By Vila Loukas, Spiritual Guide & Healer

Shame Can Be Overcome. To do get beyond it--the shame must be transmuted. Here's how.

Shame plays an immensely large role in the emotional landscape for us as humans--and an unhelpful role at that. It drives so much of the unconscious motivations under the surface of interpersonal dynamics in human life. It lurks hidden, wreaking havoc and threatening our quality of life with ongoing fear, pain and distortion of truth. Contrary to popular belief, shame is not an emotion. Shame exists as a cross-section of emotional, physical and mental conditions and must be understood and approached as such.

To undo and release shame, it is essential to understand how it has come to be. In the simplest terms possible, I will describe the fundamental process of what causes shame and how it comes to be. 

Shame is the emotional-energetic result of the condition of being disconnected from the truth of who and what we are. It first comes into existence whenever...