Forgiveness empowers Love and Ascension
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Breathing deeply and taking a moment to center I find myself profoundly aware of the increasing magnitude of the transformative energies affecting us all....(see March 2010 Archives for more about the Phase Transistion and reaching critical mass).
There are some very powerful yet simple tools any one can access now to assist in creating a smoother transition. Appreciation and Gratitude for our lives and for the gifts that we experience everyday is 
especially helpful. Another highly important process is forgiveness, especially self-forgiveness. All kinds of Forgiveness practices are major keys to successfully co-creating personal and planetary ascension. Finding the practice that works for you is the key...
Left image is Chinese Forgiveness Symbol
Like so many of you I have engaged the process of forgiveness for many years and yet I know that the most important and most challenging forgiveness process for me is to fully and completely forgive myself. It seems self-forgiveness is something that happens in layers or levels and I am always surprised to find myself revisiting issues and incidences that I thought I had completely forgiven. However, when I am honest with my human self I know I am creating opportunities to see where I can go even deeper with self-forgiveness.
There are many powerful forgiveness techniques available that create miracles in people’s lives. It is up to each of us to find the technique or techniques that work best for us. Here are three examples with links on three different forgiveness processes. Plus, I have included much much more on the benefits and the process of forgiveness and some ways to work with them in the rest of this article.
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Radical Forgiveness developed by Colin Tipping. Here is a link to the Radical Forgiveness worksheet on the Radical Forgiveness website.
Stauffer Method of Forgiveness Link
Hoʻoponopono (ho-o-pono-pono) is a simple, easy ancient Hawaiian practice of forgiveness. The distilled essence of this process is in four phrases said silently to yourself as much as possible, all the time, or whenever you remember to say it. “I love you. I am sorry. Please Forgive me. Thank you!” http://www.ancienthuna.com/ho-oponopono.htm
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfbkG97H7Q and a Ho’oponopono meditation and an interview of Dr Ihaleakala Hew Len
Here are some of the empowerment gifts Forgiveness and Self-forgiveness Provides:
Forgiveness empowers greater acceptance of self and others.
Forgiveness empowers greater love.
Forgiveness empowers personal responsibility.
Forgiveness empowers understanding and reconciliation.
Forgiveness empowers surrender and the ability to allow what IS without the need to change it or make it be different.
Forgiveness empowers our ability to have preferences while also allowing for what IS.
Forgiveness empowers reunion or sacred marriage between our human and divine selves.
Forgiveness empowers peace, plenty and illumination for all.
If we are still operating from our wounds, anger, and unresolved issues then we are not ready or able to fully receive the new light codes beaming to Earth at this time. These light codes act as a catalyst releasing the density of the past and inspiring the visions of the future. The process of forgiveness helps accelerate our ability to receive these light codes
Forgiving the unforgiveable emerges in part from the conscious realization that ultimately there are no victims. There are only co-creators and sometimes as co-creators we are unconscious of what we are co-creating. Thus, genuine forgiveness must start with us because there is nothing we have ever experienced that we did not somehow co-create either consciously or unconsciously. This does not mean those who have caused harm to others are not still responsible for what they have helped to create. It is simply a recognition that when we understand the principles of forgiveness we are no longer victims and we are awakening to the reality of greater conscious co-creation.
Genuine forgiveness is liberating and includes forgiving any harm ever thought, said or done to us by another or to ourselves. Forgiveness is an underlying key to experiencing inner peace and radiant health and well being. Genuine forgiveness is a tender, caring, loving expression of the heart that comes from great strength and willingness to let go of any judgments or actions that have caused us pain in the past.
This type of forgiveness is a conscious co-creative process where a person is choosing to release the effect of painful experiences that can unconsciously drive the choices being made. It is what helps to change how a person feels NOW regarding past experiences. It does NOT change the past experiences only how we feel about them.
