today.

It is more common than you may think for our family and loved ones on the other side to help us as a way of atoning for the hurt they caused us or the lack of support they provided while they were here on earth with us.  Regardless of whether the reasons are based on atonement, spiritual growth and/or unconditional love, it is of great help and reassurance for us to know that guidance, protection, messages, comfort and commitment to our dreams is ever present from our loved ones on the other side.

How long do we stay on the other side before we reincarnate?

There is no strict or absolute time frame between physical lifetimes and it completely varies situation by situation.  It is highly unlikely for one to reincarnate within years, or even a few decades.  There are several reasons why:  First, we must reincarnate with those we have karma and lessons that need to be worked out with.  Therefore, everyone involved would need to be on the other side where they can decide (along with the lords of karma) what the lessons, goals, plans and karma will be in a coming incarnation. 

Second, the circumstances in the physical plane must be able to facilitate whatever the lessons are and that is not easy to come by, as the earth plane changes so continuously and rapidly.  For example, if the karma and lessons for a group tied into the circumstances of a world war, the reincarnation could not occur if the world war was not going to be occurring.  In many instances, it can take multiple decades, to hundreds or even thousands of years before a new incarnation happens. 

Thirdly, it takes time for any of us to be internally ready to come back on earth, as the memories of suffering from our prior incarnation may still be with us and not yet sufficiently released from our consciousness.  If we incarnate again too soon, we are more likely to bring residues from our past lives back with us as fears, paranoias, and even obsessions. 

This process of letting go needs to happen so that we can come back to earth in such a way that we are ready and willing to accept the challenges ahead of us.  The time it takes for us to become prepared for the next incarnation between lifetimes is like an athlete who just had a long, grueling season and needs rest to be ready for the next season. 

The journey continues on…

After death, we know that the personality survives and continues on.  However, throughout time, that personality eventually erodes and fades away permanently.  This occurs as we get closer to our next earthly incarnation. 

Before we reenter the earth plane in our next physical lifetime, a new personality must be constructed which will be based on the coming lessons and karma that will occur in the next incarnation.  The new personality facilitates, as always, the endless and ever continuing journey of life on earth – one that unfolds forever…. And then, once again, after we pass on, we experience life after death.

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Wouldn’t it seem odd and ironic to speak of the karma we have all created throughout the many lifetimes we’ve lived in the same breath with our credit card debt?  After all, what could they possibly have to do with each other?  Our karma is thought of as a spiritual matter that entails our former actions through the countless incarnations we have all led, while our credit card debt is merely thought of as an earthly financial matter.  However, what if I told you that the parallels between the two are spiritually significant and helpful in our lives?

Most of us use them and have seen the blessings as well as the difficulty they bring to us.  While one needs a credit card in today’s world and we all know that the convenience it provides can be miraculous, we can all get carried away with our spending because there is always the thought that we can buy now, and pay later.

How many of us have become overwhelmed by credit card debt and find ourselves barely able to pay the minimum finance charge when the new bill arrives?  Sometimes our spending gets out of control through recreational and indulgent purchases, while at other times, our credit cards are the only way to stay afloat financially and afford expenses that we didn’t see coming, or just don’t have the money for at the time.  Yet as we spend, we often brush off the fact that we’ll have to pay the balance off — and on top of that, with interest that just keeps piling up!

Just like our credit card debt is increased and/or paid down, our negative karma adds spiritual debt while working off our bad karma pays it down.  In addition, the good karma we create always helps us to manifest a better life and move forward in a positive way.  However, no matter what, the debt we accrue both spiritually and financially will have to be paid off at some point in the future.  We must become more cognizant of the fact that we have to pay off our spiritual karmic debt if we want to spiritually advance and while doing so, we need to make every attempt to stop creating additional negative karma in the process.  With that in mind, let’s look at how we can take the steps to become something our soul is forever yearning for and working toward – to become spiritually debt free.

In the beginning…

Long ago, when we first began the reincarnation cycle, we were given complete free will from the divine universe.  We found ourselves in this world of illusion, like an imaginary playground where we could do whatever we wanted to.  Infinite spirit declared to us, “Here is your body, mind, emotions and spiritual self – you have been equipped with everything you could possibly need.  Now go out into this world!” 

An unlimited credit line

Back then, it was just like a 10 year old receiving a credit card that started with absolutely no credit limit whatsoever.  Imagine hearing the words, “Here is your credit card that has no limit and feel free to do whatever you want with it.  It is yours!”  It all sounds magical and whimsical, as if we had just won a multi-million dollar lottery.  Any of us would have probably said, “Oh my God, I can spend as much as I want – and there’s no limit!” But of course, the catch is that we all eventually have to pay off the balance whether now or later.

