Forgiveness is a very powerful tool, It has the power to release you from the past.
Often when people are considering forgiveness they think about others and the need to forgive them. But really forgiveness begins with yourself. And in self forgiveness you then allow yourself to live a life with greater freedom, because you are releasing yourself from those events, those thoughts, those relationships that anchor you to the past and restrict you from fully expressing that which you truly are, a loving spirit.
In allowing to forgive yourself you are allowing yourself to also go beyond self judgement and self judgement can be a very crippling energy. It is worth remembering that if we are unwilling to forgive ourselves then whilst we may think we are forgiving others it will not be a full forgiveness.
So in order to forgive others we must first forgive ourselves. I’m not suggesting that you sit and ponder about all the events of the past, regrets that you may have, the people that may have upset you, things that have taken place that you have not been happy with, or decisions that you have made that did not sit well with you then and maybe still doesn't now. But rather when you feel a negative thought or a negative energy connected with something that you have done or experienced, then in those moments allow self forgiveness.
Allow yourself to be unshackled from the past and with that unshackling comes a great liberation. A liberation into a new you, into a lighter, brighter, more effervescent you. It will then allow you to let go of any hurts that others may have caused you. Because once you have allowed self forgiveness you can then more fully let go through forgiving others, in the realization that they were only doing what they knew to do at that time, with the understanding they had. In the same vein that you reacted or acted in the way that you did, given the understanding that YOU had at that time.
This is intertwined with the realities of living in the physical world. For as non-physical, as spirit, you would not allow yourself to hold on to those emotional energies because they are not part of your true being. It is through the physical existence that those more negative energies, those more destructive energies can play their part, but only if you allow it. Everything is about you allowing. Allowing yourself to let go. Allowing yourself complete forgiveness.
Funnily enough the realities are that there is really nothing to forgive. But the physical aspect of ourselves will often require that thought process to take place in order to allow us to move forward.
So if you continue to be bothered by things that have taken place in the past, some old thought patterns, some old destructive thought patterns, then realize that your power is in this moment. In this moment you can choose to forgive. Forgive yourself and to then forgive others.
I’ll leave you with these last thoughts. It is all a matter of allowing yourself to live a life with greater freedom and you do that by making your choices now, in this moment. What is past, is past. Now is a new beginning. So allow yourself to begin that new beginning and enter into it with that stronger sense of freedom through a greater connection to the loving self of your spirit.