First, I’d just like to share an amazing thing that happened. About five weeks ago I lost the case for my AirPods. I was out walking Bodhi and it fell out of my pocket somewhere in the snow. There was two to three feet of snow everywhere. I responded to the loss this way:
#1 – I’d like to get the case back, and in the meantime I’m going to get another pair because I use them every day.
#2 – I trusted that it would come back to me and I pretty much forgot about it. I didn’t judge myself for losing them. I just said, “Life! It’s always happening.”
The snow is mostly melted now and I was walking Bodhi yesterday morning when I found them by the road at the end of the driveway where they probably had been under a huge pile of snow left by the snow plows. And it still works perfectly. How cool is that?
Here’s what I find over and over again: when people finally do this forgiveness work, the aftermath is miracles.
People have miraculous shifts in consciousness that take them by surprise.
Relationships heal.
Old pain dissolves.
Clarity floods in where confusion used to live.
This is why forgiveness offers everything we want – it opens our mind to the healing, the transformation, the insight, the wisdom, and the clarity that have been ours all along.
All of it has been blocked by the resentments, the regrets, the hurt, and the anger.
The critical first step is being willing to let the judgments against ourselves dissolve. Not the judgments against the other person first – ourselves first. Then we keep practicing and practicing releasing our attachments to our opinions.
One of the most wonderful parts of this work is what happens when our loved ones and friends can actually see the shift in us. When they witness that we’ve sincerely released those attack thoughts, it inspires them to let things go too. They feel safer with us. Our forgiveness becomes contagious.
Our loved ones are the people who experience the effects of our forgiveness more than anyone else besides ourselves.
Everybody benefits. All beings benefit whenever we decide to forgive.
A Course in Miracles tells us: “It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find Peace.”
For me, that’s an impetus that appeals deeply to my heart. Being able to bring benefit to everyone everywhere is hugely inspiring. I’m interested in anything we can do that brings benefit to everyone everywhere.
Forgiveness is the thing that offers the most liftoff and the highest vibration to benefit others.
I’m grateful for every single person who’s told me they used the forgiveness teachings I share and they felt so much better right away. Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn’t share that with me. That’s what keeps me offering the free workshops. Come join my next one – click here to register.
In my Masterful Living Program, we practice forgiveness together all year long – and the miracles just keep unfolding. The aftermath of Forgiveness is always, always miracles. Let’s experience it for ourselves.
My Letting Go of A Person Deep Dive Workshop this Saturday, March 21 is a powerful, focused space to release the attachments and co-dependency and watch the miracles come flooding in.