When it comes to our karma, it is exactly the same thing as having that unlimited credit card.  Of course, we have all spent more on our credit cards than we should have, just as each of us have hurt others in our lives.  We initially began creating negative karmic/spiritual debt by violating the law of love and committing bad acts.  By creating spiritual debts with others, we began owing them.  With the more negative karma we create, the higher our debt goes, just like seeing the charges on our credit card piling up every month. 

Many times we may have disregarded how our actions affected others and just did what we wanted, as if there would be no repercussions for our actions – ever.  But in reality, that is never that case.  As we all create both good and bad karma, it all comes back to us, sooner or later. 

When we’ve accrued negative karma by harming and victimizing others, we will eventually have to take care of those debts which won’t go away until they’re paid off – in full.   Paying our karmic debts from former lifetimes is something we’re still dealing with today, as we reincarnate into the physical world in part because of the negative karmic spiritual debt from our past actions.  It all began in the very beginning with our first violation of the law of love, which led to more karmic penalty, and it all keeps adding up….

Finance Charges Create Even More Debt

As we all know, the finance charges on our credit cards add even more debt. The higher the balance, the more the finance charges, which leads to an even higher balance and the cycle just keeps going….  This is just like the negative karma we create.  Not only do we have to pay off our karmic debts, but also the additional and subsequent repercussions that happen based on the initial negative acts we’ve done.  It is very much like throwing a pebble into the ocean and watching the ripples echo on into infinity.  This is exactly what happened to John and Sarah, a seemingly happy married couple.  

John liked being married to Sarah, but also wanted to cheat on the side to have his cake and eat it too.  Sarah had no idea of John’s affairs and she only found out by “accident.”  One day, John happened to leave his email account open when he left for work.  When Sarah went to the computer to look at her own emails, she noticed an open message right there on the screen. It was from another woman, detailing the wild sex she and John had in a hotel a few weeks prior.  With details of John’s anatomy that only someone would know who had been intimate with him, Sarah knew in one fell swoop that John indeed had cheated on her.  Sarah was just devastated.

After all, she didn’t see it coming as she truly believed that her marriage was stable and solid.  She thought they had a healthy sex life and everything seemed to be just fine.  So when Sarah caught her husband John with another woman, she felt as if the rug had been pulled out from under her.

But more importantly, though, are the series of repercussions that happened due to John’s initial cheating, (which were just like the finance charges that add even more debt the principle amount on our credit cards.)  After her devastation, Sarah began spiraling into a serious depression and overeating.  This lead to severe weight gain, which set off health issues that were quite worrisome: her blood pressure increased, and she developed heart trouble.  On top of that, she lost her focus on the job and was eventually fired.  This was all set off by what John had done to her and how the repercussions developed and grew over a period of about a year and a half.

As all of this was kicked into gear by the negative karma John created, and the continual repercussions his wife incurred were just like the finance charges that compound and increase the initial debit we owe on our credit cards.  It keeps building and accruing month by month – year by year and so on. 

As the difficulties with John’s wife and marriage continued, he, like many of us, wanted a quick fix – some easy way out so it could all be ok again, as he really didn’t want to lose his marriage; he had just wanted to cheat on the side.  But with karmic debt, there is no instant solution, as it takes a lot of time and effort to pay it off, which is something we all will have to learn, sooner or later.

Zero Balance – no interest for 12 months!

How many of us have fallen for the illusion of a credit card offer that says, “Zero balance, and no interest whatsoever on purchases for 12 months?”  Most of us have, as it’s so easy to get fooled by that financial carrot being dangled, and we also do the same thing with our negative actions.

We falsely believe that whatever we do won’t really come back to us – or at the very least, it’s delayed way off in the future and somewhere down the road.  “Why worry about it now?  Just do what you wanna do,” becomes many of our mottos, even if we don’t voice those sentiments out loud.

We delude ourselves into believing that our hurtful acts have a spiritual grace period – as if we’re exempt from paying our spiritual debts for awhile.  And it becomes so easy to extend that grace period in our own minds into being indefinite.  But our fantasy is absolutely not true. As every single thought, word, utterance and choice is immediately recorded in the heavens in real time where it is permanently stored, the repercussions always come back to all of us.

And just as the credit card companies lure us into serious debt by these promotional offers that give the illusion of everything being “free,” we do the same thing to ourselves regarding our spiritual journeys.  “After all, God didn’t just strike me down for what I did wrong, so it’ll all be ok,” is something any of us might believe.  This is exactly what happens to those of us who buy into such illusions and ultimately, we set ourselves up to pay the consequences in our lives..

Just making the minimum payments

We may have all bought into the illusion that there’s a grace period for our bad acts or falsely believe that they don’t really come back to us even though they always do.  However, in reality, we need to remember that it’s never simply a matter that all we’ve done in the past has been “wrong.”    

