Removing Bocks to Success Part 2

I said I would talk more about forgiveness last in Feb. Stephen Levine's Healing into Life and Death has an excellent forgiveness meditation in it. I also have a copy of that mediation I can send to you.

What is forgiveness? The dictionary defines this as "stop being angry at someone" or to absolve someone. When we ask to both to forgive another and ask another to forgive us. Finally we forgive ourselves.

How is this done? Forgiveness is a softening of the heart. We block those out from our love and exclude someone you has deeply hurt us. Some may say that so-and-so is a toxic person that continually hurts me so I can't be around that person. While this may be true and we need to honor our boundaries and integrity - not putting ourselves in harm's way is an act of self love, we can still forgive the toxic person and choose not to be in contact with them. Many of you already know this and yet sometimes reminders are good.

Those of you in a 12 - step program who are working the steps know of making amends. Through your behavior you have wronged another and you take steps when no harm will come to you or the other to make amends. Making an amend is more than a mere apology - it is a way of repairing your karma and bringing justice to a wrong you have committed in the past. If we carry the amend process to past lives we step from how we may have been hurt and wronged deeply in this life to the mirror of how we hurt others in a past life.

Making amends in a past life is not a mental exercise when we are serious. And you may need help from a shaman if it is to be more than mental play. When the emotional and physical bodies are brought into play through the darkness of the underworld skirting across the edges of the void then the past may be cleansed so that in the present the blocks may be clearly seen and destroyed.

Then forward progress is assured.