This is part 2 of a 3 part series. You can read Part 1 – Spiritual information before you read this, Part 2. In yesterday’s Spiritual Espresso, I was talking about getting tricked by the ego, while I was trying to live a spiritual life studying other people’s work.
I was putting so much energy, time and money into spirituality, but I wasn’t feeling like my life was changing the way I thought it should, or believed it could. I recognized that the ‘should’ and the ‘could’ words were judgments, but that’s how I felt back then. My thoughts were jumping from one judgment to another.
I believed that, if I read all these spiritual books by all these wonderful, celebrated spiritual authors that everybody loves, and if I went to all these lectures and these talks and took these workshops and did all these spiritual things, that I’d have so much spiritual information, I’d be healed, and my life would be terrific. I believed, or maybe I just hoped, everything I desired would come to me, because I had all this spiritual, healing information. I guess I thought it would happen in a magical way.
Well, I am here to say that it doesn’twork. It’s a trick of the ego.
There’s one thing I’ve learned that actually does heal our mind and allow us to live from our heart. And when we’re living from our heart, it’s as though we get the time back that we thought we’d wasted.
There’s a wonderful teaching from the Bible, that when we’re born of the Spirit, when we come back into our heart and we’re reborn in the Spirit, then all the years that the locusts have eaten are given back to us. All the time we think we wasted, it’s given back to us.
How is it given back to us?
By virtue of moving into our heart, having self-compassion, loving ourselves, forgiving ourselves and everyone else, forgiving the debts and the debtors, the trespassers and the trespasses, then we can live in the moment. The blocks to Love dissolve. We can finally live the Love.
When we start to genuinely live the Love that we are, all that we’d blocked, all the learning that we’d blocked, all the insights, we can now harvest them. So, it really is like all the time we wasted is given back to us. The learning comes pouring into our awareness and gratitude fills our heart because we realize now that none of it was a waste.
Every time when it seemed like we weren’t learning ANYTHING we were, in fact, learning something quite valuable – each and every time. And sometimes there’s so much gratitude for being able to finally harvest he learning from the past, that we can only weep tears of thanksgiving.
When we truly forgive, which means to release the attachment we have, the belief we have about the meaning we made of things in the past, then we no longer have to repeat the lesson.
It’s not difficult to understand. As long as we feel justified and correct in our opinions about what occurred in the past then we cannot begin to know what things are really for. As long as we’re completely attached to the meaning we’ve made of things in the past, then we’re doomed to repeat them. But as soon as we let those beliefs dissolve – we can truly see. We can begin to understand what things are for – and then we can harvest the learning form our experiences. When that starts happening we no longer need to repeat the same painful kinds of experiences.
What a relief it is!
That’s how I stopped repeating the same painful lessons – through self-forgiveness.
Forgiving myself for holding onto the pain of the past was one of the best things I ever did in my entire life. And it’s why I’ve been helping people to do that forgiveness work for more than two decades. I know how miraculous it is.
Doing this work together, and remembering to laugh is the foundation of my year-long Masterful Living Program. We clear out so much old pain, that we feel brand new! Doing it together is liberation!
More in Part 3 tomorrow!
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Information isn’t healing.
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