Most of us have created both good and bad karma in any given lifetime; it isn’t just one way or the other.  But now, we need to make sure that we burn off more negative karma that we already have to get our debt down, and simultaneously, create additional good karma in this lifetime.  This way, we keep evolving spiritually as opposed to just squeaking by in our lives.

Instead, so many people get stuck, just like those of us who can only pay the minimum amount on their credit cards every billing period.  We’ve reached the point financially where we open our bill and see that what we owe is far more than we’re going to make in an entire year.  On top of that, we barely have enough money right now to pay the minimum balance shown on the statement.

The same thing can happen to us spiritually where literally, we dig ourselves so deep into our own negativity in this lifetime that it is tremendously difficult to make a real dent in paying off our bad karma.  Yet, just like paying the minimum amount due, we continue to sort of get by in life, and move forward only to a point, as our debt has been in the making for quite a long time.

Shelly was a person who, like many of us, disregarded the consequences of her choices, till her life became overwhelmed by her past acts.  It was just like anyone who one day opens their credit card statement and realizes that after years of spending, they’re up to their eyeballs in debt.  For Shelly, it all started at the age of 20 when she became bored with her education when she was in school to become a lawyer.

In her own mind, she just felt that she could quit for the time being, have some fun and come back to school later and pick up where she had left off.  However, many people from her family to friends seriously warned her to not quit, as it would be hard to get back into school later.  But instead, she just did what she wanted to do anyway, took some time off, left her home state of Ohio to hang out in Florida where she started drinking and partying with different guys. 

One night while driving home intoxicated, she crashed into another car and injured a young, single mother named Terry.  She sustained a broken neck which only healed somewhat, and the injury left her with a lack of mobility and severe pain.  Then, because of this, Terry couldn’t work or properly take care of her young son and consequently ran out of money.  Shelly ended up losing her driver’s license for 2 years, and spent 6 months in jail.

At that point, Shelly was 24, decided to leave Florida, return home to Ohio and attempt to get back into school.  However, the Florida incident prevented her from ever getting a law degree, as she was a convicted felon.

After attempting to go back to school for another major, she met a man named Robert who really loved her.  So Shelly decided to quit school once again and focus on her relationship with Robert, but she was still drinking and didn’t really treat Robert very well.  In fact, Shelly never told Robert that she had contracted herpes during her wild times years ago in Florida and put him at risk by having unprotected sex with him.

Unfortunately, Robert did contract the disease from Shelly, but he didn’t even find out when and how he got it till after he and Shelly had been married for a couple of years.  Enraged beyond belief after he realized what Shelly had done to him, he immediately filed for divorce.  So after the marriage ended, Shelly was now 30, by herself and hardly had enough money to live on.  But Shelly now being in a position of barely being able to get by, all started 10 years ago with her initial choices to quit school when she was 20, party in Florida, drive home drunk and injure Terry.  

Here we see in a very direct way how Shelly’s choices led her into the position of struggling to merely stay afloat, just like someone who can only afford the minimum payment on their credit card because of their excessive spending habits in the past. 

Yet, just like Shelly, our spiritual repercussions have been in the making for a long period of time and are based on a variety of choices.  In Shelly’s case, it was over a 10 year time frame and clearly illustrated the fact that as with most of us, it’s the big picture that counts and not just one passing moment in time.

Our credit line is decreased and our interest rate gets raised

The repercussions of our negative choices often don’t come back immediately – as in instant karma.  However, in time, they always do.  This is just like hearing from our credit card company after we’ve charged our card to the limit, that our credit line has been decreased and our interest rate has gone up.  Already feeling financially strapped with nowhere to turn, this makes it even harder to wipe out our financial debt.

It is the same thing with our spiritual journey.  After a while, we’ve dug ourselves in deep enough from our choices that the divine universe limits our options, as we’ve shown that we’re not handling our freedom with the spiritual maturity we need to continue to have a wide open playing field.  Plus, we’re weighed down by the spiritual debts we’ve created.

Just like Shelly, we box ourselves into a corner regarding multiple areas of our lives.  Our choices leave us with so many consequences and sometimes those repercussions restrict us and tie our hands, just like being in school and having a sizeable back log of homework that we haven’t completed.  It isn’t as if we could just start over and do whatever we fancy – there are spiritual debts to pay.

In these instances, it’s always important to spiritually keep our eye on the ball and commit to working off our negative debt and building good karma through positive actions in our lives.  Even when we feel underwater and caught up in our own stuff, the only way out is by paying off our debt and continuing to attempt to manifest good!

