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Today’s discourse is about forgiveness. This is a concept that we have all been told a lot about in general and especially in many religions, but can we the way to accomplish it?

Forgiveness is, simply put, about releasing any injustices done TO you, or BY you. This is actually a very straightforward concept, but typically really tough to attain. Whether to Forgive or not is your decision.

To hold back forgiveness is to choose to continue to be in pain. Keep in mind that, the option is continually yours.

The individual you refuse to forgive . . . OWNS you! You've got all of your energy invested in your own resentment, when you could possibly be utilizing it for yourself.

What about if your husband or wife sleeps with someone else? It is possible to still decide to to forgive. You'll also still be free to separate. Forgiving the person, doesn't suggest you've got to remain in an unhappy marriage. To repeat,it's, always your up to you.

“To err is human. To forgive, Divine.”

Why is it Divine?

It is divine simply because every time you forgive, you move 1 step closer to The Supreme Being.

Let's examine what the word itself is all about.

Forgive: for (in favor of) give (to relinquish, make a present of, donate.)

So forgiving, means that you're ‘in favor of relinquishing’.

When you are 'wronged', initially, you are feeling angry, betrayed, insulted, hurt, etcetera.

Next, you wish to quit feeling that way. You need to scream at the people who caused this, curse at them, leading them to feel the identical type of pain they induced in you.

In other words, Revenge.

This is often a regular response after you’ve been hurt in any way. As soon you have moved past the initial feeling, it is a possibility that you perhaps will just let it go, but if it's a a painful enough thing -- probably not.

You might be thinking, “Why do I need to forgive him/her?” “How can I ever forgive him/her/myself for what I did?”

When you hold a grudge, the pain just sits there -- like a radioactive rock -- destroying little by little every single element in your life that matters.

Keeping hold of a grudge is akin to drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

If you come to feel hurt by someone, don't forgive them for "their" sake. You need to forgive only for yourself. They do not HAVE TO ask in order to be forgiven; it is YOU who need to decide to forgive.

I will be teaching you some exercises that can help with releasing pain. First though, there are some things you need to learn about how it occurred in the first place.

By ‘it’, I am talking about the pain.

Concerning emotional pain, I've some very good news and I've got some bad news. As it happens, it all depends on your viewpoint. The thing is: You are totally accountable for that own hurt.

That can be both great news and lousy news. It’s bad news simply because you must acknowledge that you are responsible for the discomfort on some level, and the pain ONLY gets in if there is a point inside you that invited it in.

It’s a great bit of news because since you enabled the discomfort to get IN, then the pain is part of you – IT'S YOURS - and… you are only capable of changing things which are a part of you.

It is not possible for to make other people change – you can only permanently change yourself. So if it’s part of you – OWN IT!

The hurt can get in simply because there exists, for lack of a better word, a ‘button’ that will get pushed. It’s like being on an elevator. The elevator has a zillion floors with buttons for all of them. If the button gets pushed, it lets you right onto that floor. Basically, the same is true with discomfort; when another person recognizes, on some level, that the button exists, it’s effortless to find it, activate it, and just allow themselves in.

The pain wouldn’t get in if there were no button to push. The insult, the hurt, and so forth would blow by like a warm breeze on a spring day, if it had nothing to stick to.

This can be also correct when you've done anything you can't forgive yourself for. You might have a different button within you that tells you that you are a bad person or that you aren't deserving enough and that you deserve all the negative things that come your way.

Buttons like these are what will allow you to dislike yourself.

It really is doable for EVERYTHING to be forgiven!

Be aware, that God adores you. You were created in perfection, by perfection, for perfection. Your success is guaranteed.

Now that we know how the hurt was allowed in, let's next talk about the best way to get rid of it.

No one gains from forgiveness more so than the person who does the forgiving!

Whenever you take into consideration forgiving, there are a handful of issues to keep in mind which may aid you. The initial thing is the one we previously discussed:

The pain is ONLY there because you allowed it in.

The second point to remember is:

People are typically not AGAINST you, but merely FOR themselves. i.e. it’s usually NOT about you.

The 3rd is probably the most significant in terms of intellectually letting go of issues:

Individuals react, behave, do things, as a consequence of their personal hurt.

This final one is often really helpful to recall when some thing happens to you or when you do anything to bring about someone else's pain. Everyone has discomfort. Most individuals aren’t aware of it and those which might be usually don’t know what to doto get rid of it.

It’s not about you.

Even when it feels totally personal, they let you know it’s about you, and it’s ONLY happening to you, it’s still almost certainly not.

It could possibly be the truth that you pushed THEIR buttons, but you did so out of own pain. Your job then becomes to discharging your own personal discomfort so you don’t experience it and so you won’t pass it on.

AND if they let go of their stuff, there’s absolutely nothing which will light 'em up.

You do nevertheless have accountability for your actions, as others do for theirs. You also must offer a sincere apology if you’ve injured another person, but that’s not what we’re discussing here.

For more about forgiveness, look for part 2.