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Meditation for Forgiveness – Release Anger & Resentment

We have ALL been hurt in some way by others. No one on this planet gets a free pass on hurt. There is no way to avoid the hurt of life, but there is magic balm that helps soothe and heal the hurt, making it hurt much less over time. And that is – Forgiveness. 

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” Nelson Mandela


Take it from a man who knows – holding bitterness and resentment in our hearts towards those who have hurt us never helps. It only serves to deepen the wound and trap us in the prison of it’s painful scar. 


Forgiveness is a way out of that prison – a prison that we may very well have been put in unjustly by someone else, but one that we always have the keys to via the power of forgiveness.


Forgiveness is freedom. 


But it does not come easy. Anger, resentment and bitterness are indeed much much easier go tos. And since they are incredibly strong, forceful and automatic emotional responses, it can be all too easy to get caught up in their vortex.


Forgiveness takes practice. It takes patience, it takes awareness, it takes slowing down and sitting through the discomfort of those intoxicating emotions. Those whirlwind emotions and reactions that erroneously seem to offer a quick and easy way out of the hurt prison – just hate that person even more; call them an evil B; a vile a-hole, and then somehow that will release you of your pain….!? 

It never works, does it?
Of course it doesn’t.

Good thing we have some wonderful tools for practicing forgiveness – Meditation and Ourselves. 
Just as we have all been on the sharp end of the sword and been hurt by someone, we have, all, also been the ones holding the sword. 

We are all fallible, flawed and messy human beings and without a doubt we have mucked it up along the way with others

(If you’re a parent, this happens at least once a week day with your kid/s!)

What’s so great about going deep into our own muck ups and imperfection? It gives us a wonderful opportunity to practice, over and over again, compassion and forgiveness with ourselves. This then builds up our skill and our reserves so that we can have heaping amounts of forgiveness available for others; for the scars we have already endured and, for the inevitable sharp swords that most certainly, will be pointed at us once again.

CLICK HERE and let’s practice forgiveness together.

As always, I love to hear from you in the comments so meet me over there and let me know – who do you need to forgive most?

With so much love,

Carolyn