Welcome, from Sedona Healing Journey. As we continue with our healing journey, and connecting with the spiritual energy of the vortexes here, you may find yourself going naturally into meditation. So much is happening in our world right now, that one of the virtues you may want to consider is forgiveness.
We may think why did they do that? They should know better! They could have decided differently! What’s wrong with them?
Don’t we on some level say these things about other people?
What if we just forgive them?
I can hear it now, “Why should I forgive them, they hurt me,” or “They’re really stupid, I just don’t care!”
Forgive them. You have heard this a thousand times. Sometimes it’s just too difficult, or it feels like to forgive, means, you condone their actions. Sometimes people do seriously hurtful and harmful things. I have heard people say, “Oh I have forgiven them,” as their voice gets higher pitched and their body gets tense.
Stuffing something isn’t forgiveness, it’s burying the issues deep into your psyche, which isn’t freedom, nor will it lead to inner peace. To forgive is to realize that the person in question wasn’t able to make a better choice, or they would have.
Somehow you expected that person to be more evolved than they are, (in your opinion of course) and you get upset when you feel they should have acted differently.
But they didn’t act differently. So, any resentment, anger, judgement, is you not accepting reality as it is, which only is going to upset and hurt you, not them.
It’s our projection, so what is stopping ‘us’ from ‘doing better’ ‘knowing better’ etc….
So to forgive someone, is understanding they are emotionally where they are on their journey. Period. In reality, they are offering us a look at ourselves and where we are not yet free.
And your judgments about their process isn’t going to change this fact.
I had a hate affair with my father for decades. Finally I had the thought, “Would I want to BE him with all the issues he was dealing with?” (without self help community or spiritual understanding).
The answer was a resounding ‘NO!’
So if I wouldn’t want to BE him, could I have compassion for the fact that he has to be him? Yes, I could do that, as a matter of fact when we really step into someone else’s experience the only True (with a capital T) experience is compassion, acceptance and love.
If you have been raised in Judeo-Christian religions you have heard, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” This is the Truth.
Again if they could do better, they would do better. So it’s a matter of accepting that fact and blessing them on their journey, and freeing yourself of ideas and concepts of how things ‘should be’.
In reality there are two levels of forgiveness. One is forgiving the actual event and person in it, as discussed above. This is wonderful as we can now live in our lives with more harmony.
There is also forgiveness ‘from’ the illusion itself. When you forgive the illusion, the dream, you are forgiving people for what they really haven’t done. We’re dreaming a dream.
Since the dream only reflects back to us what the mind thinks, this gives us the opportunity to see what’s within us that keeps us tied to the dream of ME.
So forgive yourself for buying into the dream, yet again.
We ALL do it…..until we don’t.
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I’m looking forward to working with you and guiding you to your own transformations – transforming your relationships with the people in your life and with your own self, by tapping a deeper inner peace and a much quieter mind.
Vishali Shahin B.S., R.N.
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