Forgiveness Clears The Blockage From The Past

Holding grudges, both consciously and beneath the surface, will seriously erode your energy and prevent you from being able to fully focus on manifesting your desires. Fortunately once you acknowledge the need to forgive, the rest is easy.

Most people resist the idea of forgiveness because they want to hold on to blaming others for their problems. However, even when others do play a hand in the “negative” events of our life, we can never fully move pat such events without mindfully forgiving and letting go.

And most of us carry around considerable burden from our past. We may not consciously remember a grudge but still be holding it tightly.

If you have ever seen an old acquaintance and immediately become bitter about a past event that you hadn’t even thought of for months or years, you have experienced firsthand the human ability to refuse forgiveness. The fact is we must make a specific effort to forgive and let go in order to release harmful and negative energies.

And forgiveness need not involve a conversation, or any type of interaction, with another person. True forgiveness and letting go take place completely in our minds and actually have little to do with people outside of us.

One great way to achieve forgiveness is to write the person you are holding hostility towards a letter explaining that you no longer hold them in any way accountable and that you wish them the best of love and happiness in life. Be sure to put honest emotion into the letter, and then feel free to throw it away once you’re finished.

Again, there is no need to even communicate with the other person. This is about you and not them.

If you can’t think of anyone you might be holding a grudge against, you could say out loud that you wish to forgive and release from responsibility any parents, family members, friends from past and present, employers and coworkers, customers, and businesses that you have ever had a disagreement with. Also decide to be aware each day of resentments and hostilities as they arise and be prepared to forgive and let go when the need arises.

In doing this, also be sure to address any angers you might hold against the universe, God, or whatever you use to refer to the events of life. Many people go through life feeling they are victims of circumstance, and this is an enormous obstacle to achieving any type of happiness and prosperity. By consciously forgiving the universe for anything you have previously felt victimized for you will free up massive amounts of creative energy.

And most importantly of all, you need to take the time to forgive yourself. All of us become angry with ourselves from time to time. While it’s healthy to hold high self-expectations, it is very damaging to resent yourself for perceived failures and mistakes.

Tell yourself that every experience you’ve had in life is taking you in the direction you want to go. Refuse to believe in the myth of “wasted time” and understand that your journey is a process of learning and growing.

Let go of anything you are holding against yourself, and allow your true greatness to surface. This is one of the most important steps you will ever take on your path to abundance and happiness.

Source: Timothy Aaron Whiston (ArticleDashboard.com)

The Challenge Of Death And Dying: Letting Go Of A Loved One

Beloved Ones, the passage into death is not one to be feared, but one that signals the completion of one phase of life so that another can begin. For in truth, there is no such thing as death, only ongoing life for souls in an ever-expanding process of exploration and learning. The journey is infinite, as are the capacities of each and every soul.

Nevertheless, the emotions created by the loss or anticipated loss of a beloved one are painful to the ones who remain behind, even when there has been a long process of anticipating such an event, and even when the loved one is elderly or quite ill. Even then, the ties of connection can remain strong and the difficulty in letting go can remain equally strong.

What needs to be understood is that these ties of attachment are more than just emotions felt for a period of time. Often, there are karmic ties of long standing that have created deep energetic connections which can be felt within the body. For this reason it is both physically and emotionally true that the loved one feels like a part of oneself. The energetic ties create a sense of relationship over years and over lifetimes. They create a sense of sharing a life with another, even if that other is far away. When the other departs or is on the brink of departing, it can feel as if a piece of oneself is departing as well. In fact, this is literally the case, for following the transition from the physical plane, and sometimes even before it occurs, the energetic ties to those departing begin to be severed, not totally, but enough so that there is an experience of the separation that can be felt in a physical-energetic way. At times, following the death of a loved one, this rupture can feel quite severe, as if there were a forcible ripping away of part of oneself. These are the energetic ties that are leaving along with the physical body of the one who has departed. They are not the ties of love which are able to remain.

