Forgiveness can be very... freeing. It cleanses your mind and your soul and sets you on a healthier, happier pathway to your future. Many people refuse to forgive, thinking that to forgive is to condone what the other person did, but this is not true. Forgiveness is not about condoning what was done, it is about letting go of the pain and freeing yourself, taking back your power from the “offender”. So long as we hold on to the un-forgiveness, to the anger and hurt, we hold onto the pain the original event caused us, and we suffer the pain again and again. The “offender” may not even be in your life anymore, may not know or not care that you are still hanging on to all this old “stuff”, or might even know and think it funny. You are not hurting this person by refusing to forgive them, you are only hurting yourself.
When we forgive, we let all that pain and old “stuff” go. We release it all to the Universe and it can no longer hurt us. It no longer has any power over us when we let go of the emotional connection to the event. The “offender” doesn’t even have to know that you forgave him/her. It has nothing to do with them, it’s all about YOU.
Forgiveness is cleansing. Forgiveness is freeing. Forgiveness is a gift we give to ourselves.
2 comments:
nice post, still its very hard to do sometimes
Thanks Claire, glad you liked it. Yes, it can be very difficult to forgive sometimes. I have an issue with it around my oldest sister (I often have been known to refer to her as "my Mom's oldest daughter" to disconnect from her in all ways I can). However, with work it is getting better. I find it's not just "them" we have to forgive (for hurting us) but also, and maybe mostly ourself for allowing them to hurt us. I think we just have to forgive... then forgive again... and forgive again... each issue until finally it truly is completely forgiven.
"Simple" yes... but "easy"... no, not always.
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