The Healing Power Of Heart-Felt Forgiveness

To achieve true and lasting healing of all transgressions, we must find heart-felt forgiveness. 

When we’re unable to forgive—not only others but ourself—we create disharmony within the whole of our being. We came from love and eventually we’re to find our way back to unconditional love. Not being able to forgive goes against love. Carrying the burden of unforgiveness only prolongs our state of separation from love. 

Despite being connected globally with technology, many people feel disconnected. This is due in large part to beliefs and patterns adopted throughout the years that go against our authentic nature of being in love with life. We unknowingly hang on to feelings and judgements as mechanisms of defense against perceived threats. When we harbor grudges, resentment, jealousy, or any other lowering energies, we compromise our balance and wellness. Addictions—resulting from lack of self-love—are used as a form of escapism and serve to reinforce our denial, and keep buried less than ideal feelings we’re unwilling to acknowledge.

From an energetic or spiritual standpoint, inability to forgive manifests in varying degrees of physical discomforts and mental and/or emotional distresses. Triggers of unresolved conflicts lead to disturbances and blockages. Whenever we hold negative thoughts and feelings, we’re creating a reality antagonistic to love; we end up actually rejecting what it is we all seek, our wholeness in love.

Being triggered in any way by thoughts that bring discontentment and discomfort, or not being able to send love to any situation we gave away our power to with unforgiveness means we’re still in an unnatural state. 

At the physical level, trouble arises when we ignore for too long the subtle cues our body sends us to tell us we need to release negative feelings and emotions stemming from perceptions of wrong and right. Physical symptoms of unforgiveness are many and range from allergies to heart disease. It’s in our best interest to put in every effort necessary to let go of any ill-feelings towards ourself and others as soon as possible.

We are magnetic beings, and what we send out comes back to us.

On the mental and emotional levels, an unwillingness to forgive what or who we perceive wronged us means we are choosing to be a victim. If the victim role is held for too long or was formed from traumatic impact and is not transformed and released, it remains in the subconscious and attracts back to us what we need to face. This shows up in repeating themes in what are different scenes, but plays out with the same types of characters and circumstances. In time physical manifestations come front and center until it’s critical we take back our power and lose the victim mentality through forgiveness. Too often, the only way people will stop long enough to change their way of thinking is when something drastic happens to them. 

Forgiveness focuses exclusively on benefits of letting go and dismisses all reasons against it. As we grow and evolve, we learn to acknowledge, accept, release, and forgive.

Energy medicine therapies such as Reiki can help bring to light what needs to be released and transformed by bringing us to a state of love.

It’s never too late to forgive and to love. Although forgiving others requires maturity and acceptance, 

It’s really for our own self first that we forgive.