How then, given the degree of loss and attachment that can be felt toward those who are loved, is it possible to let go with grace? The answer cannot be a general one, for each individual heart is different, and each one loves in their own unique way. And yet there are components that are similar. The first lies in the willingness to deeply feel the loss, sadness, or grief that may be involved, knowing that there is much of life and learning that is incorporated into the letting go process itself. This process involves teachings that are profoundly intimate that can open the heart to greater life and greater love.

At the same time it is important to entrust the departing one to God and to the future unfoldment of their own journey, as well as to trust the continuation of one's own journey. This assurance of goodness in the presence of death is a foundation for being able to let go with grace, and the absence of this assurance, more than anything else, allows the emotions of despair and loss to become paramount without the softening feeling that arises from trust in the future.

It is also important to understand that the nature and timing of death is part of the life-plan of each soul, built into the blueprint for each incarnation as much as any other feature is built in. This does not mean that the plan is immutable, for there are still choices that remain to each soul regarding timing and regarding the manner of death. There are also new decisions that can sometimes be made, especially when a strong period of spiritual growth has taken place and new factors enter the picture. Yet, for many, the time of transition has been chosen by the soul in accompaniment with Divine will and wisdom prior to arriving on the earth, and despite the suffering that may be involved, the process itself is a significant part of life - as great a teacher as any other aspect of life. In fact, the passage through death is often of greater significance, both in the dying process itself and in the final moments of breath. Often, a soul learns during these final moments more than may have been possible during an entire lifetime.

There is no remedy for the sadness of loss which is an intimate part of love. And yet loss and sorrow can be accompanied by joy, for the heart is large enough to hold both. If all of life is a saying "hello" to circumstances, people, and events that cross one's path, then all of life is also and simultaneously a saying "goodbye" to those same circumstances, people, and events so that something new can take their place. Yet in the midst of this, in the presence of ceaseless change, what remains is love. For the bonds of love are enduring and cannot be severed by death. This is the ultimate comfort in the presence of death and dying – that the bonds of love can grow roots within the heart itself, and once implanted there, are able to remain forever.



Source: Julie Redstone (ArticleDashboard.com)

"let Go And Move Upwards" – Awareness

The story of the three rich brothers

“Once upon a time, there were three very wealthy brothers. They lived happy together in their very big mansion, sharing all money can buy – society parties, fast cars, jewels that museums and princesses would die for. Then one day, war came to their town. Troops are storming into their mansion, half of which has collapsed from multiple air-strikes.

The three brothers gathered as many of their processions as possible and made their escape through an underground cave path with soldiers hot on their heels. They got stuck at the escape opening as it is too narrow.

”Pause and think: What would you do if you are one of the brothers?“

The youngest brother immediately threw down all the bundles he was carrying and slip through the opening, the second brother discarded most of his load saving only an antique clock of solid gold, struggled past the opening. The eldest kept trying to squeeze though the opening and was killed while he was still trying to push his processions through the opening.

”Pause and think: Which brother are you?

Are you more like the youngest brother whose immediate reaction to an opportunity to move forward, was to let go of all that he has, and move onwards? Or, will you react more like the second brother who prioritised and pick the “things” that have meaning or would be helpful to him, and move onwards?

Key Thought:

Holding too tight on what we have in the past or at present, we cannot open up to receive other things coming to us.

If the eldest of the brothers has let go of his processions, he will gain freedom like his two brothers, and the chance to start again and regain their wealth.

This article aims to help us to identify and be aware of how we will naturally response to the need to let go of our past and current (experiences, emotions and choices) in other to move on successfully to another stage of our lives. With awareness, we are able take the next step of action to let go and move upwards!

Source: YoungButThinkRich (ArticleDashboard.com)

Letting Go Of The How

Do you believe in the law of attraction? Do you believe it works? Well, I have my own story to share about letting go of the how things work and just believe that they will.

Most people worry a lot about finances and want more in their life. What I have done is come up with some affirmations of things you want to appear in your life. Since we are on the subject of money, here is one for that: "money comes to me easily and effortlessly". Now the problem most people have is that they don't believe that this can happen for them. One of the key elements to attracting what you want is faith. You have to have faith that this will come to you.

