Oracle of Consciousness
# 12 - Forgiveness
Forgiveness
Ask yourself :
"How do I truly forgive
someone or myself?"
Firstly, know that forgiveness is one of the six heart values, an element of love.
How do we forgive people that have caused extreme harm towards others, damage to the planet and unto ourselves?
How do we truly forgive ourself?
Secondly, we must understand that we can only and sincerely forgive from our heart.
At the same time, we don't condone destructive behaviour.
We don't seek punishment, which doesn't rehabilitate a person and usually perpetuates the same behaviours.
Punishing ourselves is self-sabotage and we really don't want to do that either!
But we do have to remove some people from society or remove ourselves from the presence of people that are being so-called 'evil', which is really an ignorance of their own true self, that is, who they are at the core.
But we may need to keep a distance from them and more importantly, heal ourselves.
We don't ignore or fob-off harmful behaviour, but if we refuse to forgive someone, (including ourselves), it means we are separate from them, and once again, nothing or nobody is separate from us.
We are all connected.
Oh yes, I know, this is a
really big challenge!
This is where we muster up our courage, for you will see that the heart virtues don't work independently, they can, but in order to forgive somebody, you would need to have compassion, add some understanding, be really brave and courageous.
So we can mix and match the heart values, and when we put them together, we can enact true forgiveness.
Ponder this for a moment, if we're all connected, what is the possibility that this same, harmful person, isn't just an extension of us?
That maybe what they are doing, where they're causing harm to us or to others, to the environment or the earth, perhaps that's a reflection of what we may still have a little bit of lingering inside us?
Are we all Adolf Hitler's or Pol Pots, exterminating people with no conscience and reckless abandon?
I don't think so, but we might kill that mosquito cockroach, or some other life form that we dislike.
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Extermination is extermination!
Perhaps what we don't like within ourselves is being triggered by some external stimuli, something said or someone's observable behaviours?
Once again, it's really important, that we don't condone those behaviours, see them for what they are and don't make them worse.
But we do want see what is the modus-operandi behind people's behaviours and in many cases, those people that are perpetuating harm against others, against the mores of society, or against ourselves, have most likely been taught, conditioned, or exposed to exactly the same thing in their past. In short they are hurting inside.
And they then take that on as their own persona and believe that -
"I'm hurting, so if I hurt somebody else,
it will make me feel better."
Of course, it will never will.
So, in the process for forgiveness, starting with ourselves, we muster up all of the applicable elements of the heart and let the past go.
Let forgiveness occur at an energetic level.
You don't necessarily have to confront the person that has caused you harm, but let it go for you, so you're no longer stuck in the past, on your time track, regurgitating your pain.
Remember this:
Freedom is your birthright.
Ho'oponopono
The Hawaiian word ho'oponopono roughly translates to:
Making a correction in order to cause
things to move back into balance, or to make things right.
It is a traditional practice of forgiveness.
These are the simple steps to the forgiveness process:
Step 1: Take several deep breaths, relax and put your attention upon the centre of your chest to activate your energetic heart centre (Heart Chakra), in combination with your physical heart.
Step 2: Take responsibility by saying: "I'm sorry for. ..." and add whatever it was that you did to another person or persons.
If you are doing the forgiveness process on yourself, state what it was, or what you may still be doing that is harmful and degrading to you.
Step 3: Ask Forgiveness by saying: "Please forgive me. ......"
Step 4: Express your appreciation by saying: "Thank you."
Step 5: Express your love by saying: "I love you."
You may need to repeat the process several times until you experience some relief, change, or something has lifted.
You will feel it when it happens.
Continue the process on other harmful activities you may have conducted upon others and yourself and remember; you cannot change the past, so don't beat yourself up doing this process.
Final words - every one of us is doing the best we can, with the level of consciousness we have
at our disposal.
Fly free from
the past
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