Forgiveness

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The act of self-forgiveness changes the energy and physical

structures of your cells, and of your DNA. Guilt is a very powerful

and deadening emotion. Guilt in itself can, as it were, close down

the energy systems of your body, and thereby lessen, and in extreme

cases, cut off the flow of Divine Energy and Love to the body

entirely. Because each and every one of your cells has consciousness,

they too can carry the essence and energy of guilt within them that

makes their energy denser.

With this denser energy that flows throughout the body and in the

nuclei of the cells themselves, the illnesses that you have worked

upon in your striving towards spiritual growth and enlightenment,

leave a residue. Although to you, they have been cured. This residue

that is held in the body through lack of self-forgiveness, acts like

a blueprint for the creation of the same or similar illnesses. It is,

however, possible that this blueprint of denser energy can migrate

from one part of the body to another.

This is how it works. You follow a spiritual discipline and you

choose to work consciously upon one are of growth or another, or even

on a particular illness, or on forgiving a particular person. You do

the energy work, and what you see as the forgiveness work, but in

doing so, you concentrate more on releasing the other and forgiving

the other without really working on the real issue of forgiving

yourself. Many of you are doing this half heartedly because the part

of you that is now spiritually aware, condemns the other parts for

having been so wrong and for having wasted so much time. I cannot

express the importance of self- forgiveness enough, for self

forgiveness and self acceptance are the keys to surviving the

upheavals of a turbulent world. Forgiveness of the self and

acceptance of the self have a direct positive influence upon the

functioning of the immune system.

Many assume that the act of self-forgiveness to improve your health

causes a conflict of motives. They assume that they will only forgive

for the reason of improving their own health. However, I say to you,

that the act of forgiveness itself, and I speak especially of self-

forgiveness, will bring you more in contact with the light of your

soul, where there is no conflict of motives. The very fabric of the

Universe is love and light, and in order that love and light may flow

to the places where love and light cannot, the flow must be opened to

even more flow. Forgiveness is one of the universal qualities of

grace that helps to unblock and allow love and light to flow. The act

of self forgiveness and the process that you go through on physical,

emotional and mental levels will teach you much about the workings of

the human psyche. Therefore, it will enable and empower you to

embrace others with compassion and true forgiveness. True forgiveness

can only come from a guiltless heart, from a soul that has truly

forgiven itself and is in the full light of self acceptance. So what

is forgiveness? How can we learn to forgive and what is the process

behind forgiveness? Many of you are afraid to begin the process of

forgiveness because your motives seem unclear, and then you feel that

you are not really forgiving. Forgiveness is choosing to change a

thought, belief and an emotion with respect to other people and

situations. As everything in the Universe is energy, forgiveness is

also a process of transforming energy. Forgiveness is a choice as is

not forgiving. When there is someone in your life that you think you

cannot forgive, then the energy of that person and situation remains

within your aura. This means quite simply, that forgiveness is like

any other process of self-healing. For forgiveness in itself is a

process of untangling those parts of the mental and the emotional

bodies that are tangled up in the denser energies that the situation

with the other person carries. In addition to this, there are lines

of energy that exists between you and every other person you have

ever had an exchange with, no matter how trivial these exchanges may

have seemed. In essence, your aura carries with it energetic memory

and this is what triggers intuition, déjà vu and sometimes warning

bells.

So when you find it impossible to forgive another, you remain

energetically connected to that person. Therefore, you are allowing

the pain, the abuse and the trauma to remain with you. This, my

dears, is a choice. Forgiveness is not something that you can or

cannot do. It is simply a matter of choosing to change your thoughts,

beliefs and ideas about a given situation or person in your life.

Forgiveness is the most important aspect of your spiritual growth,

and it is the forgiveness of the self that hands you the key to the

light of your soul. When you go to see a healer, or doctor you are in

essence taking part in the practice of self- forgiveness. This is so,

because the active healing releases energies that had been solidified

within your aura and the healing takes place based upon either a

conscious or subconscious decision to forgive yourself or another.