This is what happened to me. I am faithful with my affirmations every single day and I say them three times a day. You have to feel deserving of what you are asking for. I say them with a smile on my face and in my heart; then I just let them go. Like many, I had no idea how money would end up showing up in my mailbox since I knew no one owed me anything and it wasn't going to come out of thin air. WRONG!!!

I went to my mailbox one day and I had a check from the insurance company. It was from a procedure I had over a year ago and they were just now getting around to reimbursing me. Imagine my surprise and delight. Not long after that I had my yearly checkup with my doctor and two months after that visit I received another check in the mail from the insurance company reimbursing me again for overpayment. I just thought no one owed me anything! The best one is I had to do my income taxes and this is my first year in business for myself. I had no idea what to expect and I have to admit, I was nervous. But, I had my moment and let it go because dwelling on the "what if" does no one any good. Low and behold, I'm getting a refund and it's a big one. Now tell yourself this doesn't work! You won't know until you try.

What I have learned is that not only do you ask, believe and you will receive, but you also have to have faith and you have to put this into action. You can't say you want a profitable business and then do nothing toward making it a success. If you put in the work, the results will come back to you. I am now living proof!

Source: Adrienne Smith (ArticleDashboard.com)

An Affirmation for Letting Go

I am willing to trust. I know that to the degree I am willing to give up my search for a healthy love relationship, I can have it. I know I can have whatever I am ready and willing to receive. Individual receptivity is everything. Without it, nothing changes. With it, all things are possible. I no longer insist upon my choice.

I know that the only thing I lose when I let go of something I am afraid to live without is the fear itself. I am stronger than anything that frightens me!

I let go of the past, and I am free to think clearly and positively in the present. I am not my past.

Letting go is the natural release which always follows the realization that holding on is an energy drain and it hurts. Letting go happens effortlessly when there is no other choice. Letting go does not mean giving up.


LoveNote. . . A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth -- with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished. - Frank P. Tebbetts

Letting go is a journey that never ends. Never. It only begins -- over and over again -- each time I can glimpse something higher than my own painful certainty over who I think I am. There is always something higher; a life beyond the limits of my present sight.

To see what is farther I must be willing to lift my eyes from their present point of focus. Release always follows revelation and real revelation is always a glimpse of something that was only just out of sight.

I know that stress in my love relationship exists because I insist! What I resist, persists. I am tied to whatever I avoid.

LoveNote. . . The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to. - Hugh Prather

It is a mistaken belief that I must push my love relationship in the direction I choose that keeps me in a strained and unhappy relationship with it. Reality has its own effortless course, and I can either embrace its way or struggle endlessly with mine.

I do not need power to flow.

I let go of that part of myself that is certain it is better to suffer and feel like someone than it is to just let go and quietly be no one. I give birth to a new me that never has to hold on to anything because it is already everything.

I dare to walk away from all of the familiar but useless mental and emotional relationships that give me a temporary but unsatisfactory sense of self. My true identity is calling me and to hear it I must be willing to endure, for as long as necessary, the fear of self-uncertainty.

This form of seeming self-abandonment eventually turns into my greatest pleasure as it becomes increasingly evident that the only thing certain about fear is that it will always compromise me. When it comes to who I really am, there is no compromise.

Let go of the past. The past is yesterday. It is irretrievable. When you relate to the past, you relate to no one or anything. You are literally talking to yourself. No one else is listening. You have already heard all you have to say about that, so, let go.

A Course in Miracles says, "You cannot really not let go what has already gone. It must be, therefore, that you are maintaining the illusion that it has not gone because you think it serves some purpose that you want fulfilled."

It is certifiable insanity to conjure up your own reality based on the past and relate to it, rather than to relate to the present which is the only reality.


LoveNote. . . Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. - Marianne Williamson

I say goodbye to the past and hello to the present.

