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forgiving yourself,Nothing takes the place of it.
If I could only use one method of emotional healing, it would be the technique of self-forgiveness. No doubt about it. Why?
Because it's the greatest gift you can give yourself. It answers the tough question of -
"What's wrong with me?!"
With the correct answer -
"Nothing. I just need more love and more healing."
Let me share an embarrassing secret with you -
Once upon a time, I went to the bathroom to relieve myself of the morning's coffee - and nothing happened. I couldn't go.
I didn't realize it at the time, but part of a tumor in my bladder had broken loose and was blocking the flow.
Panic set in. I could just see myself being wheeled into the emergency room where my fate rested with some tired, overworked doctor with a sharp knife and a grouchy disposition.
I quickly chose my second option - take a walk and try to calm down and think this through. Soon I was jumping up and down, poking and hitting myself in the bladder - even standing on my head - as a way to get the flow going.
Lack of forgiving yourself is like a cancer.
It silently grows until one day you're faced with a situation that creates panic in your life.
Just like me and the bladder tumor - you find yourself doing all sorts of strange things, ...dancing around trying to reduce the pain that comes when you don't forgive yourself.
In my case, I eventually did end up in the operating room. Maybe your situation is not yet that extreme. Maybe you're living a happy life and you don't need to forgive yourself for anything.
Or maybe you know things could be better and your life could run smoother. Perhaps you're ready for a more fulfilling life - of more love and greater healing.
If it's your heart's desire, then forgiveness will get you there.
See, it's not what you might think. Forgiveness is not a heave and a sigh - as you reluctantly say what you don't mean to someone you don't like.
What Is forgiving yourself?
• Forgiveness is a gift - like receiving a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
• It releases you from your own claustrophobic prisons - the invisible ones you never see but are nontheless there.
• It's the upward path - the path less taken - the path to greater freedom.
forgiving yourself is always the wisest choice; and then it makes you wiser.
• Forgiveness frees up the clutter - the mental and emotional clutter that slows you down and causes so much frustration.
• Forgiveness fosters all growth and change.
• But most of all, forgiveness is a never-ending flow of energy you can tap into.
Forgiveness is essential for all healing.
Forgiveness is your inherent right as a human being. You have the right to forgive yourself and you can claim and demand that right anytime you wish.
It's inherent - meaning it can never be taken away. You always have the ability to fully and completely forgive yourself. (As long as you know how, that is.)
So why don't we?