God said:

Beloved, no longer be overly concerned with what other people may or may not make of you. What is so all-important about what anyone thinks that makes you feel disheveled with yourself no matter how unkind and unjustified another's random thoughts may be? You alone are responsible for the thoughts you think – no matter how rude another’s thoughts may be and no matter how isolated you may feel. Rather than to keep processing another’s thoughts, do whatever you have to do to remove such thoughts from the face of the Earth.

As a continuation of our recent message on shame and guilt, we would like to address another aspect of shame – when others have shamed you, or made you feel guilty or shameful.

Shame and guilt have been aspects people have used to control others for centuries. Shame has been used as a tool to control children and get them to behave in a certain manner. It has been used to keep people small, from stepping into their own authentic power, and from shining their own light beautifully and unabashedly.

Shame and guilt that have been heaped upon children is particularly damaging, for it creates a belief system within them that they are inherently bad or not good enough, which erodes self esteem and self confidence.

There is so much noise in your world today. So many opinions, so many voices, such a bombardment of information. While it can seem chaotic, it is doing you a profound service, for it is making you seek out the stillness within and your inner knowing – to be heart-centred and proceed from there. It is all unfolding to bring you back to your heart, time and again, because that is your most empowered place to navigate from. And that, Dear Ones, is a great blessing, indeed. ~Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young