And as with most of us, we progress through life with mixed results, ending up with a spiritual report card that has both high and low marks: not all A’s, but certainly not all F’s, but a mixture of all grades from a triumphant A+ to a failing F.  We’ve certainly done legitimate good in this world, but how much of our negative karmic debt have we paid off?  Moreover, have we created even additional bad karma in the process?  When it’s all said and done and we ultimately leave this world, we take that report card with us to the other side.  Whatever the debts are, they don’t merely go away by “dying”; but stay with us even after we leave our earthly journey.

Debts wiped out?

It would be nice to think that our karmic debt is somehow forgiven when we cross over – after all, we’ve just lost our physical life and have to make this adjustment to a new journey on the other side.  Shouldn’t our debts merely be just wiped out, so we could start fresh with a clean slate?  After all, if God could do absolutely anything, shouldn’t He be able to at least do that for us?

As much as these sentiments sound reassuring and comforting, they are simply not spiritually true.  In very sobering terms, whatever good karma we’ve created travels with us, as well as our negative karma too.  It certainly goes with us to the other side and we carry these issues and energies forward, just like on every credit card statement, it says, “Current balance,” and lists the amount of debt we still owe.

On the other side, it’s not as if we’re being judged, or having the finger pointed at us – it’s just a matter of spiritual law.  And the law is very fair to everyone – no one gets preferential treatment as the rich and the famous do in the physical world; everyone is treated equally.

So what can we do with these debts on the other side?  Can they be worked off there?  First, negative karma is not always able to be worked off on the other side.  While there may be instances where certain karmic issues can be resolved on the other side, for the most part, negative karma must be burned off in the physical world with the other souls the karma has been created with.  It’s not as if we can mix and match and burn off karma with random souls; it must be done with those it’s been created with and vice versa.  At the very least, what we can do on the other side is to look at what we’ve done, educate ourselves, spiritually grow, and plan for our next lifetime. 

A good way to think of this is that the other side is more likely to be a dress rehearsal: you practice, rehearse, and evaluate what you’ve done prior and prepare for your up and coming performance.  However, the actual performance is in our earthly journey and that’s what ultimately counts.  What we do in the physical plane determines whether we create good karma, burn off negative karma and/or create even more debt for the future.

In the physical world, it would be as if we lost everything we had financially and then called our credit card company on the phone and asked, “Can my debt please be wiped out, as I’ve lost my job and all the money I had?  I don’t know what to do.”  Of course, the company would be unwilling to oblige and you would still be liable for the debt you’ve incurred. 

From a spiritual perspective, that sense of liability is something Gerard experienced quite graphically when he reviewed his journey on the other side and through his teachers and guides, he became aware of just how much karmic debt he was still carrying.  In Gerard’s most recent incarnation, he mostly cared about one thing: himself.  He wasn’t exactly horrible to his wife and kids, yet he didn’t offer them any sense of emotional support or nurturing ever. 

Before entering this incarnation as “Gerard,” he promised he would do these things for his family.  Part of his karmic debt was to extend himself to those he had not supported before, meaning his wife and kids.  He owed them that debt from his neglect of them from prior lifetimes.  However, as is often the case, his ego and emotions got in the way and instead of resolving the negative karma he was supposed to, he created even more, and therefore, was further spiritually in debt being on the other side.

Therefore, when his life as Gerard was finished and we was reviewing his status in spirit, he was devastated, overwhelmed and racked by guilt from his actions and how he didn’t provide what he was supposed to for his wife and children.  His unwillingness to display genuine care and concern prevented him from not only working off his debt, but also helped to hold back his wife and children from manifesting their dreams.

“What can I do?” Gerard asked his teachers.  “How do I pay this off now?” he pleaded.  However, there was no quick fix or easy answer, as it couldn’t be paid off  from where he was at, as that would need to be done in a future physical lifetime with all of the principle parties who had been involved coming back together again on earth. 

It is just like reaching a point with your credit card debt where the only option that’s left is to rollover the balance onto a new card and start over.  From a spiritual point of view, that is just like bringing your karma (both good and bad), into your next incarnation, where we have our next opportunity to work off the bad, hopefully, not create any additional negative karma, and try to bring about as much good karma as we can.

Rolling the balance over to a new credit card

With our next incarnation, we have a fresh start and a new beginning – yet it is so important to take advantage of the opportunity to burn off our negative karma, not add even more bad repercussions for ourselves, indeed create good karma and spiritually move forward with our eternal journey.

We’ve all treated others badly and at some point, we all need to be humbled to that fact — not just saying it, but owning it.  Through humility, we’re able to approach our journey correctly, not from the point of view of just wanting what we want – like recklessly putting charges on our credit card as if there’s no tomorrow.  We must remind ourselves of what we’re here for, which is to spiritually evolve and pay off our debts from the past – as they hold us back from manifesting our divine highest good.

Yes, with each lifetime we get a fresh new start, but our former balance is there as well – just like rolling over our debt onto a new credit card.  Yet, as we look at something so cryptic and endless as the countless lifetimes we’ve lived and all of the incalculable karma we’ve all created (both positive and negative), we can use each new lifetime as a representation of what we can do today, right here, right now.

