To Forgive: Release & Let Go!
Breaking the Ties that Bind!
Forgiveness!
Friday, 23 March 2012
“Forgiveness ~ Breaking the Ties That Bind! I couldn't help witness as I felt compelled to FORGIVE in my morning meditation. I had flashbacks to when I lost my job 4 years ago, which I felt were necessary to release. I envisioned each person who appeared to have played a key role. I thanked them for serving me a particular lesson in my life, forgave them, and sent them love and light for their own journeys in this life. I also made a point to remember to forgive myself for any harsh feelings I may have harbored and held onto from that period in my life. See, in order to move forward in life, you have to release the past ~ YOU have to RELEASE YOURSELF from it! It means confronting it, accepting it, making peace with it, thanking it for its contribution[s] to your life's path, and releasing it!”
~Lana A. LaBonte
It didn't take me long to realize Forgiveness was the theme of my meditation. I saw myself gently peeling away at those layers. Gradually, I began to see images of colleagues from 4 years prior. *See previous entry
Little did I know, I had apparently still held onto those previous hurts. I knew I had to release what was still clinging to me under the surface; despite feeling I had moved past this. It was apparent this was the appropriate time and it was befitting since I was back in the same location where I was back then.
As the images of these colleagues entered my mind, I went through a ritual of forgiveness with each one I felt had played a key role in the events leading up to my unemployment. I could tell I was ready because I didn’t feel attachment to a single negative emotion for any of them. I simply forgave them, thanked them for being in my life, and teaching me their lesson. I imagined them happy while I sent them love and light for their own life’s journey.
It simply would not serve me to hold onto the memory of what I had felt back then. It would be like the ties that bind shackling me to a past, which no longer existed for me.
More importantly, I needed to forgive myself from the emotional attachment I had had to those memories of pain and hurt. I consciously forgave myself for the hurt I had felt back then, which had still lingered on with me all this time. I recognized how our memories change over time in such a way we see things as occurring differently after we’ve acquired more information.
The memory of the pain from 4 years ago was based on a story of my past. I recognize it now because I confronted it over 3 years ago. My story was related to how I felt people were doing things deliberately TO ME; instead of realizing how my physiology, the state of my being, was actually creating and attracting these events.
Think about how Murphy’s Law is often blamed for things happening out of your control and contrary to how you want them to unfold. Ironically, somewhere in the back of your subconscious, instead of focusing on the desired outcome, you’re more consumed by what you don’t want to happen.
Funny, right!
Well, trust me, when you identify a pattern in your life and trace it out, along with the way you were feeling at those different times, you’ll also see the correlating underlying fear existed all along. The more you continue to hold onto this fear, the more your life patterns are reinforced, self-perpetuated.
It takes time and patience to confront your stories and your fears but it’s well worth the effort. It’s a lesson in discipline!
By forgiving myself, this burden of emotional weight lifted up off of me and it felt like I had a lighter body!
I had made the intention to make this a fantastic day and I did! The phone had rung from an old colleague who wanted to know if I would like to be considered for a position in June or July. It’s amazing how quickly forgiving and letting go of the past opens your life to new opportunities and the flow of abundance. See, things do look up when you Forgive ~ Release & Let Go!
Now, imagine what would happen if you sat down and forgave all those people in your life you insisted weren’t worthy of it! Truly, the only one you’re hurting is YourSelf!
Forgiveness isn’t about the other person ~ it’s about YOU!
It doesn’t mean you Forget. It just means you’re willing to move on with the more important NOW in Your Life!
Here’s a great quote from Ann Landers, aka Esther Lederer:
“Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.”
I leave you this evening wishing you pleasant dreams. May you live your days filled with an abundance of enthusiasm for the unknown, seeing every encounter and event as an opportunity to grow into a more illuminating YOU!
"Sometimes the hardest thing is to LET GO! We tend to hold on to painful experiences allowing them to hold us back from BEing who we truly ARE while allowing those experiences to define us. Don't allow yourSelf to be stuck in a self-inflicted pattern, which isn't serving your Highest Good! We all deserve to shine our Light & Love upon the world so LET GO of the past & LET IN the flow of abundance. Forgive yourSelf & release the cords of attachment so you can blossom into the Beautiful Person YOU ARE!"
~Lana A LaBonte
Loving Blessings,
~*♥*~ Lana ~*♥*~