Forgiveness. What is forgiveness? A religious duty? A moral obligation? A condonation of a hurtful act? Forgiveness is a gift. A gift to yourself. Give yourself the gift of forgiveness. Leave the burdens behind. Once you start doing it as a daily practice you will know the great joy you will experience as a result of living a life without judgment or blame. I am referring here to ALL the judgments that you might have; yes all of them, against others and against yourself. This practice doesn’t mean leave someone or yourself ”off the hook” from whatever they did “wrong” or you did “wrong”. This means learning the lessons, and liberating yourself from the burden of guilt, shame, hatred. This process will help freeing your energy to create new delights in your life.
If everyone on the planet were to practice forgiveness as a daily discipline, life on Earth would be positively transformed. Daily forgiveness and daily gratitude are the key pillars to a better, and healthier you. As a side effect of this practice you will experience waves of joy permeating your life and the life of those around you. Try it; you don’t have anything to lose and a lot to gain.
To start this practice and make it part of your daily rut you need to start creating positive affirmations regarding forgiveness and gratitude. Start with something very general. For example: “I forgive myself for my unconscious behaviors of the past. I release myself from the guilt and shame that those behaviors have caused me”. “I am grateful for the lessons I have learned through the challenges I have been through”.
Repeat those affirmations a minimum of 3 times each day for at least 3 weeks.
Once you have done that, experience your feelings regarding the situation. If you don’t feel changes, keep doing the same positive affirmations; if you feel “lighter” in that area of your life, start with new affirmations.
Trust me this is the first step of feeling better and joyful.
Forgiveness is simple but sometimes not easy. We do have a choice. We can live carrying the burden of hatred, sadness, resentment or we can free ourselves from that. What do you choose?
Clara Naum, M.A. Spiritual Psychologist
www.claranaum.com
Clara teaches classes, workshops and private sessions on Healing through Forgiveness, and Forgiveness as a path to Freedom

By Kat Zaghi     

The topic that came to me to discuss for this Newsletter is about ‘just being.’ Most of the time we get caught up with doing, doing, doing that we tend to lose ourselves in the process. Sometimes part of what we are ‘doing’ is trying to force something to happen by means of controlling an outcome in fear that it will not turn out the way we think or expect it should. There can be a lot of effort in this because it is almost like trying to swim against a huge wave; it is going against the natural current flow of the Universe. In this process we stress, get frustrated, worried, feel stuck, beat ourselves up and drown in our expectations of ourselves and the expectations others have for us. Sometimes what we think and what others think is best for us does not even come close to the larger scale of what we can actually have and receive because we did not expand our imaginations far enough or even believe in ourselves even more to think we can get better. We can liberate ourselves now and be open to all the abundance ready to come in, and trust that everything is always working towards our higher good, even if we just can’t see it yet.

If we practice being in the moment and accept what is, instead of trying to make what already is to fit a preconceived idea of what we think it should be, then we can be free of judging ourselves and our journey. Take a moment, maybe now, and just breathe. Feel how it is to just be still. Be with your breathe for a moment. Notice how your body feels. When we can relax into the same moment as the flow of our breath and accept who we are now, we can allow the best to flow and ‘just be’ because we have eliminated a great portion of ‘just doing’ or trying to force something to happen. When we can find ease in just being we can find true inner peace and freedom to express who we really are. Read the rest of this entry »

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