And of course we have debt from before, but by looking at today with a completely fresh perspective, we can continue to work it off – just like we can enter into a financial plan with an expert who knows how to help us out of credit card debt.  We can look at this day as a new beginning, as a moment to be able to truly spiritually advance ourselves.

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Judge not, lest ye be judged – The Bible

The world of judgment

In the world we live in, we either judge others and/or experience it being done to us.  Everyone is more opinioned, outspoken, critical, condemning and judgmental of others than ever before.  In this age where everyone’s opinion matters, people are hardly shy about speaking up and letting the world know exactly what they think – and who they judge. 

 Just listen to the comments at work that people make about others, what your family and friends say, the opinions that are written in magazines, newspapers, and especially the information splashed all over the internet.  Judgment is everywhere. 

Take a look at cable television “news” shows were people hurl insults and condemn everyone from celebrities to politicians to ordinary folks ‘round the clock, satisfying the insatiable appetites of those who tune in.  Whether the audience disagrees and/or agrees with the pundits on the shows, it is the sense of judgment that largely brings everyone together.

Judgmental folks congregate to each other, just like the old adage, “Birds of a feather flock together.”  Whether it’s through a television “news” show or an organization such as a church where everyone is like minded, people feel strength in numbers, which further validates their viewpoint.  If everyone in a church worships Jesus, then they feel right about their beliefs and entitled to judge those who disagree.  It is tribal in nature just as it once was in the ancient jungles.  Those within the tribe (in this instance, a church) look down on and attack others who are different than them and in the most primitive sense, are from another tribe.

 And you’ll find that most people hardly ever apologize for their judgmentalness of others;  rather, they celebrate it and feel unabashedly empowered to do so!  It’s as if everyone feels entitled to express whatever their opinions are, regardless of how much they attack and hurt others.  So in the world of judgment, who is it that exactly that gets the finger pointed at them?  Is it everyone, or is that a selective process?

Who we judge

 In the world we live in where we look at things as either being right or wrong, we tend to judge those who we feel are “wrong” – and that term is not just limited to someone who commits a egregious crime such as a bank robbery.  It is as open ended as we choose to make it. While some of us have been looked down upon because of our social status, we also do the same to others.  This includes feeling superior to those with less money than us: “Oh, the neighbors don’t have nearly as much money as I do and aren’t financially together like me.  You can tell by looking at that awful car they just bought.  It’s used and at least ten years old.  It probably cost a grand total of a few hundred bucks, but hey, they just don’t have the same kind of money that I do.  It’s just a rusted out piece of junk,” a next door neighbor smugly says.

In addition, if any of you just stop and listen to what is said on television about “unattractive” or “overweight” celebrities, or what people say about their coworkers in the workplace, you’ll see just how much people who aren’t considered physically attractive are attacked and disrespected: “This guy who’s in the next cubicle over from me looks like such a dork.  I bet he hasn’t had a date in years.  No woman would ever touch him with a ten foot pole as he’s so friggin’ ugly.  I can’t stand to even look at him as it ruins my appetite for lunch,” a female coworker chuckles. 

Besides looks, there’s always the rat race in our society of who’s the most successful – and those who are considered less so are often on the receiving end of being criticized: “My brother John has not done well in his career at all, and it doesn’t look like he ever will because he just doesn’t have what it takes.  He just isn’t good enough, you know.  Thinking of it, John hasn’t even gotten one promotion in 12 years,” his brother Jason flatly states. 

On a more lofty level, we look down on people who don’t live up to our standards of morality, family, and behavior.  It’s as if we put ourselves in the role of being the judge and jury when it comes to other’s lifestyles and choices: “My daughter has never married and didn’t have kids.  What’s wrong with her as a woman?  Now it’s too late as she’s too old now.  I’m so disappointed in her,” a mother complains about her daughter. 

Sometimes the insults are far less restrained: “That guy is going straight to hell when he dies.  Not only is he a worthless drunk, but he almost killed a poor, innocent, teenage girl while driving home from a bar.  I hope he rots in prison and in hell!” a man proclaims about a drunk driver he saw on the local news.

Yet perhaps the most insidious and hard to detect form of judgment is when we verbally attack those who remind us of ourselves – of some part of us that we don’t like and that we’re hiding. 

Scott always had an aversion and revulsion of gay men and consistently condemned them.  Every time he’d see someone gay on television or in his neighborhood, the vicious insults would begin to fly: “That damn faggot is an aberration of everything that is natural – spreading disease, and corrupting innocent children.  God hates fags and I wish they would all die from AIDS!” Scott frequently yelled.  This type of attack may sound extreme and unlikely to occur in today’s world, but it’s far more common than you may think. 