This does not mean the pain another person has inflicted on you is okay, nor is it about denying your experience. It is still important to find healthy ways to express and release your rage, anger, and hurt. It is important to engage these feelings for the purpose of releasing them so they are NOT driving your life choices. This means you are no longer willing to have your life defined by the pain someone else, or you yourself, has inflicted on you. It also means you are now choosing to heal your heart through the power of forgiveness to help you let go of the pain.
When genuine forgiveness is experienced then we are capable of authentic presence in the moment.
The forgiveness process is the path for those who are ready to step into the New Earth energy of radical self-love and universal compassion. Once we have passed through the portal of genuine forgiveness our lives are forever transformed, freed from the debilitating energies of hatred, revenge, self pity, justification, judgment and blaming others.
Genuine forgiveness is possible when we can courageously and honestly examine our lives and all that we have co-created without justification, excuses, or blame, gently embracing the pain and letting it go when it is ready to go. It is often painful and requires tremendous courage to face these dark and difficult places within but the difficulty, the resulting pain when lovingly and compassionately acknowledge is the doorway to greater freedom and compassion for ourselves and others. It is not always possible to see how this will manifest but the forgiveness process is a key element in experiencing a whole new more joyful way of life.
This is about forgiving the unforgiveable that nearly everyone has experienced in some form or another whether they were betrayed, abused and tortured as a child, as a spouse, or as a prisoner of war or any number of tragic experiences. What is done is done and cannot be changed. Forgiveness however is always possible. So this is about how it affects your experience now. Those who are unwilling to forgive are living in the past at the effect of what has happened. Those who are willing to forgive liberate themselves from the past so they can live more fully in the present.
This works miracles. Letting go of self-justification and self-righteousness facilitates inner peace and well-being not only for you but for all those around you!!! I love you. I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
This punishing Saturnian view has enslaved humanity through fear and the belief that we must somehow prove ourselves to a judgmental supreme being. Again…the current economic and religious structures are designed to create greater fear and condemnation of what we do not understand.
This entire month is a great time to look deeply at what you condemn within yourself and others including the governmental structures, the religious structures, the wars, hunger, disease, pollution, big corporations, literally everything no matter how justified it seems. If you find condemnation within, then practicing forgiveness is the first step to healing it within yourself and thus the world. This is the teaching of Ho’oponopono and Carl Jung agreed saying:
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” Carl Gustav Jung
. A well-known self-love practice that I shared in the December Timings included looking into a mirror several times a day, looking deeply into your eyes and saying “I really love you” and saying your name. For example, I would say “I really love you, Cayelin Castell.” You might even try adding some additional really-s… “I really, really, really love you Cayelin Castell!” While doing this note how long you are able to gaze into your own eyes without having to look away or feeling uncomfortable? Note what feelings come up for you? Do you feel tears? If you do, let the tears come, because they are melting the barriers you have to self-love. Doing this practice is a way to begin to build trust in yourself and your ability to love who you really are.
It might enhance your experience to also say the Ho’oponopono statements to yourself while looking in the mirror: I love you. I am sorry. Please forgive. Thank you.
There are many actions that help facilitate authentic and transformative forgiveness. The first most essential ingredient is being willing to let go of whatever violation you may have experienced. Being willing doesn’t mean you automatically let go, it means you are willing to let go. Hanging onto the pain, the betrayal, the unfairness of whatever may have happened in the past keeps you at the effect of those events and separate from the healing power of love. Again, it helps to remember that by forgiving yourself and others it does not disregard your experience and it does not condone or deny what happened. It does recognize, however, that you are powerless to change the events that have already occurred and you are willing to empower yourself through forgiveness. You cannot unring the bell once it has been rung.
When we embrace forgiveness and heal our wounds the whole world around us changes. It is important to find the forgiveness process that works for you and engages all aspects of your being, the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual parts of yourself. This is the type of forgiveness that is deeply felt within your entire being when the feelings have been embraced and acknowledged. This is essential to a genuine forgiveness experience because denial or pretending it didn’t happen only gives greater power to the unacknowledged pain. Genuine forgiveness includes being willing to face and transform the pain and the unfairness as well as acknowledging and taking responsibility for your part as co-creator. See intro for links to different types of Forgiveness practices. http://www.crtraining.org/library/forgiveness/
The process of self-forgiveness though often difficult is necessary to experience genuine self-love.