I am enthusiastic about who I am becoming! I know that no one sincerely asks for a new life until they are thoroughly dissatisfied with the old one. I am and I let go. When I allow myself to let go of what is old, I stay true to what is new.

I believe that as with all insight, higher understanding itself contains not only the instructions I must follow, but the strength I will need to carry them out.

Starting life over again is the key to a new me. I see the beauty and significance of starting over - over and over and over. Every present moment is always new and new is always right now! The new dies to the ever-new in an endless celebration of Life.

This is it!

I live in the present. I never let the past dictate the direction of the present moment. I give my best to my endeavors.

What lies ahead for me can only be good.

True peace and harmony are a part of who I am.

I have come to the realization that what is possible for me to become only truly changes when I am willing to see what is impossible for me to continue being.

My true nature is already fully independent and flying freely. I have found my wings.

I let go and let God. And so it is.




Source: Larry James (CelebrateLove.com)

Letting Go Of Stress Completely

You will find everywhere you look and with the fast-paced life that individuals endure these days, stress is part of our daily lives. As a matter of fact, individuals are so accustomed it that they deal with it as a regular daily occurrence but tension, when not handled the correct way, can lead to all forms of health problems, fundamental of which is heart problems. This is especially true with individuals who have had family history of heart problems.

Managing Stress is nevertheless, really simple to do when you make the effort, so if you keep in mind to keep it from happening, you can in reality experience a stress-free life or at the very minimum, be able to deal with it easily because let’s face it, coping with stress is stressful in itself. You don’t really have to go to elaborate lengths to free the tension - you can remove it by avoiding its happening in the first place. Read further and you may just stop those lines from coming out.

Tension is so usual these days that its expected by everyone, so it’s advisable that you organize yourself for the big troubles and let go of the tinier, insignificant ones. You can only do this if you maintain an organized life because just looking for your misplaced pen in the workplace can produce stress, not to mention, make you lose your concentration. Don’t let that happen, so keep your life arranged and it will ensure you are more prepared to handle the bigger issues.

It is not true that creative juices only come out when we are rushed, it’s just they appear during those times because we are forced to think. With plenty of self-will, we can surely think of imaginative concepts without stressing ourselves for want of time and by starting early it will also mean that you won’t have to be rushed when you are working on a job. You can take your time and actually think about what you are trying to achieve and this will not only prevent you from getting too tense, but, also permit you to produce great imaginative work.

Tension points will seldom involve you provided you are ready for it, health-wise. You see, when your body is well and is full of energy, you are just about fortified from the consequences of stress such as the reduction of energy levels, nervous breakdown and often, even heart conditions. This can only be done by living healthy through eating the right types of food and having the required sleep each day. If you consider that you are already approaching your breaking point, don’t be a martyr and take time out because this will do you a lot of good as it will assist you reload and de-tension yourself.

If you’re too occupied, don’t put it off as doing so will only make the stress build up inside you until you become too stressed out to even do anything. it i for this reason employers give vacation leave so that people can take a while to relax and regain their previous vigor levels, and imaginative selves. By: Jeff Jesper

Source: Ben Bridges (Self Love Tips)

Letting Go of Hurt

Letting go of hurt can be difficult especially if the hurt stems from something that someone you love said or did. Letting go means you have made the decision to NOT ALLOW the actions of others to affect how you feel toward yourself.

Positive affirmations can help you overcome painful hurt feelings. The right positive words composed with the right focus are the key to healing the hurt.


Affirmations:

I release feelings of hurt and replace them with loving kindness for myself.

Hurtful words and actions are in the past. I dwell only in the loving presence of this moment.

> I forgive the past and open my heart to the joys of life.

> I live in the light and love of now and let go of all past hurtful words and actions.

> I let go of my painful past feelings. Life is good and so am I.

> I recognize now I am free to let go of all hurtful past events.

> I leave painful feelings behind and move into the joy of each present moment.

> As I learn and grow I forgive and let go of the painful past.

> I am master of my world. I have let go of all past hurts and live in the now.

> I forgive and release my painful feelings and know that all is right in my world.

Source: Living Words of Wisdom