Yet in Scott’s instance, it’s not just religious homophobia that is at the root of his hatred.  It’s that he himself is latently gay and has had tendencies to be sexually attracted to other men — and he hates this about himself with a passion.  So instead of facing his issues in whatever way is best for him on a personal level and coming to terms with how he feels, he turns the attack back on those who hold up a mirror to himself – those men who are openly gay.

Whether it’s a homophobic tirade by Scott, putting down someone at work for not being “hot enough,” or any in number of ways, it’s easy to look at instances of who gets judged.  Unfortunately, if we’re being honest, there are far too many endless examples to even begin to keep track of here.  With that being said, we need to look beyond just who we judge, and ask the questions of why and when we criticize and disparage others.

Why and when we judge others

It’s startling to listen to people who feel completely justified in casting judgment upon others  because they feel superior, better than, and somehow entitled to see others as “wrong.”  Whether these criticisms are said as seemingly casual comments, or blaringly loud exclamations as Scott did, it is the sense of egotism and arrogance that fuels this energy.

Yet this is nothing new, as we can trace judgment back through all of recorded history.  In the most extreme cases, people are run out of town and even put to death through being judged.  Even today, women in parts of the Middle East are stoned to death for cheating on their husbands, whether it’s provable infidelity or only an accusation.  Here, we see where finger pointing reaches a level that is quite hard to comprehend for most of us.  If you’re a woman, imagine that you could be stoned to death simply for being accused of cheating on your husband – right here, right now in today’s world!

The self righteousness becomes a smokescreen of hiding the flaws in the person or persons doing the judging.  In this instance, the sense of being “holier than thou” becomes a way of camouflaging the shortcomings that exist within all of us.  Think of it: Aren’t we all flawed, and haven’t we all made mistakes?

When criticizing others, it’s as if there is a “right” person (the one doing the judging), and a “wrong” person (the one who’s being judged).  But that energy shows an absolute absence of one of the very cornerstones we’re all here to spiritually learn, which is empathy and compassion.

Without empathy and compassion, we can sit in judgment of others day and night and never put ourselves in the shoes of those we’re looking negatively upon.  When empathy and compassion are missing, our sense of judgment has no boundaries and just continues, especially when our egos get involved in the process.  As we hurl this negativity into the ether and at people, we even sometimes alter the course of their lives in a terribly destructive way as what we say really does hurt them. This is exactly what happened to Patricia.

Patricia took a new job about a year ago, and her boss was named Tammy.  Patricia was a divorced single mother of two while Tammy was a married Evangelical Christian who strongly believed that divorce was a serious sin.  Therefore, she sat in judgment of Patricia.  Tammy immediately began putting Patricia down at work and spreading negative things about her to anyone within earshot.

She said things like, “Patricia just doesn’t seem to get the hang of this job at all.  She’s lazy and not a very good worker.”  Then she’d follow up with, “Oh my God, I am so worn out as I have to do Patricia’s work all the time, as she’s just not capable at all.  Jesus help me as I’m so sick of her!”  After months of this, people started to believe what Tammy was saying, and the backlash against Patricia began building.

However, none of what Tammy said was true as Patricia was in fact an excellent worker.  It was just that Tammy had a hard time with the fact that Patricia was a divorced woman, and in Tammy’s mind, that was dead wrong.

So after about six months of Tammy’s repeated verbal slurs, Patricia ended up being fired, all supposedly because of her inferior work performance.  Here we see how the judgment Tammy felt toward Patricia altered her life forever.  She lost her job and was out of work for six months, which caused her and her children to experience great financial hardship.

As with Tammy and Patricia, it’s so easy for any of us to get caught up in the flow of putting others down and unloading on them because we feel justified in how we view them.  Plus, we supposedly feel relieved by releasing these negative energies and by getting it all out.  We falsely assume that since we believe we’re superior to others, what we’ve done is absolutely ok!

 However, this is a complete illusion.  Instead of putting others down and making it righteous in our own minds, what we should doing is asking ourselves this most important question: “If I judge others, what happens to me in the process?”

To judge others is to judge ourselves

 To whatever degree you judge others, is the same degree that you judge yourself. – Jim1537

 When we judge others, the joke is really on us from a spiritual perspective.  First, we don’t feel good about ourselves if and when we condemn others because if we were at peace with ourselves, we wouldn’t find the need to attack others at all.  Judging others is reflective of our exact relationship with ourselves and the degree we judge and the way we do so clearly reveals exactly how we really feel who we are inside.  And the more we point out what’s wrong with others, the worse we feel within.  Think of it this way:  for every judgment you think or say is the same thing as putting a dose of poison in your bloodstream.

