Forgiveness Sets You Free

For many people, forgiveness is difficult, they wrongly associate forgiveness with weakness and victimhood. Those people are wrong.

There is great power in forgiveness. To forgive is a way of welcoming transformation in your life and will set you free.

Forgiveness, while it may seem to be an act of kindness to someone who has wronged you is, in fact, an act of kindness and compassion for yourself. Forgiveness is the only thing that can free you from the past.

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful and significant spiritual tools to transform your life. Forgiveness is an act that has a dual benefit. It benefits the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven. It is freeing and releasing.

If you forgive someone only to free yourself and let yourself move forward in life, forgiveness still has a powerful impact energetically in both mysterious and powerful ways. Forgiveness influences the karmic connection between you in another in ways beyond conscious awareness and experience.

Forgiving releases old attachment to the past and frees you to enter into present time. By forgiving, you open the opportunity for a positive change in your perspective, your understanding and your consciousness. You create the possibility for a new and better way for things to be.”
– Genevieve Gerard

Stop Being Trapped In The Past

When you forgive someone, you are no longer trapped in the hurts of the past. You are released and are free to begin a process of healing. You ignite and empower your life simply by having chosen to let go of what is in the past. That opens you to the present, to the NOW, to the unlimited potential of freedom, the freedom to be present and thereby experience what is now available, what is possible.

To choose not to forgive is weighing your present down with chains that keep you from being able to grow, to thrive, live fully and be free. That is a choice you can change today.

Amazingly, no matter how long you have clung to the pain, sorrow, and resentment of old wrongs, once you forgive, you can be released immediately.

You may feel a lightness, a peacefulness, a sense of being more centered or empowered.

The past, which you may have clung to relentlessly immediately losses its power over your life. In fact, forgiveness has such a positive and empowering influence in your life that I have often thought that forgiving is an act of self-love. Give forgiveness, not for the one who has wronged you, but for yourself.

Forgiveness opens you to a consciousness that is Divine in nature and aligns you with Love, Truth, and Grace. When you hold an unforgiving mind, you are trapped within focusing not only on how you have been wronged but also on thoughts of failure, sin, and separation from God.

The Course In Miracles puts it this way,
“Forgiveness is the key to Happiness.”
-pg.250 workbook for students.

Forgiveness opens you to a consciousness that allows you to experiment and make mistakes in life in full faith and confidence that you are a beloved child of God having the adventure to learn and explore all that life offers. You claim that power immediately when you forgive. By forgiving you automatically and spontaneously are provided forgiveness.

You don’t have to be perfect. You are not expected to be perfect. You are a human being, a being created in matter, and endowed with a spark of Divine Light.

Your life has a purpose in the Divine Plan of evolution. Learning and growing throughout life can be messy. It is O.K. to make mistakes. In fact, it is expected that you will make mistakes. That is how a human being transforms and its Soul learns.

Life lessons and life learning rely upon forgiveness as an energetic flow that allows you the freedom from the past and ushers you into the possibilities and potential of what is being created and emerging in front of you.

Not forgiving traps you outside of that free-flowing energy. Forgiveness opens you up again and relegates the past into the past where is the only place the wrong or harm exists.

Don’t Forget to Forgive Yourself

Forgiving others is important. However, it is also important to forgive yourself. To forgive yourself may seem to be the more difficult thing to do; still, it is of vital importance. To deny yourself self-forgiveness is to reject both the power and energy of grace and in a way which denies the very power and nature of God.

You can forgive yourself of past mistakes and foolishness or wallow in your shame and guilt, or you can forgive yourself. You can examine and explore your past and learn from the error of your ways. It is never too late to make a new start.

Each morning brings a new day, an opportunity to start anew and open to new possibilities. You can live your new life, one day at a time. This is always possible. In fact, that is the only way anyone can live, one day at a time. Forgiveness and self-forgiveness give you that gift.

The Essence of Love is Forgiveness

The nature of God is Love. The quality and essence of Love is forgiveness.

Refusing to accept God’s Love or forgiveness is refusing to accept life. Forgiveness wields the power of growth, transformation, and healing. When you forgive someone, you are opening to a dynamic force of healing and transformation. It empowers you and frees you as it enables and frees the person you forgive.

Forgiveness is an essential ingredient of Love. The life adventure of the Soul is learning and ultimately understanding how to Love; therefore, learning to forgive is vital. You can waste a lot of life shaming and blaming, or you can choose to learn to forgive. You can let go of past sorrows and open to the new possibilities that are emerging before you in the present.

Life and indeed the Law of Karma requires that you get the lesson until you learn the lesson. You don’t need to waste your energy on shame and guilt. You can pick yourself up and forgive your mistake and go forth and not make that mistake again. Demonstrating what you have learned becomes a vital part of incorporating a life lesson into your consciousness.

Over the experiences of life, you learn and grow. You become a better person, a wiser person, a more enlightened and aware person. Along the way, forgiveness is important for it opens you to the present and only in the present can you take on the next challenge and lesson life is offering you.

Forgiveness Techniques

It is clear that in life the energies of Love and forgiveness are entwined with gratitude and appreciation. A great example of this is the forgiveness technique of the Hawaiian cultures. A powerful forgiveness technique that comes to us from the Hawaiian shaman is a simple repletion of three simple phrases:

Thank you

I Love you

Please forgive me

These phrases come from the practice of Hoʻoponopono [ho-o-pono-pono] which is an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness.

I have found adding the words:

I forgive you

I’m sorry

Add to the effectiveness of the technique.

Remember that with the technique of forgiveness you are releasing both you and the one you felt wronged you from the actions of the past and are allowing transformation and healing to take place to set yourself free.

Today’s challenges are sufficient for today. Open your life to the new possibilities and potential that are coming to you today. Claim those possibilities and let your potential come into manifestation with the power of living in the present moment.

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!