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The Art of Forgiveness and Love Module 1 - The Power of Forgiveness
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The Art of forgiveness and love. Forgiveness helps us on all levels physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. If you want to experience good health, happiness and general well being, you will have to make use of the amazing power of forgiveness. Doctors, psychotherapists, scientists, philosophers, and spiritual masters have all emphasized on the importance of forgiveness. In fact, your entire life may depend on your ability to forgive This is what the experts have to say. Dr. Kathleen Hall, founder of the stress Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, has worked with many clients suffering from diseases such as cancer, heart disease, insomnia, and hypertension.

After many years of observation, she came to the conclusion that if there is one essential attribute that creates health and well being, it is the practice of forgiveness. Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard University is convinced that the practice of forgiveness is crucial for good health. He has created an entire course at Harvard on forgiveness and health. There is a direct relationship between a physiological response of healing and forgiveness. Dr. James Carson of Duke University Medical Center claims that individuals with chronic back pain who have forgiven others experience lower levels of pain, depression and anger than those who do not forgive. As you can see, clearly, forgiveness is a wonderful and powerful energy that everyone can benefit from using in all aspects of their lives.

Many of us carry painful and emotional memories of events that are taking place throughout our lives. It can be from a difficult childhood, unhealthy family situations, struggling with your health, stress from work and conflicts from various day to day situations. painful memories from the past because very deep emotional scars. These scars can manifest themselves as migraines, fear, anxiety, arthritis, cancer. Depression and a number of other illnesses just to name a few. A lot of us are suffering from psychosomatic disorders.

Psychosomatic means that there is a mind and body connection. The source of the problem originates in the mind, but results as a physical illness. There are four essential components to every person, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. The key to living a life of health, happiness, and overall well being, is to balance all of these four components. If you only focus on one area, for example, the physical component and ignore your emotional, mental and spiritual counterparts, you will be thrown out of balance. Currently, there is much research being done in the field of Mind Body medicine.

Dr. Kathleen Hall of the Stress Institute has studied with Dr. Herbert Benson of the Harvard Mind Body Institute, as well as Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute. Dr. Hall states that she has worked with individuals with all kinds of problems. These include terminal cancer, depression, those who are divorced, rich and poor. She is convinced that the root of all problems is a spiritual conflict. They don't know how to live a life of balance. They're living such hollow busy lies, that they don't know how to live an intentional life of happiness.

Dr. Kathleen Hall explains in her book, a life in balance, how forgiveness affects your mind. Quote, when someone makes a genuine apology, there is an almost immediate positive impact upon the mind. The person that was not forgiven has lived in your mind and has actually taken up physical, mental and spiritual space in the unforgiving memory you hold. Remember that a thought creates energy, you carry this negative memory around in your mind, and it actually takes energy away from your mind and thus your mental health. Consequently, when you practice forgiveness, your mind will signal your physical body and it has an immediate positive impact. Unquote.

For thousands of years, all the great spiritual masters have been teaching us how important it is to forgive Lord Krishna, Prophet Muhammad, Jesus Christ, Buddha, mahaveer and various other saints and sages have emphasized on the importance of forgiveness. There are many aspects of forgiveness. If you have to ask for forgiveness from God, and you have to seek forgiveness from those people whom you have mistreated. Once you ask for forgiveness, you will also have to learn to return it. You must forgive others for their mistreatment of you. There are certain acts which God can forgive.

Wrongdoing which does not involve another human being can be forgiven by the mercy of God. If you have inflicted pain on human beings, however, God may not forgive you on their behalf, you will have to seek forgiveness from the person whom you are mistreated in this life or the next. The Wheel of karma turns forever. The law of karma states that every action has a consequence. One way to escape from this tedious cycle of cause and effect, birth and death is to use the Power of forgiveness. You are not aware of every wrongdoing that requires forgiveness.

Your negative acts like all aspects of your past lives are locked into the subconscious mind. God is very compassionate. He knows that you are not aware of your past mistakes. He will give you many opportunities to seek forgiveness, and more importantly, to grant forgiveness, your family members, your friends and your colleagues around you because you have to forgive them. In today's society, we hear of many situations dealing with child abuse, being unfaithful to your marriage partner, children, abusing their parents and so on. A person you may not know may suddenly appear in front of you and insult you for no apparent reason.

The only way to get out of this destructive cycle of pain and retaliation is to learn to forgive. First, you must accept and forgive Give all the harm that has been done to you, then you must steer your freewill in the right direction. Once you have forgiven move on, do not continue the cycle by responding angrily to the individual who mistreated you. psychotherapy is becoming a very effective therapy for forgiveness. This treatment deals with psychological disturbances that conventional medicine cannot successfully treat. psychotherapists who used regression therapy to heal, agree that many symptoms are the result of early emotional trauma.

They also believe that the original suffering may have come from past lives. These traumas later manifests themselves as cancer, depression, neurosis, arthritis, loss of appetite, or various other illnesses. psychotherapists often tell their patients that they need to forgive a particular person or A particular group in order to heal themselves. Quite often, the illness begins to disappear once the patient forgets, and lets go. From a spiritual point of view. This therapy makes sense and is very helpful in treating the patient.

The therapist may have to regress the patient far into the past to discover the incident that caused the trauma. The patient has repressed the memory. Even though the patient seems unaware of the trauma, it is a part of a deep, subconscious memory, and it causes serious physical and mental damage. When you forgive, you have to do so from the depths of your soul. Making the motions of forgiveness does not mean that you have truly forgiven. forgiving is not as easy as it sounds.

You have to go consciously into the depths of your soul to be able to forgive. This is why sometimes you need the help of a psychotherapist An individual you knew in a past life thousands of years ago may come into contact with you. This individual may regress past karma with you in the form of forgiveness. You may not be aware of who this person is, but your subconscious remembers from the past. Usually the person who forgives benefits more than the person who was forgiven. Sometimes when you come into contact with a certain person, you experience an intense sadness.

This person may have harmed you in the past. God is giving you a chance either to forgive this person or to compound the injury. At this point, you will have to use your wisdom you will have to forgive and move on. This will be one of the most difficult decisions you will make because your natural tendency will be to retaliate. You have to learn to forgive first and then forget how can you forget first and Forgive by forgetting, you will not know what it is that you have to forgive. The only way to move forward in your journey is to break the ties that connect you to the past.

The only way to break them is by consciously forgiving. get into the habit of asking for forgiveness from God and those around you. More importantly, get into the habit of forgiving others. You also have to make a conscious effort to forgive yourself. Sometimes we are too hard on ourselves, and this can be a cause for serious problems. Be compassionate to yourself and forgive yourself on all levels.

You will be many levels closer to enlightenment once you learn how to forgive

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