It’s not just an abstract concept that is lofty and in the clouds, but metaphysically quite clear and correct.  When we judge others, we attract judgment to ourselves, just as whatever we do comes back to us. 

Even if we don’t have it in our hearts to stop criticizing others based on empathy and compassion, we must end it if just for the sake of our physical health, general well being, and self preservation.  Of course, none of us like being judged, yet as long as we do so ourselves, we will continue to attract this awful energy back to us.

A perfect example of this happened to a musician named Colin who never had a good thing to say about any other artists he knew.  He condemned virtually every musician he was “friends” with, calling their work boring, predictable, uninteresting, and second rate. 

So when Colin did a performance of his own, the feedback came in quickly and swiftly:  “Boring, uninteresting, and predictable,” was what one critic stated.  Then, a different critic actually referred to Colin’s show as “Second rate.” 

However, did these jabs come from the people Colin had attacked himself?  Not at all.  The same words Colin said about others came back to him from completely different sources, and not those who Colin knew.  Because he sent out this energy into the universe, it was brought back to him, yet not from those who Colin had hurled his insults at.

From a deeper point of view, let’s look at a scenario much bigger and vaster than Colin’s.  When we judge others, we sometimes have to actually reincarnate in a future lifetime in the exact same shoes of those we’ve condemned before.  Why?  To experience firsthand what we did to them.  It may be the only way we can learn from what we’ve done through our judgment of others.

When Cindy was just a little girl, she began mocking other children in school right to their faces who had speech impediments.  She would mimic their sounds, exaggerate their speech problems, contort her face and just laugh all day long, thinking their issues were just hilarious.  As an adult, she never outgrew this practice and continued to verbally mock those who had speech impediments, as if she was performing a comedy routine.  Trying to mimic their every sound and chuckling all the way, she devoted her entire life to making fun of those who couldn’t speak properly and just thought it was a blast to do so.

Little did she realize that she was setting herself up for who and what she would reincarnate as in her next lifetime, because when she came back into this world, she was born with a lifelong speech impediment.  In this instance, she needed to experience what she had done to others and how she had hurt them, as it was the only way for her to spiritually grow past this and come to terms with what she did prior.

This is in no way to say that those who are born with a disability have done something before to “bring it on,” as there are many spiritual and karmic reasons as to why any of us reincarnate in a certain way.  It’s just that in certain instances, we literally do come back into this world in a future lifetime in the very same shoes of those we have judged before!   

Yet all of us have made mistakes and we have all looked down on others.  However, that doesn’t mean that there’s an indelible black mark on our souls which will lead to severe spiritual punishment now and/or in the future.  It means that we need to let go of the madness of judging others!  Yet as a culture, we’re so entrenched in judgment as a daily way of life, that how do we begin to do this?  Here are some great tips, insights, exercises and affirmations to achieve that very goal for you!

Instead of judging others, try blessing them instead

First, try this exercise for one to two days: Have a note pad and a pen/pencil and write down how many times you judge anyone else or hear others do the same.  In addition to what you think and say about others that is disparaging, include the words of coworkers, family, friends, and anything you hear on television or read in the media that criticizes someone else.  This could range from anything such as a cynical comment or a nasty remark about someone’s appearance, all the way to a declaration that someone deserves to die!  I bet you’ll be surprised how many times you judge or observe others doing so, all in a matter of a day or two.

Then, look at all of the judgments you’ve recorded, and realize that you shouldn’t be asking yourself if the criticisms are justified, right, or correct.  Keep in mind that you can always find fault in anyone if and when you want to.  It’s like the old cliché: If you’re looking for it, you’ll find it. 

Instead, ponder these questions: Who am I to judge anyone else?  Am I God?  If that doesn’t make you want to relinquish judgment, remember that from a spiritual perspective that all of us have committed the most horrific acts imaginable in one lifetime or another – and that includes murder.  Yes, we have all murdered, so who are we to look down on anyone else?

Remember that in the big scheme of things, you’re just like the person you’re judging.  It begs the question we should all ask ourselves, “Why are my actions any better than anyone else’s?”  With that in mind, it’s clear that we are all the same, so how could we disparage anyone else?  That just means that we’re attacking ourselves.

Even though we’ve committed the most primitive animalistic acts against others in prior lifetimes, we’re now at a point in our spiritual evolution where we’re supposed to be getting past such things.  And part of that growth means for us to learn to not judge others.  This process helps us to become humbled, and with humility, comes the freedom and power of not judging!

Yet, if you’re still feeling compelled to view others as wrong, never forget for a moment that to judge others is to judge ourselves – literally.  Even it’s merely for the sake of self preservation, it is far too costly to judge because of the way others will treat us in return. 

