People Often Underestimate The Power of Forgiveness
Most people completely misunderstand how forgiveness works and the full power it offers us.
The entire process of awakening (or coming to a deeply peaceful state) really boils down to forgiveness.
Forgiving every untrue thought or perception you’ve concluded about yourself or another.
When we’ve done that we know the peace that passes all understanding.
Simple, right?!
Technically, yes.
But hardly any of us are able to do this to the extent that leads to knowing our deeper nature…the peace that passes all understanding.
Forgiveness is the bridge back to truth.
If we’re in a scenario that requires forgiveness we’re misaligned with truth to the degree that forgiveness is required.
And we’re in total control of whether or not we use forgiveness as a bridge back to truth.
We suffer when we don’t and we feel peace when we do.
Yet this choice is never at the top of the list for us to choose.
We’d rather blame something outside of us whether it’s a person, circumstance or situation than empower ourselves to feel peace.
We’d rather believe the painful story that creates suffering for us than utilize the one tool that can offer us relief.
We’d rather believe whatever we’ve concluded about the person, circumstance or situation has full power over how we feel about ourselves or life in general than seek that which could offer us true relief…and true inner power.
Why?
Because we don’t understand how forgiveness serves us.
We don’t understand where it’s leading us.
Instead, we think it’s about letting the person, circumstance or situation off the hook for what they’ve done.
We think it’s condoning hurt.
We think it’s unfair and unjust to let the person, circumstance or situation off the hook
All because we don’t understand what it offers us. We only see what it offers “the other”…and from that limited view, it feels like it’s taking something from us to give to another.
Forgiveness can’t be understood from such a limited perspective.
It requires a more expanded perspective to understand it’s full power…because expansion is what it’s offering us.
Forgiveness is shifting us from a very limited three-dimensional, bodily perspective to a much more encompassing soul perspective.
Peace lives in the soul and when you know it in the soul, you can feel it in the body.
You can’t feel it in the limited three-dimensional body without first knowing it in the soul. This is key because most try to feel it in the body without bringing the soulful perspective in. That doesn’t work.
In this more expanded, soulful view, you recognize that nothing can truly harm you.
It’s the idea that something can emotionally or spiritually be taken from you that limits our understanding of the power of forgiveness.
This is an extremely disempowered view. One that forgiveness sheds light on.
So when it comes to forgiving someone for emotionally hurting you, you’re actually forgiving yourself for giving them the power to hurt you by believing in their abuse.
If you physically lose something (belongings, money, etc.), you’re forgiving yourself for giving the experience of loss power over how you know yourself. You’re forgiving yourself for believing status, security, etc. told you who you are inwardly.
And if, God forbid, you were physically harmed and/or underwent a trauma of some sort, you are still forgiving yourself for the idea that this experience could change who you fundamentally are on a soul level.
You are forgiving yourself for any ideas you picked up around unworthiness, feeling less than in some way, feeling unfairly treated and using that to define limits about yourself, feeling not deserving of good things, etc.
You are forgiving yourself for not knowing your own inner power, abundance, love, wisdom, joy, and peace.
And when you see that you’re simply forgiving yourself for ideas you picked up from a very limited perspective of yourself, the other people, circumstances and situations become obsolete in this process of forgiveness.
This is the depth of self-discovery and self-knowledge forgiveness offers.
Most aren’t ready for this. It’s too much self-responsibility.
That’s okay, just consider that this is where forgiveness has the potential to lead you and as you’re ready to take on more responsibility for knowing the truth of what you are, consider the role forgiveness plays.
You are powerful beyond your wildest knowing. It simply take a willingness and readiness to know this power.
Until then, take your most relevant next step, like
Letting people off the hook for whatever beliefs/judgments you may have picked up from them that are contributing your current disharmony.
They were/are acting from wherever they were/are in their soul growth.
Don’t let it stop the trajectory of what’s possible for you to know in your own soul growth.
Remove yourself from toxic situations. This is an act of self-care. Heal what led you to the relationship and once that’s healed, you’ll vibrationally attract people at a new, more healed frequency.
Heal your own self-doubt and disbelief about what’s possible for you. Again, once you’ve healed these things, you’ll vibrationally attract situations and opportunities at the new, more healed frequency.
Keep doing this over and over again for whatever pops up in the form of disharmony.In six months, you’ll look back and hardly recognize who you were.
If you would like help understanding how to apply perspectives of forgiveness to your own journey and process, I offer one-on-one coaching sessions to aid with this. Reply directly to this email for more info.
To our individual and collective healing.
Shanna
P.S. So many of our habits changed during the pandemic. If listening to podcasts fell to the wayside, now may be the perfect time to catch up on any missed episodes from Season 2 of Always Shine Brightly! Here’s a quick list of our Season 2 line up for easy reference:
Episode 6: Profoundly Free w/ Ricardo Flores-Clar
Episode 5: From Burned Out to Self-Sustained w/ Anna Earth
Episode 4: Friendship, Fiddle Playing & Moving Through The Unexpected w/ Crystal Harris
Episode 3: From Homeless to Healer w/ Hemma Haridin
Episode 2: Let Your Passion Be Bigger Than Your Fears w/ Meagan Smith
Episode 1: Balancing Love & Wisdom w/ Jessicka Herman
Click any of the above links or search “Always Shine Brightly” in any podcast app.
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