Forgiveness
Forgiving others is essential for spiritual growth. Your experience of someone who has hurt you, while painful, is now nothing more than a thought or a feeling that you carry around. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will dis-empower you and possibly harm you physically if you continue to let them occupy space in your head. If you could release them, you would know more peace.
I understand how hard this can be. It took me awhile to be able to forgive those who hurt me, including myself. We tend to want to make them pay for what they’ve done but the truth is, they are no longer in the picture (in most cases). The only one who continues to pay is you. The more you hold onto the pain, sadness, and anger, the more you keep yourself held down and held back from really enjoying your life. You are essentially allowing them to keep on hurting you.
“At this point, I’ve replaced forgiveness with empathy, unconditional love, and compassion – for myself and for others. Rather than judge, creating a need for pardon, I now have only caring and great respect for the multifaceted role each of us plays in the Whole of creation.”-Anita Moorjani
Some Ways to Help You to Forgive:
The first way to forgive is…