Accepting the Gifts of Forgiveness
Forgiveness Comes from Love
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Forgive that you have brought so much pain on yourself with thoughts. To forgive that you have brought so much pain on yourself with thoughts, you must be mindful of where your thoughts go when no one is around. When you recognize that the pain you have experienced is of your own creation, it's a powerful acknowledgement; but the forgiveness that you have used this powerful tool against yourself is indeed the gift, because now you can take that tool and use it wisely. Rather than allowing it to tear you down, you can use it to build yourself up. When people begin to discover, "I am indeed responsible for all of my affairs, everything that has been created," they often begin to get very angry with themselves. They become very hard on themselves. They punish themselves. Forgiveness that you have brought pain on yourself by your thoughts happens once you discover you are glad you know what you have done and you stop beating yourself up for it. Here is how you can transmute negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Imagine that you are angry. You discover that in your anger you have done something really unpleasant to another or to yourself. Now, you are aware. You are going to take that anger, that upset, that fear, and you are going to swirl it around, very much like you would take a drink in a glass and swirl it. See yourself as the ice - crystal. And you move the crystalline energy. You swirl that dark judgment, that heavy negative feeling, into the crystal. As you watch the darkness, the heaviness becomes lighter, clearer, sweeter, and more beautiful. You feel the sense of lightness within yourself as you change the energy of judgment to the energy of forgiveness. Forgiveness always feels lighter. The gift is enligtenment - the sense of feeling so much better about yourself. Affirmation I bless myself for the courage of my own allowing. When you are alone, when no one is around, where do your thoughts go? What are you thinking when you believe no one else will know what you are thinking? If you are thinking something when you are by yourself that you wouldn't allow yourself to ruminate on when you are with others, it doesn't mean it is a bad thought. Are you ashamed of thinking well of yourself when others are around? Are you afraid you will get caught being critical of yourself because you know that it is inapproprite when you are with other? Being clear about what you are thinking when you are by yourself - whether it is a powerful, positive thought and you say, "I can't think that way," or whether it is a terribly negative judgment and you say, "Now I can think negative things because no one is around to catch me at it." Be clearly aware of what you might be creating that would be detrimental to yourself with your thoughts. Or, be mindful of where are you denying the powerful, positive, supportive thoughts because you worry, "What if they found out I was thinking these things? What if they found out that I was supporting myself in my mind? What if they found out?"
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This book is about revealing to yourself your own power through forgiving the idea that anyone else in your life is stronger than you are. What does acceptance of the gifts of forgiveness mean? From love flows forgiveness. In love forgiveness is received. Who can this book help? This book is for all who are seeking peace in times of crises. Key points: 1. Forgiveness means giving over, not giving up. 2. Forgiveness flows from the awareness of love. 3. Find the love within self so that forgiveness comes naturally. What are the gifts of forgiveness? You will receive a sense of freedom, a sense of personal awareness, a sense of peace and personal power. The power of peace is a part of the revelation that comes from forgiving all the limits that have kept you so occupied in the world that you couldn't understand who you are. The gift is recognizing that you have a right to something better, the right to be free, and the right to live comfortably without asking anyone else's permission. Forgiveness brings about inner illumination - enlightenment. What's the process of forgiveness? First, recognize what is required to be forgiven and understand that you are required to forgive yourself as you forgive others. Thinking, "I have nothing to forgive myself about," is delusional and a denial of your greatest capabilities. Second, be willing to allow yourself to be all right (even if you are wrong). Forgiveness doesn't make you wrong, but the ego makes you believe that if you forgive, it is an admission of giving up. Third, feel the willingness to let the situation go. Finally, realize that you are a container for greater things than you have allowed. Let yourself be filled up with a whole new viewpoint, feeling about the person or situation, and a whole new perspective of how it can work.
About the Author
Although Donna Ing wrote Keys to Remembering, she is not the same person any longer. She has grown, changed, and shifted. These changes and shifts led her to write Accepting the Gifts of Forgiveness. Where is the author now in her journey? She has changed her views and her perspective is differrent. She sees life from a new viewpoint. "The mirror is no longer about them. It's about me," she says. "The Acceptance of the Gift of Forgiveness is that it is no longer about them! I see them, but I also see myself in them. I have changed and used what I've learned." To many, applying what you have learned is a foreign concept. How are you applying what you have learned through life experiences to everyday affairs of your life? Are you applying it rationally or have you made erroneous, irrational, insane assumptions about what is going on in your life? That is how you learn from life experiences. It is very practical. I look at my laws and judgments and perceive them in a different way. To me, forgiveness is more about forgiving the perspective of limiting laws and judgments that keep me small. What I am judging in them is my perceptive of them. My ego says, "Look at what they did to me." They didn't do anything to me. They simply lived their lives and I took it personally. In order to work with all of these precepts, we are required to take a crash course in spiritual evolution. "What is really going on here?" A mind that is locked into how things have been and that's the only way it can be and there's nothing beyond that, is going to dwell in the halls of frustration. No one can work with this information for very long without it having a deep effect on them. It is vaguely disturbing even though they don't know what is disturbing them.