Forgiveness, Energy and Inner Peace
“Carrying a grudge is like carrying a red-hot rock or giving the person who hurt you a lifetime of free rent in your mind. Why would you want to do that? In some families, grievances and resentment are held for years, even decades. We forgive people who we imagine have harmed us because, for our own mental health, we want to lay down the burden of the past rather than carry it into the present.
“…. It appears that forgiveness is an essential step on the road to peace. It is not forgetting, but forgiving and letting go that heals all separations.
Russell Targ, Limitless Mind
Another thought along the same lines is: carrying anger, rage and hostility toward another is like drinking poison and hoping the other will die!
Often people seem to think that forgiveness is condoning hurtful behavior by others but it is not—it is really about freeing ourselves from carrying around burdens that weigh us down.
Another misperception is that we can think our way to forgiveness. That is a first step—to intellectually understand it, but we must engage our emotional energy as well. Why? Because that is the place where all our ‘meaningful” life experience is stored. By engaging the emotions we can access the actual energies that are blocked or distorted, release them, straighten them out and open up more space for freedom, inner peace and joy to flow.
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