Forgiveness ... It Is NOT What You Think It Is!

WHY IS FORGIVENESS SO IMPORTANT? I really want you to understand how important true forgiveness is to a happy life. In fact, it’s mandatory. But I can hear you saying, “Mandatory!? That means I have to do it! Why do I have to do it?! I don’t have to forgive if I don’t want to, and that person doesn’t deserve my forgiveness!” Right on both counts. You don’t have to forgive if you don’t want to, and the other person might not deserve your forgiveness. But if you really want to feel good more of the time and remove the interferences from the flow of good in your life, you must learn about and apply the Forgiveness Process with sincerity and clear intention. You are doing it for you, not them. And as I’ve already mentioned, you don’t have to be concerned about payback. Everyone gets back what they give out according to Universal Law. Keep in mind this includes you, as a result of your own festering and toxic emotional attachments! Genuine forgiveness is vital because it can free you from unrelenting obstructions to living at higher levels of happiness and well-being. It can free you to enjoy unlimited success and abundance. It can free you from that which might interfere with the health and well-being of your body, mind and spirit. And last but not least, it can free you to experience the depth and quality of all other relationships in your life. Remember: Emotional attachments suck your vital energy. Think about how many of these emotional umbilical cords you may have attached to people or to negative memories over the course of your lifetime. If you have not emotionally disconnected from them, disempowered them or dissolved them, they are still sucking your energy and eventually you will pay with the deterioration of your physical body. This is a big component of aging and disease. By the time most people are fifty years old, many big, fat negative emotional umbilical cords have been sucking their vital energy for so many years that the cells of their bodies have gradually become deficient, deformed, distorted and dead. That’s why people look old, not just because they’ve reached a certain number of years. I’d like to emphasize how important your emotional state is in creating your experience of life. Emotions are even more impactful than thoughts, perhaps because they are so involved with ingrained beliefs. Humans come into the world with a built-in life urge and a death urge, and from that point on it’s a balancing act. When you sink into the denser, thicker emotions there is less movement of the Life Force, or Energy, and the result is a body and mind that functions with less and less health and vitality. This means that your entire history of thought, feeling and belief becomes your consciousness and thereby manifests in your physical form. There’s a terrific book entitled Molecules of Emotion, written by Dr. Candice Pert, an internationally recognized pharmacologist. In this book she explains how the emotions act like drugs in the brain and the body, and actually store memories in the cells of the body. She asserts that emotions are chemical ligands, or peptides, which distribute themselves in the body very specifically. This chemical interaction at the cellular level can translate into large changes in behavior, physical activity, and mood, all the result of emotional energy. In Dr. Pert’s words, “The body is the unconscious mind!” She goes on to say, “Repressed traumas caused by overwhelming emotion can be stored in a body part, thereafter affecting our ability to feel that part or even move it.” Now rather than try to understand all this, it’s enough to say there is scientific evidence behind the fact that emotions are key to the health of our body. Emotions are generated by thoughts, and thoughts are generated by emotions. It seems to be a two-way street. But it’s feelings and emotions that carry messages to the individual cells of the body. Because of the time it takes for the negative emotional debris stored in the cells of the body to manifest as illness or deformity or weakness, most people do not make the connection between past events and present challenges. For those who think they have nothing to forgive and yet experience health issues, emotions they don’t understand, difficulty in pursuing their dreams and goals in life, low self-esteem, and so on, I have included in the book an amazing process called The Soul-Math™ Formula. This unique exercise will help you dig into your history of thoughts, feelings, beliefs and behavior to reveal and discover old buried “mind viruses.” Mind viruses are toxic emotions you may not realize are registered in the cells of your body and are keeping you from moving forward with ease rather than struggle. Although you may not identify with these old buried emotions at this point in your life, they may be playing a very significant role in the choices and decisions you are making or not making. Even unresolved feelings from childhood can still be very active in holding you back, slowly breaking down parts of your body, and getting in the way of your ability to clearly connect with that “still small voice within,” or your intuitive inner guidance system. At this point I think it’s important to lay the groundwork for launching into the Forgiveness Process by validating it with my own personal story. Although it’s impossible to fully convey the mental and emotional impact of this experience, I hope that my telling it will help you see that it’s possible to detach from and transform even the most devastating or challenging occurrence into a blessing in disguise.