Weekly Glow Wisdom: Forgiveness - The Spiritual F-Word (Part Two)

(An Excerpt from my Bestselling Spiritual Book I AM GOOD ENOUGH)

Spirit Junkie author Gabby Bernstein is also a big fan of Dr. Dyer, and she encourages us to make Forgiveness one of our primary tools (the other being laughter). She invites us to pray each day, asking Spirit to help us release any ego thoughts that are blocking our path, making Forgiveness our “auto reset button.”

Forgiveness applies to handling fear as well. We can choose to witness our fears. We can then choose to Forgive them and let them go, a process that can take mere seconds in some cases, although a wee bit longer in others.

Our inability to Forgive is one of the major blocks, if not the major block, we must release on our way to wholeness.

A Course in Miracles tells us:

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Not being able to Forgive is the largest barrier of them all, for me and many others. Perhaps it is for you, too.

If we attack others, instead of letting whatever it is go, we’re reinforcing our fears. This is when we most need to invite-in Spirit to help us remove the blocks that prevent Forgiveness from occurring.

Forgiveness is full of light, and thus it weakens the darkness of fear, revenge, guilt and shame.

The great thing about Forgiveness is that you don’t have to do anything other than open to it. It’s enough to simply say, “I forgive you,” and then let Spirit or God take it from there and work out all of the details.

We don’t need to force reconciliations or decide any of the details of those events, not the how’s, when or where’s. Forgiveness is a spiritually-aligned action instead of one forced into being by our egos.

Forgiveness is about learning to access our inner states of peace, joy and happiness. It’s choosing the love and light that Forgiveness brings instead of choosing to remain in the darkness of fear-based living, a darkness that includes anger, revenge, guilt and shame.

“I’m angry but I’m willing not to be. Dear God, please show me what it is I’m not seeing,” says A Course in Miracles.

Marianne Williamson reminds us that there has never been a storm that hasn’t passed so that if we relinquish the clouds to the Holy Spirit, we’re on our way to Forgiveness.

Now that doesn’t mean we don’t let out our anger and fear. Spiritual living isn’t quiet and bliss twenty-four-seven.

We create what we defend against, per A Course in Miracles, because our defenses reflect our wounds. It’s okay and healing to see our errors and the errors of those around us, but at that point, once we’ve seen the errors, we can ask God to take them from us. Our egos aren’t equipped to defend against anything but love, they thrive on our fears and on every single thing that we can’t Forgive.

Marianne uses a wonderful mantra that I’ve put into daily practice in my life. It goes like this:

“I forgive you (name here), and I release you to the Holy Spirit.”

Try it. I think you’ll find it as helpful as I have.

There's something so powerful in just being able to say, “I forgive you,” even if you’re not sure that you really do, and then letting Spirit do the rest.

Hugs Love and Namaste --- DD

P.S. Tomorrow, in Forgiveness (Part Three), I'll give you a personal example of how I've put these tools to work in my life. And...the results have been fantastic!!!