Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a method for taking your power to increase and reclaim love, compassion and acceptance for yourself and others. It allows you to release the suffering you are carrying from a painful incident. Suffering exists when you hold on to the pain of unresolved personal injury: whether it is from childhood, a relationship, a war, or from racism or sexism etc.
This does not mean you don’t try and change the circumstances, it means you release the victimization formatting that happened internally during and after harsh experiences. Then you can be fully In the present and claim your power for positive action in the world in a way you choose, without creating more hate and suffering. Suffering is held pain. Suffering is also caused by energetically holding on to any form of anger from mild resentment all the way to hate. Forgiveness is a way of reclaiming your own essence of Love and distributing it to all the places inside of you that were traumatized or injured.
When a person forgives, she (he) increases her personal power as she reclaims love, compassion and acceptance for herself as well as for others. Forgiveness helps heal the suffering caused by a painful incident. Self forgiveness is included in this because some people (especially women) tend to blame themselves and then punish themselves in some form.
When you hold on to the thoughts, underlying beliefs and emotional pain from unresolved personal injuries you lengthen the period of suffering. Whether it is from childhood or a relationship, a war, or from racism or sexism etc. This does not mean you don’t try and change the circumstances, it means you release the victimization formatting in your mind (thoughts of anger, helplessness etc) and emotional energy that happened internally during and after these events that is still unprocessed. This will help free you from the past and empower you to take productive action in the world—in the way you choose—without creating more hate and suffering. A lot of suffering comes from a continual recycling of hate, anger, grief, rage and beliefs and feelings of helplessness, powerlessness and revenge that often accompany the anger and rage. Forgiveness is a way of pulling energy out of the past and re-investing it in the present and a better future.
Energetically holding on to any form of anger─from mild resentment all the way to hate‑ creates more suffering. Forgiveness is a way of reclaiming your own essence of love and distributing love to all the places inside of you that were traumatized or injured. It is a process and usually occurs over time and in stages. In my work with severely abused people, the ones who chose forgiveness made the most rapid progress. Along the way they did acknowledge and work through their anger and pain. They did not deny it. They accepted their feelings and then transformed the thoughts, beliefs and emotional charges so the past lost its negative influence on them. This accelerated a new experience of life with more joy in the moment. As they changed their beliefs and thoughts about themselves and the world, new kinds of people, relationships, work and living situations developed. When self-concepts stemming from destructive criticism, victimization, abandonment and betrayal changes, many gifts and abilities which were previously submerged and undervalued open and can be creativity used for manifesting a more joyful life.
Forgiveness also helps release your negative connection to the persons who you feel have wronged you. This brings your energy back to yourself. In energy terms, this will release negative energetic ties to people you don’t like and help stop and begin repairing the damage done by the emotions of anger, helplessness and grief instead of keeping them recycling through your emotional and then physical body. Every emotion has a chemical component that affects the physical body. Although you might not be aware of “chording” unless you are energetically sensitive, it still can affect your health and energy. Chords are like wires of energy that flow between people and get hooked into different energy centers or parts of the body. In clearing these it is important to look inside and see what your belief and/or emotion is that allows the hook. If you want to know more about this please send me an email and I will write about it on my blog: http://retune.wordppress.com
By having a part of us lean into forgiveness we begin to mobilize ourselves towards freedom. It took Moses’ followers forty years to change their patterns of victimization and shift out of the slave mentality. We now have the power to do it much faster if we are able to embrace ourselves from the soul level. If we are able to accept the feelings from those situations, learn from them what “not love” feels like, (on earth we often learn the value of something by experiencing its opposite) and then choose to embrace our selves with love we can transform the sadness, anger hate and pain back to love. It is how we rise out of victimization, shame, hurt and powerlessness to regain our full glory.
Sometimes there is a part of us that is scared of opening up and feeling or knowing something that will really help set us free. This can happen for a variety of reasons. Perhaps we were too young to know how to handle the situation, so we made a judgment that it was too scary to feel or deal with, but now we can easily handle it. Or maybe energy was needed to get through a physically challenging situation and now the healing and integration is needed. Perhaps other's shamed or blamed us and a part of us believes that we are unworthy in some way. A self-judgment or belief can serve as a lock that prevents healing and forgiveness can provide the key. To find and transform the energy that was locked we have to feel safe and be willing to have compassion for ourselves and not judge ourselves as we explore deeply. It is love that heals and if you have the intention to use the past and all experiences for growth, then you can learn from each experience and the truth of it does set you free. So if you notice that when using these meditations or any of the tools there is one section where you always go unconsciousness, where you never remember, that can sometimes be an indication that there is a place that is locked and some part of you is avoiding facing and healing it.
If you feel this is happening, check the articles on dealing with fear and resistance. Put Links here If there was a lot of trauma, such as violence and sexual abuse I strongly suggest having professional assistance along with using these Inner Movies. And it is important to have someone that you feel safe with.
Most people feel more and more comfortable and enjoy the bodily sensations as they get deeply relaxed and their brainwaves shift into more efficient healing states. If you experience anxiety, restlessness or discomfort after the meditation starts this can be a signal of emerging emotions. Simply take a deep breath, allow the feelings to flow across you and release and keep your mind focused on your breath and know that these sensations will dissolve as you go deeper into the meditation. Notice the thoughts that arise if you get anxious, they can be an important key and tool in your healing. Sometimes when we release old energetic patterns there are held emotions, thought forms and old beliefs or judgments, and often as they begin to arise there is what feels like a coating of fear around them. But as you stay aware and breath through them they will shift and dissolve. These sensations are normal when healing victimization abandonment and betrayal patterns. If you have further questions please take a few moments before you start your meditation to review the small booklet included with this CD. If you were severly abused and there was a lot of trauma, on any level, physical, emotional and psychological I suggest working with a professional who understands healing trauma, as it is very important to experience a safe place and a trusted person to do that kind of deep healing.