Self-Responsibility and Accountability

By Trish Briggs

Responsibility and accountability are hefty concepts. Many people avoid them like the plague and learn how to sidestep them very efficiently early on. If something goes wrong, they will not be the ones at fault. However, when it is a win, usually they are right there to lay claim to the adulations. When you add in the word “self” to responsibility and accountability, we now are talking a whole different level of play as human beings.

Each of us that has chosen to take the long journey to self-discovery have joined in Olympic level play. We left the Little League behind when we made our choice.

Responsible for self means responsible for everything you do, say, intend, believe, and think with respect to your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self. Then you add in accountability for self, and you are responsible for all the ripples or effects your actions, words, intentions, beliefs, and thoughts have had on others physically, mentally, emotionally, and energetically.

The key to achieving self-responsibility/accountability is through self-awareness, knowing self, the whole self. This includes awareness of our complexity as spiritual beings within a physical body, the healthy and not so healthy parts of ourselves. As we all know this does not happen overnight.

It takes years of self-work, self-discovery, self-healing, (I would also include assimilation of aspects from other timelines, dimensions, etc.) to develop this awareness. It is during this process of actualizing our whole self that we gradually get a handle on self-responsibility/accountability. It happens organically as we become familiar with ourselves on all these levels.

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I recently discovered a young adult self (piece from this timeline) that was rogue. This self was very effective at staying quiet, hidden, while hiding my child self. It was not until it surfaced in my awareness that my child self was MIA and I needed to find her, that I became aware I had a problem. I was aware of this young adult piece, but not what she was manipulating without my knowledge. She was out of line with the now-me. She had gotten hung up on a childhood belief that was reinforced during her timespan (probably why the child-self was with her). And in the reinforcement of this awry belief, she was doing things that were not appropriate that were also affecting others physically and energetically. Once I located her, understood the issue, and corrected it, I then had to hold her responsible and accountable for what she had done, along with holding myself responsible and accountable because she is part of me. Not an easy task. We had to address all levels: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and energetic.

A word of caution: it is just as important that you recognize what belongs to you and what doesn’t when it comes to responsibility and accountability. Whenever you are being responsible and accountable, other energies, beings, people, etc. will gladly encourage you to shoulder what belongs to them.

I recognize that Leila is by far the forerunner expert in this area (selves/aspects) and all my knowledge in this area is a result of her experience and knowledge. I want to close by saying, “Thank you Leila for all your help and assistance with this rogue piece. You willingly gave me your knowledge, time, and energy when I asked for your assistance. It allowed me to move through this process with my rogue piece more quickly than I would have on my own. Thank you.”