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Thursday, August 12, 2010

The power of forgiveness

  Triumph.  Forgiving is one of the hardest hurdles to clear in the path towards peace of mind.  No one can claim to be at peace and still have ill feelings towards another.  The ill feelings only lay dormant in our subconscious, waiting to be released.  Forgiving is not forgetting, it is simply acknowledging the flawed human element in us all and taking steps to avoid whatever the charge from happening again.  What sense does it make to hold on to the situation without an effective plan or method to discard it?  You can best believe it probably doesn't affect the perpetrator.

  Forgiving allows me to control the situation over my transgressor by elevating my spirit to a place of balance or a place free of stress.  Soon what we carry will start to reflect in us physically to the point where we become sick either physically or mentally.  It is even difficult to have a functioning relationship with the creator holding on to pain.  I wrote this to medicate myself.  I have resentment from childhood that lashes out in several different ways, sometime uncontrollable.  I have children now and I cannot allow them to suffer from my experiences.  They must grow and develop a relationship with this world on their own but with with the direction of their Mothers and their Baba.

So these two reasons are why we must forgive:

1.  To seize control over the situation from the transgressor
2. To not allow the poison to affect our children

  We have healing to do and we must be healed ourselves first and foremost. We cannot even begin to heal with conscious and subconscious demons lurking in the abyss of our souls.

Seek the proper healing and be a whole human being as the creator created you to be.

"I No Longer Want To Hold On, To That Which Doesn't Make Me Strong!"-Rachelle Ferrel

Ase' O