REGARD
How do you Regard a rock as compared to a tree? A tree as compared to a lamb? A lamb as compared to a wolf? A wolf as compared to a child? A child as compared to a woman? A woman as compared to a man? A man as compared to a hero or legend?
Do you have a value system in place that tells you how to approach, address, and communicate within each of the categories you form to organize your beliefs about others—and do you know why?
How do you Regard a rock? Is a rock less-than or more-than You? Is it animate or inanimate? Is it necessary or unnecessary? Can you communicate with a rock? Do you know its language? Does a rock know your language? Do you ask a rock’s permission to come into its domain? What is a rock and how do you Regard it?
Does a rock have any Who attached to its What?
As you ask yourself these questions, changing subjects as you decide how you Regard other matters and entities, you will begin to understand that you have a highly developed hierarchy of Values and Importance. Your Regard for communication on the low end of your spectrum will be very different from your communication style on the high end of the spectrum: that is, how you Regard a rock is probably vastly different from how you might Regard a personal hero.
Do Regard and Respect go hand-in-hand with your communication style and delivery?
Think deeply about this, and specifically. You may displace a rock or trample a tree without giving them any Regard at all. You will make choices for the lamb and for the child, as certainly they might need to be made, yet you might also disregard their personal interests in favor of your own. And a wolf? Would you not give a dangerous carnivore more respect than the mild mammal?
What of people? Do you see men and women as equals—in all things? Do you see cultures and skin colors and gender habits and preferences as equal-valued? Are heroes, legends, demi-gods, and mythological beasts above them? How so? Where do you live on that scale?
Regard is not the same as judgment or classification. Regard is Awareness Made With Respect. Regard is Interaction Completed With Respect. Regard is Acknowledgement of Existence Given With Respect. Regard is Seeing The Other With Respect.
Regard Your Self as you yourself prefer to be Regarded.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
Archives: September 29, 2014
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