The Ability to forgive: A free pass to happiness

I will ask something from you at this very moment.  In order to deliver a message properly, the messenger needs total attention and so does the recipient of such message. Are you with me?  Did I get your undivided attention? I know I did. Thank You!

Prior to beginning, I want you to repeat in a voice loud and clear, the following sentences:

” Before I can forgive others, I forgive and love myself, here and now. I accept myself as a good person and I promise not to hurt myself ever again. I forgive all that needs my forgiveness; situations, grudges, bad memories, animals and people. Just as God has forgiven my every flaw and mistake, I lovingly forgive, forget and bury the hatchet for good”

Do not feel ashamed to say it out loud. It is imperative you do it for it`s a clear call to your conscious self. Do not just repeat it like a parrot; feel every word in your heart as intent is extremely crucial. If you have just scanned through the words, go back and do it properly. C`mon now!

Good! Forgiveness has always been taken for granted. People think that by uttering the phrase “I forgive you”, everything is all right again. Unfortunately, it is not so.  Your intent has to be as sincere and strong as your self-same desire to live.

Furthermore, when you say “I’ll forgive you but I won’t forget”, you’ve already defeated the whole purpose of forgiveness. Didn’t the Christ say: “Turn your other cheek”?  I know, I know. Some of you may be thinking: “how can I forget all the harm done to me?”

What you do not know is the fact that by clinging to a feeling of resentment or rancor, you will be forever chained to that negative vibration, and the more you feed it, the harder to forget it; the deeper it gets ingrained within your soul, the longer it will eat you up inside alive.

Even worse, rancor or resentment metamorphoses into hatred, and your life and its surroundings start to get more poisoned by the minute. I imagine many of you think: “Oh, really? and how about if someone murdered my mother, or a son?”  I will ask you: will your hatred bring them back to life? Will you be willing to stop living and feed on your bloodthirsty vengeance and believe you’ll get something out of it?

You know the answer. You cannot price yourself as a child of God and pretend to go above His law and administer justice. Imagine if it were like this. The morgues wouldn’t be enough to house so many corpses daily.  You probably also think I’ve never experienced something close to that. Well, let me tell you, there is where you are wrong.

Because I went through similar experiences, I decided to write this hub. Because for many years my life was a living hell, planning, in my then deranged mind how to murder back the perpetrators. One of my closest cousins whom I grew up with was framed and murdered in cold blood.

I was at home sleeping, but being the one who has the lightest sleep, the phone woke me up, at about 1 am, to hear from another relative that Carlos had been found in a pool of blood, shot down by some thugs. The worst part was, that my aunt, who incidentally is also my godmother, and Carlos`s mother, was staying at home that weekend.

I couldn’t hold my anger, my sadness, it was a terrible mixture of emotions and I just wanted to hurt somebody badly. My aunt’s screams woke up everybody in the neighborhood, she wept inconsolably for hours on end. My mother was devastated, my Grandma was in shock. Those were horrible moments. From that point on, my aunt became a devoted Christian and swore she would never ever hate again.

Success and Prosperity, Abundance and Achievement, are forever linked to chain reactions, like ripples on the tranquil waters of a lake; forgiveness is the booster. Without it, those four will not last or will disappear as quickly as they came.

Look at these little charts for a second:

Being unforgiving-- Rancor & Resentment--Hatred--Anger--Lack of peace--Stress--Disease--

Weakening--Might cause death.

Can you be prosperous or happy if you are dead? Spiritually or

Otherwise?

Forgiveness--Understanding--Peace--Solidarity--True care--Love--

Creativity--Natural flow of things--Abundance--Achievement--

Prosperity--Success

It isn`t hard to understand, is it? In the first case, all becomes a vicious circle that would get darker, heavier and destructive. In the second case, all follows a natural flow and we are rewarded with all the wonders of the spirit as The Great Architect has always intended for us to have as our Divine given right.

So, what`s gonna be? The choice is too obvious, right? Remember one thing: NOTHING EVER JUSTIFIES RETURNING THE BLOW. It will create an endless chain reaction. The Law of Cause and Effect or Boomerang Law, will tear you apart beyond repair. I am not joking here, friends!

Now, I want to share with you now an incredible method I learned from a great woman from Puerto Rico: Muñeca Geigel

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Three times a day, during the next seven days, repeat the following affirmations:

I__(your name)____ want to forgive everyone

I (your name)____want to forgive all the experiences of my past

I (your name)____ want to forgive myself

I (your name)____ forgive freely and completely. I release and let go so

God within me and my brothers can act. I give God all my aggravations,

my hatred, my resentments, my guilt trips, my criticism, my rage; so

they may be transformed in the Forgiving Love of God within me, and

all the erroneous thoughts that keep me living in fear and do not let

me prosper, can vanish. Forgiving and letting go, I turn myself

prosperous, my mind opens itself to well-being and abundance which

are mine by conscious right.

Three times a day, during the next seven days, repeat the following affirmation: “Since I am surrounded and protected by God’s Love,

I (your name)____ decide in this sacred instant to stop hurting myself”

A few last remarks:

• Plan carefully to do this mental diet and practice forgiveness, the sooner the better.

• Silence is Golden. I repeat this line in almost every one of my hubs because it is extremely important.

• The difficulty of this mental diet relies in the fact that if you fail one day because of laziness, lack of will, or anger, you have to start from day one.

• It isn’t easy. If it were the world would be a paradise and I wouldn’t be here sharing this with you.

• I guarantee you one thing: If you truthfully succeed in completing this mental diet, you will have changed your life forever. Nothing will stop you from being happy.

• If you fail and have to start again, what does it matter? Good things take time and patience. Use that to reinforce your purpose.

God will always be next to you in this endeavor.Trust Him and you will succeed.

May the Light illuminate your path and let you find your true self,

with all my love for everyone of you,

Al

The strength of a man is not in his pride but in his humility
The strength of a man is not in his ability to condemn but in his ability to forgive and forget
The strength of a man is not in hiding his weaknesses but in accepting them as an integral part of his being
The strength of a man is not being self-sufficient but in recognizing the necessity of working in a team
The strength of a man is not concealing his tears but in knowing when to weep
You may not be perfect just try to be
You may not have all the answers but try to find them....

Mystique

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