Pillar 5 • Compassion: Forgiveness
The objective of this mini-course is to explore and understand the consequences and the process of forgiveness. The expected results are freedom from guilt, sadness, or anger as well as improved well-being, a freeing of creative energy.
Beyond telling you that you should forgive, did anyone ever teach you how to forgive? Recovering the technology of forgiveness begins with the realization that forgiveness is a series of steps that you take to restore your own peace of mind. It is self-healing.
“The only thing you can change about the past is how much you let it affect you.”- Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar® Materials
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Excerpt
The Technology of Forgiveness
Beyond telling you that you should forgive, did anyone ever teach you how to forgive?
Recovering the technology of forgiveness begins with the realization that forgiveness is a series of steps that you take to restore your own peace of mind. It is self-healing. Whether or not it affects the other guy is up to him. Announcing to someone that you forgive him or her is a choreographed display of righteousness, and is not what forgiveness technology is about.
Not forgiving has consequences; it leads to victim consciousness and prolonged suffering; it is the root of future wrongdoing. If you were to sit abusers down and explore what is generating their motivation to do harm to others, you would find many grudges, old insults, betrayals, and injustices—all unforgiven—that they feel have given them the right to harm anyone they choose.
Forgiveness breaks the abused-right-to-abuse chain. Breaking this chain is not only a kindness you do for yourself; it is a favor you do for generations to come.