In addition, we can’t afford the penalty our body pays for being a part of such an ugly and dark energy, and the toll it takes on our finances helps to bring us into poverty as well.  Remember that projecting an ugly energy into the atmosphere brings it right back to us – and it can affect our lives in any number of ways.  Ultimately, we lose our connection to the love and light that is so necessary to bring in the blessings we divinely deserve when we harm others through judgment. 

Instead of judging others, the solution is to bless them, which releases not only them, but you, to the highest and greatest good.  This process also helps to heal your life.  Start with someone you judge who you don’t know, like a celebrity you’ve looked down upon.  (One recent example that comes to mind is how people in droves attacked singer/actress Jessica Simpson because she gained some weight.)  Whether it’s Jessica or someone else, think of a celebrity or someone you don’t know you’ve disparaged. 

Now, insert that person’s name in the blank space and say out loud: “I no longer judge ________.  I now bless them and release them to their highest good!  Say it repeatedly and feel it in your heart – and you’ll see how much lighter and happier you’ll become!  The reason I started with someone you don’t know or a celebrity, is because it’s not personal in nature, therefore, it’s easier to do.

Next, work toward blessing someone who has personally hurt you, whether it was being jilted by a lover, friend, coworker and/or family member.  Instead of judging them, bless them by affirming: I release all hurt, pain, and judgment toward _____________ and bless them with positive wishes for their complete happiness.  Through blessing them, you release however the former situation is holding you back from manifesting good things in your life today.

Last but not least, take a person who is publicly acknowledged as a horrible person.  This could be a serial killer, rapist, dictator, and/or child molester.  These people are so easy to condemn as they have caused an incalculable amount of hurt to others – and even to entire nations. 

However, instead of judging them, release them to their highest good and bless them by affirming: As it is not my place to judge anyone, I bless and release __________to their highest and greatest good!  Now, you’ll start feeling somewhat better and assume that you’re done.  After all, could it be harder to forgive someone other than a mass murderer?  “What could be possibly tougher than that?” you might ask. 

Yet, it can be even more difficult to no longer judge someone else – a person you may have never thought you had to stop judging – someone you may have long believed you were ok with…and that person is you.  The biggest challenge is to no longer judge yourself.  You may not think you’re doing it, but remember, if you judge others, you are also doing the same thing to yourself. 

So it’s finally time to view yourself, spiritually, in the correct way – with acceptance.  Stop and remember that you’re good enough right now, and that you have always been loveable as a person.  Whatever you’ve done before, let it go and lift a ton of weight off of your shoulders by affirming: I now release any and all burdens of judging myself into the eternal spirit of divine love, where I am unconditionally loved and perpetually accepted as I am.  I no longer judge myself and forever see myself as blameless and innocent!   By offering yourself this supreme gift, you will be surprised at how much better you will feel!

Then, here is a special day-by-day tip: Police yourself every day and make sure that you are replacing the old habits of judging others and yourself with blessing not only them, but also you. 

By not judging, you are free!

By not judging, we free ourselves: from personal attack, criticism, condemnation, and judgment, both internally within us and externally by others.  This greatly improves our physical, emotional, and spiritual health, mental state and finances as well. We will also attract others who accept us and appreciate us in every corner of life, even down to the strangers we encounter out in public.  By releasing judgment of others and ourselves, there is no longer that open door for others to enter our space and attack us.  We have closed that door, locked it, and thrown away the key.  We now become as free as the eagles soaring above the sky.

By judging, we’ve tried to play God, but in doing so, we show how little we really spiritually know.  We also tip our hands to our unabashed arrogance, as we are literally saying that we’re better or more qualified than God by condemning others.  

Our concept of God as some finger pointing, mean spirited, perfectionist, forever berating Supreme Being who sends us into hell’s inferno forever if we’ve been bad is simply not true.  That perception is based on our human distortion. 

Rather, a higher power should be thought of as the most unconditionally loving parent a child could ever want.  There is no judgment, criticism, intolerance, condemnation and punishment – there is only pure, unconditional love and acceptance for all of us, regardless of who we are and what we’ve done! 

It’s like having a parent who welcomes you with open arms and a warm hug, regardless of whatever has happened in your journey.  Think of those moments in your life when you may have felt that love: Opening a wondrous Christmas gift from your parents when you were a small child, feeling so utterly secure being carried to bed by a parent or loved one when you were a toddler, or being tucked into bed at night with a gentle kiss.  There was a feeling of compete safety, peace, security, and joy.  Now, if you can imagine that feeling magnified incalculably, that is how you are spiritually viewed and regarded by divine love, forever.

If we raise our perception and understanding to not only mentally grasp, but truly feel our concept of God as the eternal, everlasting and pure consciousness of unconditional love that simply is, how could we ever judge anyone or ourselves again?  Think if it: If a higher power doesn’t judge, then how and why could we?  It begs this simple truth: If all of us are good enough for God, so to speak, then we’re good enough for ourselves!

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