To forgive is Divine

 

 

The Awesome Power of Forgiveness 

Written by Jafree Ozwald and Margot Zaher

"If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive." ~Mother Theresa

One of the most powerful things you can do is master the art of forgiveness. If you are carrying a grudge against anybody, whether it's big or small, you're clinging to a heavy shield around your heart that's weighing you down and negatively impacting you on many levels.  By continuing to be angry or upset with somebody else because they have wronged you, only hurts you in the long run.  Like attracts like, and when we hold onto feelings how someone has hurt us, we're anchoring our energy in the past and attracting another victim-like scenario in the future. 

If we don't learn how to forgive and let go of the pain that's been done, it doesn't allow us to be fully open, available, alive, and present to this divine moment.  Our being becomes tight, protected and contracted when we cannot forgive people.  The quicker we can learn to let go, the less time we spend in pain and suffering.  Holding onto a grudge from the past with anyone only hinders our ability to become a positive open loving being, who is manifesting the life of our dreams.  

The word "forgiveness" is derived from the word to "give".  Forgiveness is a gift of freedom and healing.  When you give it to another person you actually are giving this to yourself. The act of forgiving another may not free the other person if they do not accept it, yet it will definitely liberate your energy.  Even if the other person holds onto the past grudge all the way to their grave, you can still forgive them for not knowing how.  Your job is simply to let the past go and trust that everything is always in perfect divine order.  The Universe never makes mistakes...ever.

Every act of harm unleashed is pure stimulation for our soul's awakening. The pain makes us wake up, recalibrate our life and adjust our sails towards a bigger freedom. The judgments we tend to inflict upon ourselves force us to love ourselves even deeper.  The wound inside us creates a womb where new life can be formed.  We must then choose to give birth to something inside us that is more loving, healing and creative.  We must also forgive ourselves for anything that is less than love.  When we do forgive ourselves, we instantly feel a great lightness that opens our chest and spreads all throughout our body.  It is a powerful path to healing that is always available to choose in every moment of our lives.

Every day we have the option to let go of our pride and let in the love, or hold on tighter and be right about something unfair or wrong.  If you want to become a more sensitive humble and deeply loving human being, you must learn the response of forgiveness and compassion.  Softening our ego is perhaps the most empowering and enlightening action we can do as it puts us directly in contact with our soul.  If you are ready to experience the amazing power of forgiveness today, simply follow these 3 basic forgiveness steps:

1. Recognize your Attachment to your Story - When you hold onto a grudge, you are actually holding onto the story about what happened along with heavy feelings attached to your story.  When you fully feel those heavy feelings that arise when you think about your story, you then can move through them and underneath them.  Be curious about what is there underneath your feelings, as it will be something you never thought of before.  Notice how you played your part in the drama and take responsibility for the role you stepped into.  When you understand what the "payoff" of benefit you received by playing this role, no matter how horrible it was, you can then let go of the pattern completely. 

2. Release those Repressed Feelings - When someone mistreats or hurts us, we may either express this pain or repress it.  If you were taught to repress your feelings, put on a brave face, and go on with our life, you'll have many heavy feelings inside you rotting away at your core.  All repressed feelings fester deep inside of us, and cause us to continue to carry a burden about life, relationships, people and the world. The first step in forgiving is letting go of these heavy feelings, allowing them to turn into lighter feelings. There are many techniques that can help you release pent up emotions from the past. One simple way you can do this on your own is emotional release journaling. Just write about the past event without censoring it.  Write from your most emotional place and keep writing until you have emptied everything out. Do not read it once you have finished. Wait a few days or weeks before you read it.  You can burn what you have journaled and proclaim out-loud "I let this go". If your repressed emotions are very strong or feel overwhelming, it may be best to get the support of a trained professional to help you let them go.

3. Continuously Choose Forgiveness -  In every moment, you have the opportunity to choose forgiveness.  Once you release that holding onto the past only harms you, you can consciously choose to let it go instead of returning to resentment.  Choosing forgiveness is a constant process.  This means you will always choose to feel feelings of lightness, freedom and healing from the past event. Once you have decided to forgive someone, visualize the person is in front of you, and say it out loud to them, "I forgive you completely for what happened.  I love you and thank you for the lesson.  Please forgive me for what I've done."  Notice how it feels just reading this proclamation in your body.  By stating this message out loud you create an instant energetic shift in your body. The person can be on the phone, in the room or simply there in your mind.  If you do this in your mind, the secret is that it must FEEL real to you.  You will be amazed out how this declaration starts opening up your entire world in ways you never dreamed were possible.  You'll soon see how it sparks the manifestation of more positive and desired experiences into your life.

I've created a Guided Healing Meditation that will help you to relax into your body and access a powerful healing experience that can transform your entire life!  This 23 minute healing journey will open your heart, ignite your creative mind and help you to heal the mental and emotional wounds hidden deep inside you.  It will bring a physical healing experience into every cell in your being, and has been found to work amazing for people who are fighting any illness or disease to fill the mind with the power of healing energy.  Just listening to this meditation one time will heal and liberate your life in a multitude of many ways. Enjoy

A-Z Challenge P- Power

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just    Blaise Pascal

According to the Oxford Dictionary, power is  authority or command over other, ability to influence others through the use for force
We all have a sense or experience of power. Many of us have use power over others by virtue of our size, our strength, ability or through other means as well as we have experienced the power of others over us beginning with our parents, teachers and supervisors. now
   Because power confers on people the ability to control others, many misuse this privilege to get their own way and to force others to bend to their will instead of coming to a mutual understanding. A typical example of this is the ways in which parents sometimes treat their children.  Many parents do not respect their children;s opinions and maybe understand their role as a decision maker and feel that they know what is best and impose their will on children without explanation. :Just do it because I say so kind of thing. This attitude is also carried out in the workplace where supervisors may treat their staff as they treat their children, telling them what to do with the threat of being fired or disciplined if they did not, many  are not interested in the opinions of staff only in what they want and this could be carried out further in the State where a leader might become obsessed with their own sense of power and turn into dictators overriding the democratic rights of their citizens and  decree laws and punishmen\that are oppressive.
  There is a saying that absolute power corrupts. Power is sweet for those who like to use it as a weapon and to boost their own sense of importance.
   When one thinks of power the first thing that may come to mind is the ability to command others to one's will, Having the power to hire or fire a person for a job is huge, having the power to charge someone with an offence is huge, having the power of to confer and take away rights of an entire nation or a group of people  is huge. Having the power to change the lives of others for the better to create a just society by implementing appropriate laws and policies  is huge.
  Power can be used for good or bad it depends on who is wielding the power. Think of Hitler, the dictator or the modern day Russian leader against the weaker country Ukrainian think about the American or Canadian democratic societies where human rights are enshrined in the constitution.
   Because of what can be done with power there are many who long for it but the only true power a person has is power over oneself. This is the most important power.  When one has mastered the power over oneself, he or she is better able to use power responsibility and humanely. 

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.  Alfred A. Montapert