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
unnecessary, 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.
Enlightenment Chapel, Inc