Who do you need to forgive besides yourself? Is there anyone you are blaming for unfair and tragic events in your life? Are you angry, frustrated, sad, grieving or some other emotion that you haven’t given yourself permission to fully feel? Do you need to find a quiet safe place to express rage, hurt, frustration, or some other extreme emotion, for the purpose of releasing it?
Can you acknowledge your failure, or the failure of others, to live up to your expectations? Can you take responsibility for your experience, your feelings, your life, and the path of destiny that is yours to follow? Can you give back to those who have hurt you, responsibility for their own life and what they are co-creating without your judgment or expectations of what you think that should be like? Can you let go of the need to punish or get revenge?
As already stated letting go of expectations and the sense of revenge or justice brings a sense of peace and well-being. The energy of revenge and justice hold a space within our being. So once this is released that space is now empty and ready to be filled with love and joy by whatever imagery or practice works for you. This fits with the Ho’oponopono statements that start with I love you. The love is directed toward yourself and anyone or anything you are forgiving. It is as simple as asking love to fill it.
The Stauffer method of forgiveness suggests you face an empty chair and imagine the person or situation you are forgiving is seating there. It helps to call in your higher self, the guardian angels, beings of light, master teachers and guides that work with you to assist you in this process. Then state your willingness to forgive. Once the space is set for the forgiveness process it is time to express your feelings about the situation, yourself or any other person causing you pain. Be as specific as possible, stating what the events were, and what your experience was or is as honestly as possible.
Then express in detail how you would have preferred the situation to have taken place. Feel what you feel about the loss of this outcome and then release that expectation. Ceremonial release can be enacted through various means such as offering it to a ceremonial fire or water, sweeping it away with gestures, or any other actions that help disengage the energy and release it from your physical body. It is important to acknowledge your preference and release your expectation. Ken Keyes, creator of the Living Love method and author of The Handbook to Higher Consciousness refers to this process as up leveling your expectations or demands to preferences.
The idea is to consciously let go of all your demands and expectations around the situation or how the other person could have behaved differently. The fact is the deeds are done and nothing can change that, however, by releasing the expectations and demands your energy is freed. This doesn’t mean you have to be friends with a person who may still try to hurt you or isn’t willing to look at their part in the situation. What is important is you are now free of whatever feelings and thoughts that were binding you to the past. Now you are free to be responsible for your life experience. There is no one left to blame, not even yourself. There is nothing left to justify or condemn. This may result in feeling a great emptiness, so the last step is to fill your body with light and love. See the link for the Stauffer method in the intro.
This brings us to another great gift of self-forgiveness as it helps to remove any blocks we may have in our life force energy. Taking time to engage self-forgiveness frees the imprisoned life force energy, or Kundalini, ultimately inspiring the fulfillment of our true divine design once the energy blocks have been released. The power of self-forgiveness frees us to be empowered conscious co-creators of the Garden of Earthly Delight!
Transcendence through Self-Forgiveness
by Simeon Chiron Nartoomid
Self-forgiveness is the very foundation of our higher-dimensional Temple of Love. We can think of self-forgiveness as learning to accept ourselves fully just as we are right here and now.
Self-forgiveness is the only forgiveness there is really. God-Spirit-Source never holds anything against us. Anything we may hold against others is really about what we hold against ourselves as well. Once we learn how to access who we really are at will -- our true essence -- we can then operate in an awareness that allows us to see the conditioning that leads to the need for forgiveness in the long run. If we can actualize this state of awareness often enough, then we can step increasingly out of the need for forgiveness altogether...
...A key point to understand on this journey of self-forgiveness is that the perfection we seek is not to be found in being without limitations or flaws so much as it is... ( read entire article )