Soul without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within by Byron Brown

Author:Byron Brown [Brown, Byron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2012-09-24T04:30:00+00:00

When you taste the sense of capacity, focus, and initiative in true strength, you recognize that it removes the internal barriers to acting and being effective in your life, to expanding and growing, and to being independent. The judge will quickly attack such autonomy as selfish. “If you don’t need anyone, who will care about you? . . . You’ll get too big for your britches. . . . Nobody likes someone who is so full of himself. . . . You sound pretty arrogant to me. . . . Get realistic and realize no one likes a show-off. . . . Wait until the first storm hits and then see how independent you feel.”

You have a long history of suppressing your true strength, and the judge will remind you of every one of the reasons why you had to cut off that energy. Activating this part of you, however, is absolutely essential to making any real headway in disengaging. It is your lifeblood, and it has been totally sucked out of you by the judge. To regain it, you must actively take it back. You need to learn to get righteously indignant about the robbery and tell the judge to back off and shut up. Disengaging from judgment can become a reality only when you can come from your strength in defending against the judge’s attacks. It doesn’t matter whether it manifests as a blast that wipes the judge out of your mind, a curious child exposing the judge’s nakedness, or a clear, solid presence staying focused on what is real and ignoring the rest (as Bob did in the second example in chapter 4). Remember, strength engenders responses that are appropriate to what is needed.

By using true strength, you will bring the judge down to size. The judge’s strength is fake, rigid, inflexible, mechanical, and is no match for the strength of your inherent aliveness. That strength is far beyond the intimidation of the judge. It is like an exploding demon in the service of truth. When you first experience it, this intensity and spontaneous power is often frightening. It may feel destructive and out of control, and the judge will do everything to convince you that it should be avoided. But with practice at allowing your excitement, your aliveness, your passion, your indignation, and your heartfelt courage to stand up for yourself, you will come to trust that true strength supports who you truly are and that what it threatens most is the falseness of the judge.

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