All is energy in the Universe, so free yourself from the question of

motivation when it comes to forgiveness. Many of you who have been on

a path of spiritual growth for some time, see the benefits of

bringing more light into your aura and don't question your motives

for working consciously on your aura as energy. So why question

working on yet another aspect of the Universe that is also energy? It

is your intention to live in more light that counts. The Guides and

Spiritual Masters do not look at all the misconceptions of the

personality; we experience the intent of the soul.

In essence beloved ones, by not forgiving another, or by not allowing

their energy to leave you, you are allowing the pain and the abuse to

continue. It is as simple as that. So the only decision that you have

to make regarding forgiveness is this: Am I willing to let go of the

pain and abuse, or will I allow this person or situation to persecute

me for the rest of this life?

Additionally, the act of forgiveness also allows the other person to

move on, be they still in your environment, another city or town, or

even in another dimension. When you change the energy pattern that

this person or event has stimulated you to create in your aura, then

you also let go of this person on an energetic level. Until the

moment you are able to forgive and release a person from guilt, or

from the responsibility for your pain, this person remains

energetically aligned with you at one or more levels. Forgiveness

creates harmony in the Universe because you are handing the other

person a passport to more freedom and joy. In doing so you are buying

for yourself a first class ticket on a journey to paradise.

In essence, if you have been raped, physically or sexually abused, or

verbally denigrated by a parent, teacher or other authority figure,

you are still living as the raped, the abused and the denigrated by

not forgiving and letting go of these people and situations. You can

choose to live your life with another identity if you so wish. This

is a choice.

Many of you believe that you have to in some way greet the person or

meet them on a physical level in order to truly forgive them. This is

not so. Their higher self also allows them to be in the situation

where they become the abuser for the purpose of their own spiritual

growth. Although it may be difficult for you to accept, your abuser

truly does have a Higher Self and a Soul that loves you. This Higher

Self is aware of your non-forgiveness and of your forgiveness. It

will assist the personality to grow as a response to the energetic

changes you will make in the process of forgiveness. So, although you

may never see someone again, they will know on a deeper level that

you have released them to grow and to move on. It is also true of

those people in your life who you are yet to truly forgive, and who

are no longer focused within physical reality. These souls who have

passed on to other worlds and dimensions can often become more

sensitive on a conscious level of your lack of forgiveness towards

them. One of the greatest gifts that you can give someone who abused

you whilst physically present on Earth is to release them with joy

and with forgiveness. This allows them to move further in their

growth.

Realize, beloved ones, that the world is a stage and that YOU chose

all the actors, and the scenes, also of your childhood before you

arrived. You, together with the Souls of your abusers and tormentors

wrote the script together. It is up to you whether you allow the soap

opera to be repeated time and time and time again.

For many people forgiveness is one of the hardest steps of all in our

progress toward freedom of spirit. Yet it is essential. For as long

as we are unable to forgive, we keep ourselves chained to the

unforgiven. We give them rent-free space in our minds, emotional

shackles on our hearts, and the right to torment us in the small

hours of the night. When it is time to move on, but still too hard,

try some or all of these steps. (Note that these steps are

appropriate for events resulting from an ongoing adult relationship

with anyone. They may not all be appropriate for the random act of

violence from a stranger, nor for someone who was abused as a child

or while in some other position of true helplessness.)

1. Understand that forgiving does not mean giving permission for the

behavior to be repeated. It does not mean saying that what was done

was acceptable. Forgiveness is needed for behaviors that were not

acceptable and that you should not allow to be repeated.

2. Recognize who is being hurt by your non-forgiveness. Does the

other person burn with your anger, feel the knot in your stomach,

experience the cycling and recycling of your thoughts as you re-

experience the events in your mind? Do they stay awake as you

rehearse in your mind what you would like to say or do to 'punish'

them? No, the pain is all yours.

3. Do not require to know 'why' as a prerequisite to forgiveness.

Knowing why the behavior happened is unlikely to lessen the pain,

because the pain came at a time when you did not know why.

Occasionally there are times when knowing why makes forgiveness

unncessary, but they are rare. Don't count on it and don't count on

even the perpetrator knowing why.

4. Make a list of what you need to forgive. What was actually done

that caused your pain? Not what you felt, what was done.

