"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."
~Robert Muller
During the month of February we've been focused on love and relationships. And let's be honest a key component to loving someone is having the capacity to forgive. According to Merriam Webster to forgive is to "cease to feel resentment."
When we forgive another we release ourselves from ill will of the past. When we harbor ill will, we are hindered from healing. Indeed, we must understand that failing to forgive is really handing over our power to someone or something else. The experience or person to whom we have given life and power is the exact thing that we are running from, that we fear or that torments us.
In order for our lives to flow as they were designed to, we must claim our power, and that can only be done when we grasp the concept of forgiveness - and act upon it!
Each of us has suffered in some way. To move beyond this suffering and pain, we must forgive. When we continue to be a victim, we remain powerless. In order to live our most powerful life, we must bravely and boldly look into our past and see where we have unresolved scars and face them!
Make it Happen
This week select two people or situations that you need to forgive. As you review who you need to forgive - be open to the possibility that you may need to forgive yourself.
Write each a short letter forgiving them or even you for what has or what hasn't happened in the past. Write the letter all out - as if no one but you will read the letter. Don't hold anything back, let go. We can even become complete with people who have already passed away. This process is about you not about them. If you become frustrated remember that we are doing this for you, so that you may move forward.
Here is the line you've been waiting for...you don't have to send the letter. What you write is from your heart and for your eyes only.
This process is difficult, but not forgiving is even more difficult in the long run. Allowing resentment to live within gives permission for negative energy to have life and power over you. Your goal is to say good bye to that which does not serve you so that you will have room to replace it with that which will serve you. This process will lead you to live your most powerful life.
May you be blessed for you are a blessing!
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