Forgiveness

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.