Question: I often run into someone who is willing to criticize others than to teach others. At this time, I do not react the same way and I try to turn the other cheek. Because I know that such arguments are meaningless and others are to some degree my reflection. But in these situations, I can still find that I have some anger and stress within. Even though I can deal with these situations better compared to the past, there still remains some amount of anger and stress. How can I purify the suppressed anger and stress? And how can I be free from the situation where I am criticized?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Being the Open Door for Planet Earth.
Well, on a planet like earth, it is impossible to not be exposed to people who will criticize you, you may not have been exposed to it in this lifetime, but you surely have in past lifetimes. You need to consider that all of you have this issue of dealing with being criticized. And in the past, you have created various separate selves to deal with this. And the only realistic solution is to uncover those selves by using our tools and then letting the selves die.
You need to recognize here, criticizing other people is a state of mind. What have we said many times? The analytical mind can always find an argument for whatever viewpoint it wants to validate. If someone has the attitude that they want to criticize you, they can always find something to criticize no matter what you do, or say. No matter if there is any validity to it or not, they can always find something to criticize that is valid in their eyes.
You need to make it very clear to yourself that if people are critical, they are in this critical attitude. There is no point in arguing with them, because you cannot convince them that they are wrong and that you are right. And it is not a matter of right and wrong. Every consciousness has a polar opposite. You have the consciousness of criticizing, which has the polar opposite of wanting to defend yourself, often by proving others wrong.
There are many spiritual people who are not outgoingly aggressive people. You are not necessarily going around criticizing others. But when you become criticized yourself, you go into a mode of wanting to prove those who criticize you wrong. And this is just allowing yourself to be dragged into the dualistic game. You need to make a conscious decision that you will not allow yourself to do this, that you will expose the separate selves that are behind this reaction and you will decide that: “I am not going to try to convince this person that he or she is wrong or that I am not as bad as they say I am. I am just going let the separate self die, so that this person has no influence on me—cannot force me into a reaction.”
It is only when you no longer have a reaction to being criticized that you are really free of this consciousness. Consider it an opportunity to free yourself and reach a very important milestone on the spiritual path. It is truly impossible to manifest Christhood and dare to express your Christhood unless you overcome this entire quagmire of being criticized and defending yourself or trying to prove other people wrong. It just needs to go. You need to transcend it, let it go so you are not touched by it. And then you can start expressing your Christhood freely and without the fear or without the anger of criticism.
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