Living Peace

Forgiveness unbinds us. It frees the energy we waste ruminating over the un-forgiven person or event, to be used in positive ways. It allows us to transmute negative energy into the energy of love. To forgive is to allow our Self to feel comfortable in the presence of others, including the person toward whom we have born a grievance. True forgiveness erases the negative feelings that tend to arise when we are in the presence of an individual we believe has wronged us. It does not eradicate the memory of the event. We retain the wisdom and learning achieved through the experience, and release ourselves from negative or defensive reactions. When we have let anger go, we have moved one more step toward a state of being in oneness and understanding. Sometimes the anger will raise its head again at an unexpected time, even when we believe we have already done the work of forgiving. When this occurs we simply do the work of forgiving again.