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Forgiveness.

When we hold onto resentment, it’s only heavy and bad for us. Forgiveness allows us to drop that weight and move on with our lives. We choose a clean slate inside.

We can forgive without forgetting. Im not advocating being naive, that would be foolish, but releasing the pain, anger and other emotions is healing for your soul.

This isn’t about being a pushover or overly nice, those aren’t good things. It’s about choosing not to poison yourself carrying bitterness and resentment in your heart.

We all need to be forgiven of something, so let’s not be hypocrites. We all make mistakes and have regrets. So let’s not condemn and judge others, we’re flawed too.

Maybe if we’re really open, we can even try to see things from another persons perspective or point of view. Who knows how we would be in their situation.

Another person to forgive is you. Empathize with your past self, you were doing the best you could at the time. Stop beating yourself up and judging yourself.

We cannot change the past so no point being your own torturer. It’s gone, like a puff of smoke, there’s no re-arranging it now, despite our wishes. But you’re here.

You made it through that season, and you’re still going. So let’s incorporate the important lessons from the past, but let’s stop dwelling on things we can’t change.

What sense is there being a prisoner to your own memories? I understand it can be hard to process certain memories and I have the same struggle, but we’re not stuck.

When we catch ourselves self condemning and beating ourselves up, we stop, we breathe and we release ourselves from the pressure. Let it go, you’re here now.

This moment is where we exist. The past is not here, nor is the future. We terrify ourselves with illusions and make ourselves miserable. But that’s not necessary.

We can forgive ourselves for our flaws and weaknesses, knowing we all have issues, but we’re striving to improve our lives and grow into balanced peaceful people.

We can forgive others for the same reasons. We don’t fully understand people or why they do what they do, often it seems mysterious, but we know they’re human.

And humans aren’t perfect, we mess up. We get ourselves into things we shouldn’t sometimes, we need help sometimes, we need healing often, we lash out from pain.

Often hurting people hurt people. Often spiritual brokenness causes more suffering as pain gets released in unhealthy ways. It doesn't need to be this way.

Thats how little children react to pain, we can behave in more mature developed ways but unfortunately, many still don’t control their own emotions at all.

So we forgive. We don’t allow ourselves to be stepped on, we don’t become weak and passive, if we need to make space fine, but mentally, we release the situation.

We release the pain, we forgive, so we’re not walking around carrying something thats draining us. We forgive to be set free, and so we may be forgiven as well.

Because we also need forgiveness, none of us are perfect. So instead of holding the toxic sludge of resentment and hatred, try fully dropping it and see how you feel.