5. Acknowledge your part. Were you honest about your hurt or did you

hide the fact that the behavior hurt you? Did you seek peace by

reassuring the perpetrator that it was all right? Did you stay when

you could or should have left? If so, then you, too, have some

responsibility. (Here you start to move away from being a victim.)

6. Make a list of what you gained from the relationship, whatever

form of relationship it was. Looking back you may be focusing on the

negatives, the hurts. Yet if they were repeated, you must have stayed

to allow the repetition. You did not remove yourself. Why? There must

have been some positives if you chose to stay around. What were they?

7. Write a letter to the person (no need to mail it). Acknowledge

what you gained from the relationship, and express forgiveness for

the hurts. Allow yourself to express all your feelings fully. Do not

focus only on the hurts.

8. Create a ceremony in which you get rid of your lists and the

letter, so symbolizing the ending of the link between you. You may

choose to visualize placing them on a raft and watching it drift

gently away down a river. You may prefer to burn them and scatter the

ashes. You may invent some other form of ritualized separation.

9. Visualize the person you are forgiving being blessed by your

forgiveness and, as a result, being freed from continuing the

behavior that hurt you.

10. Now that you have freed yourself from the painful links and

released the pain, feel yourself growing lighter and more joyous. Now

you are free to move on with your life without that burden of

bitterness. Do not look back in anger.

Exercise in forgiveness

Take a deep breath into the lower belly and breathe out again as if

you are letting go of all your daily cares and worries. Do this

several times. Begin also to breathe into the upper chest and imagine

for yourself that the back of your neck is opening, creating a tunnel

through which energies can flow up through your body into the cosmos

and from the cosmos down through your spine into your legs and feet.

This visualization will assist you in flowing with the energies of

divine and creative essence.

Next visualize a light in the centre of your chest, your Heart

Centre. See this light becoming brighter and brighter as you continue

to breathe into the upper chest. Start opening your heart even

further and allow more and more light to flow in and out of this

centre of divine love. Imagine the most beautiful light that you

possibly can visualize, be it white, gold or any other combination of

colors that you feel express the love within your heart. Continue

with this visualization until you feel that you are centered within

yourself and are at peace with yourself and the world.

Now imagine that you are standing or sitting in the middle of a

triangle that is composed of rods of golden light. See how bright,

shimmering, and radiant that these rods of golden light are. Notice

that these rods are of a higher vibration than you normally

experience, and feel the energy that they are transmitting to you as

you sit or stand in the middle of this triangle.

Now visualize for yourself that rods of golden energy are coming out

of your heart, and are attaching themselves to each of the points of

the triangle. You are now one with the triangle. Place at one of the

points of the triangle the image of someone that you love very

dearly, and send them your wishes of love and peace, and feel how

this love reverberates around the triangle, and feel how every

particle of light within the triangle and yourself begins to resonate

with this love. In another point of the triangle place the image of

someone or something that you hold very dear to yourself. This can be

a favorite pet, your guide, the image of an angel, or your favorite

landscape. Use your imagination. And allow the same resonance of love

to emanate from your heart towards this corner, and feel how the

intensity of the entire triangle is stepped up in vibration.

Finally, place the image of someone that you have not yet forgiven

into the remaining corner of the triangle and feel how the resonance

of love flows automatically towards this person from around the

triangle and from your heart. Concentrate once more on the first two

corners of the triangle and allow the resonance of love to flow

automatically around the triangle, and become this triangle of love.

You may do this exercise as often as you feel is appropriate. The

purpose of this exercise is to raise the vibration of any energy you

are holding in your aura from other people and situations in your

life that you are yet to let go of. This exercise is the beginning of

discovering Mastership, for true Masters transform all energies into

light. Welcome on the path of the Masters.

Forgiving The Self

Forgiveness of self is the most fundamental aspect of spiritual

growth. It cannot be overlooked whilst on the path of ascension out

of the denser energies of fear and guilt that have enveloped this

planet for many millennia. Humanity carries deep within its cells the

vibration and frequency of guilt and shame that is acting as a wall

of doubt between the personality self and the soul self.

This shame originated at the point at which humanity began to

question its own validity and place within the Universe. It

originated at the point in which the intuitive mind asked itself ?

