The Power of Forgiveness

The majority of people would rather die than forgive. “Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong” says Mahatma Gandhi. Only the courageous can forgive.

The reason we so self-righteously cling to our grief is because of our minds. We need to clear our minds with loving intention in order to expose our hearts.

The belief that we are separate beings having isolated, separate experiences in this lifetime is a perception skewed by our outer fixation with everything manifest. 

The truest statement of all is:  “I am”. 

‘I’ is the relationship we have with our physical experiences here on Earth. ‘Am’ is the infinite, indestructible, unmanifest essence of who we are. Our ‘amness’ is the universal pool of energy to which we all belong. We are breathed into physical form from this energy pool and to it we will return.

‘I’ can never forgive. ‘I’ is entangled with the physical body, mind and intellect, legalities and conditions, shoulds and should nots, ego and emotions. Ego is the human playground of material wanting and one-upmanship, rightness and wrongness and persecutors and victims.

To live by law is to live by mind. Legalities forget to acknowledge the wisdom of our inherent nature which is LOVE. We need to listen to our hearts. Therein lie all the answers to our struggles - whether physical, emotional or mental.

Steer your attention away from the negativity of your mind and open yourself to the inner wisdom of your heart. Love and forgiveness are not found in the mind and in the cause and effect of our materially focused world. Forgiveness is found by bravely opening the heart in faith and surrendering to the expansiveness of ‘Unconditional Love’. 

You are the ‘amness’ having a singular human experience in physical form. Your physical experiences are impermanent. They are not who you are. Embrace change because it is the only certainty in this ever evolving world. Be brave and open your heart in faith. Face your deepest fears and surrender yourself to every experience with gratitude for the lessons to be learned, because your experiences are the evolution of you. 

When you look back in time you will realise that you manifested your fears for your personal growth, and that the mistakes you made and all the unconscious behaviour you engaged in were integral to the person you are today. 

Gratitude is the highest form of forgiveness. It says “I am thankful for my hardships and my mistakes because they made me who I am.”

How lucky I am to have lived and to have learned.

THANK YOU!

Here is an amazing video clip which I shared in my FORGIVENESS workshop on Saturday. It demonstrates the power of love and forgiveness in melting the most hardened of hearts.

Click here to view it now.
 

Love

Nicolette

P.S. Join me for the final FORGIVENESS mini workshop of 2014, this Saturday 15 November at Leafy Greens Café, 10h00 until 12h30. It is titled GRATITUDE – ‘Dance of Freedom’. 

For more details contact me via www.nicolettelodge.com or nicolette@forgiftyourself.com.