Why is it so important to forgive?

When you forgive someone or yourself you give yourself a tremendous great gift.

Why and how?

Your body always gives signals when there is a disbalance.
Your body attempts to get your attention that there is something in your life you need to take a look at.
Your body starts with milde signals. When you don’t pay any attention, the signals grow stronger and stronger. Sometimes, when a situation lasts for years and years – your body will deliver drastic measures to get your attention.

Deep, unresolved and suppressed anger can have a devastating affect on your health.

The first thing is to identify and understand what you are angry about.

You experience and learn from everything you went through in your life. Holding on to anger is not a lesson you want or need to learn in life; holding on to anger is giving all your power away and stubbornly letting someone else control your life, control your emotions and… over a period of time; even control your health. Do you want someone else to have so much power over you?

‘Deep, unresolved and suppressed anger can have a devastating affect on your health’

Yes, other people can and will do things to you that make you furious. You can not avoid this, this is part of life. But you can choose to NOT let the anger and hurt control your life.
Some people say about forgiveness: ‘If I forgive him or her – he or she has won.’ But it is NOT about winning or losing. It’s about learning and experiencing and letting go and then moving on.

How do you do this? How do you forgive?

First you must feel ready to forgive. You must mean what you say for it to have any effect. If you feel you are truly ready to forgive you can say the following statements:

“I forgive all those who have hurt me in this life, in any life, in any way at all:
“I ask for forgiveness of all those I have hurt in this life, in any life, in any way at all:
“I forgive myself for the part I played and my transgressions in this life, in any life, in any way at all…”