Who Am I ? as illustrated in the Genesis parable. The shame that you

have all felt over millennia has now reached a point of

transformation. It is coming free from the cellular structure and the

aura of humanity. This shame originated from the time that an amnesia

set in, so that the experiment of exercising free will to create love

as co-creating gods could begin

I have said that there are only two true emotions present within your

world, they are love and fear. Love is the only true emotion, and it

forms the building block with which Light and all matter is created.

Fear came into existence when you began to experience separation from

the Light and therefore felt the illusory separation from the source

of Love. As this fear gradually built up over the millennia, and from

incarnation to incarnation, humanity began to back itself into a

corner of fear from where many lashed out in violent acts, as if to

defend themselves from imagined enemies. The true fear has always

been: God doesn't love me, I am alone, abandoned, and I am not worthy.

With these two fears firmly in place, mankind began inventing

external gods to which he had to measure up to, please, or get the

approval of, in order to be counted worthy. This has lead to wars,

violence, a belief in limitation and scarcity, poverty and

hopelessness on the planet. As a result of these beliefs, humanity

has also set about defending itself from the imaginary enemies that

lie within these beliefs. This in turn has lead to acts of great

cruelty, torture and torment that have been wrought against all life

forms, against fellow humans and against Earth herself. The illusion

of separation from the Godhead has created an atmosphere of fear that

is indeed visible to us from the Higher Realms, and has caused

humanity to being lost within a mist, or a veil, of illusion for a

very long period of time.

Now is the time to begin removing these layers of denser energies

that are self generating the fear. You can do this by moving into a

space of self forgiveness. Many of you are carrying layers of shame

and fear within your aura and cells and much of this shame is not

even rationally explicable, even to yourselves, because it has lain

energetically within you with no apparent cause.

The first step in forgiving the self is being willing to let go of

shame. It is being willing to move beyond limitation and fear, and

accepting that, just maybe, God does love and approve of you as a

child of the light. It means being willing to accept your divinity,

and being willing to exercise compassion towards yourself. Once you

have stated your willingness to do these things, and have set your

intention to release all pain, guilt and shame from your being, and

then your soul, supported by the higher forces of light in the

Universe, can go to work assisting you to release all your pain to

the light. However, it is not until you state your intention and your

willingness to release yourself, that the Universe can do anything to

help you. This is a Universe of free will and if it is your choice to

remain in fear, then there is nothing that can be done to alleviate

that. The Universe always empowers those that express deliberate

intent.

From the perspective of the Higher Realms of Light, there is not one

thing that you could have done in this life, or in another, that

would hold the heavenly hosts and your soul back in giving you their

love and light, or that would cause them to judge or condemn you in

any way. You are the only one that is capable of judging yourself, or

of punishing yourself. Un- conditional love begins with the self, as

does forgiveness.

We cannot emphasize enough, how important it will be over the coming

years, to release all guilt and shame from your body, because the

Earth changes that are taking place activate and intensify any

energies that are present. Therefore, if you concentrate on beauty,

peace, abundance and health, then these things will increase.

Likewise, if you concentrate on fear, poverty, danger, and disease,

then these things will increase. The very nature of matter, and the

energies present, upon this planet are changing. With these changes,

the power of your thoughts is also increasing. The energies present

are becoming more fluid and supple, reacting more swiftly to your

thoughts and desires, therefore, your thoughts and feelings are able

to have a greater effect than previously possible. You can choose to

use this power for the greater good of all by focusing on the

goodness in your life.

Exercise in self forgiveness

For the process of self forgiveness, a daily practice of meditation

is recommended, where you can become quiet and will not be disturbed

for at least twenty minutes. Make this time special for yourself,

play your favorite soft and relaxing music, maybe light some candles

or burn some incense. Do whatever it is that helps you to feel

peaceful and centered. As you begin this meditation, state your

intention that you are willing to release all pain, guilt and shame

from your body and energy systems and that you call upon the Forces

of Light in the Universe to assist you in this release work. Close

your eyes, quiet your breathing, and imagine a bright white and

golden light entering your body through the crown of your head.

Gradually bring this light with your breath to every part and cell of

your body and visualize that any dense, grey energies are released

and cleansed by the light.

Finally thank yourself and the light for the transformation that has

taken place.