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am always so grateful for the opportunity to share my views on understanding
forgiveness and its importance. Many great religions and spiritual masters
have emphasized the importance of demonstrating forgiveness and returning
to love.
It is my experience that to know peace, love and health, you
must first create emotional freedom through forgiveness.
©
Pat Ware
While I choose
to not tell you a personal story of my great personal wounds, suffice
it to say that I know the rock bottom dark nights of the soul. Trust me,
I've learned this the hard way, so please pay attention! Who am I? I am
a visionary peacemaker who believes that when we practice forgiveness
in any area of our lives, we move from divisiveness and war (with others
and within ourselves) to reconciliation, resolution, compassion, trust,
harmony and peace.
Healing miracles have a rich
history within all cultures and are happening all the time, night and
day, all around the world, within the hearts of average peoples, whether
we are aware of them or not! I'm into passionately honoring what we do
want to create within ourselves and within our world.
As a certified clinical hypnotherapist,
my clients often come to me with very clear descriptions, perceptions
and feelings of what they don't want! They are very clear about the destructive
feelings and thoughts that rule their life! This seems to be all they
can see. They are strongly enmeshed in the negative and often volatile
aspects of their personality and their personal and global reality! The
challenge then becomes one of gaining clarity about what one does want
and why one wants it.
We explore the positive aspects
of healing the mind, body and emotions because the old mental and emotional
patterns that I see causing disease the most often are: anger, criticism,
resentment, shame, guilt and fear of failure. This presents an opportunity
to realize that the rational mind can only take us so far or else most
intelligent people would have it figured out by now! It's easy for the
rational, analytical mind to see the wake of destruction and want to find
an answer to move forward and create a higher quality of life! But how?
I find that the deepest healing
(on all levels, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual), involves going
within, honoring our perceptions of what we would prefer having instead,
and creating it in our hearts and imagination within the richness of our
inner world. We learn to focus on what we do want at the deepest levels
of our awareness.
Why do most people avoid
forgiveness?
First, most people are not
usually taught how to forgive. I find that many forgiveness experts agree
that we would forgive more if we only knew how and that to experience
the true benefits of forgiveness involves doing the inner work necessary
to release on all levels, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and planetary
or universal.
Second, I believe that we avoid
Forgiveness because we somehow got the mistaken idea that forgiveness
means we condone or agree with the actions of others! This simply isn't
true! My inner processes lend you the opportunity to become clear about
what you would have preferred, so you can clearly see how your values
and ethics differ from the choices of others or your choices from your
past.
My stance is that to forgive
involves your willingness to hold certain attitudes for your health and
well-being. It is a life enhancing process which allows you to release
fear, doubt, anger, guilt, selfishness, resentment or disharmony and truly
move forward to create peace within yourself and your world. Forgiveness
requires a commitment to take responsibility for your choices and allow
others to take responsibility for theirs. Some start with forgiving others
before they are ready to dive deeper into their own guilt and mistakes.
Some choose to start with forgiving their self first to gain a deeper
level of compassion before they are ready to release the insane hold that
perpetrators or abusers have over their lives.
What about our children?
I believe that it is vitally
important to teach our children a realistic view of the need to forgive
and to model the process openly. So often parents minimize the problem
(Johnny didn't really mean to hurt you, or oh stop crying, you're ok)
which creates lies and lack of understanding, therefore the forgiveness
process is not reached, understood nor embraced. Again I believe that
openly modeling this vital process is the most important aspect, as preaching
what we don't practice has never seemed to worked! Just like with kindness,
love or any other higher principles, we must practice what we preach to
have an impact!
So how do I think we can teach
our children how to let go of negativity and creatively move forward into
health and well-being? By embracing and healing our own emotional baggage
first. By doing this important inner work to challenge and change our
perceptions and learn through experience these simple steps to keep our
own energy clear, thereby teaching by example within our families and
our world. As parents and educators we must model doing unto others and
we would have others do unto us, because we all make mistakes as a natural
part of the learning process!
Are you ready to accept that
we have a global responsibility to create more healing, peace and freedom
within our world? You may wish to ask yourself, "Is what I am currently
creating in my life, what I want to take with me into eternity?" Think
about it! What kind of emotional energy and karma do you want to take
with you? How long would you allow old destructive tendencies to haunt
you, knowing that there is an ancient, proven way to emotional freedom?
Forgiveness usually includes
these three inner processes:
Self forgiveness (to release
guilt and shame and become more self-compassionate.) YAHOO! Forgiveness
of others (to clear and strengthen relationships) YAHOO! Forgiveness of
a group, organization or Nation (to create more local, historical and
planetary peace) YAHOO!
To gain insight about forgiveness
in your life, I encourage you to ask yourself these questions and write
down your responses:
How many healing miracles of forgiveness do I know about?
How many healing
miracles have I been a part of?
How aware am I
of the fact that healing miracles of forgiveness are a
very viable part
of history?
What feelings
or experiences am I holding against myself that I would
benefit from releasing
and forgiving?
Who are the people
in my life that I feel have mistreated me, that I
would benefit from releasing
and forgiving?
Am I willing to
move forward for my own health and well-being as well
as effect the bigger
picture of love in my life and the lives of others?
What groups in
my life have treated me or others unfairly, that I would
benefit from
releasing and forgiving? Governmental Agencies?
Judicial Systems? Some
Militant Military? Corporate Exploiters? A
specific Race, Culture or Nation?
A specific Religious group? A
business group?
Am I willing to actually do the inner work, gain clarity and allow myself
to release on all levels and return to love, peace and health?
Have I considered
what my life might look like if I don't evolve my
mental and emotional
baggage?
Am I still blaming
God or outside influences completely for my misery
as the ultimate victim
who refuses to work on my attitudes?
Am I willing to
learn more about being a better part of the solutions?
In conclusion, I can only say
that the old saying "we teach best that which we have to learn", certainly
applied to me! After 5 years of hell with some healing, I was ready to
take the perfect leap, to attempt to regain the qualities of my life and
myself that were totally gone! I can honestly say that after first researching
and creating the outline for forgiving another person, I walked myself
through it in my imagination with the biggest destroyer of my quality
of life (the insane jerk), and was amazed that he called me the next day
to talk about nothing special after not speaking civilly to me for probably
9 years!
I discovered that envy, greed
and insanity can ride a mean horse, so I thank God forgiveness truly works!
Yes, miracles of forgiveness abound in the world each and every moment.
I strongly encourage you to claim yours and enhance your emotional freedom,
health and quality of life! Go ahead, you will love yourself for it! I
feel very grateful to offer you the results of the tattered edges of my
experience and my healing wisdom in creating and offering these forgiveness
tapes. I'm into honoring what we do want to create within ourselves and
within our world.
What if Self-Compassion is the primary energy shifting consciousness and
healing today? 
 Iris K Barratt
Iris is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, a
professional intuitive investigator and palmistry expert. She is also a
minister, a teacher of spiritual principles, a highly respected peace
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human potential ,investigation techniques, peacemaking, practical
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