Give yourself a gift today! Give yourself the gift of forgiving yourself and others. Yes, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself; not the other person.
Many believe that if you forgive a person it means that you have "let them off the hook" or that you have approved or accepted their poor behavior. That is not true! You don't have to approve or accept another person's behavior in order to forgive. You just have to decide that you are no longer going to be affected by their behavior because it had nothing to do with you and everything to do with them. They behaved in such a way because they didn't know any better at the time. In this way you are allowing yourself to move beyond the anger, resentment, hurt feelings that you felt because of that behavior.
Forgiving yourself is the ultimate gift. We are all here to learn from our experiences. We don't learn unless we make mistakes. Those mistakes allow our soul to evolve. So, making mistakes and learning from those mistakes is necessary for our soul to move further along on the path. Forgiving oneself takes one from the state of living in the past to living in the present, where we can allow ourselves to live our purpose.
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