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Are you still carrying around the time your best friend let you down? Are you still angry with yourself because you lost your temper at a friend who was truly giving you his or her best? Do you still grieve for a loved one who meant the world to you? Are you carrying around your family’s pain because a relative let everyone down? Perhaps you are really angry at a school or college or company because it chose to not accept you or a loved one.
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Unless you are willing to be honest with yourself about old hurts, resentments, and painful thoughts and feelings you continue to carry with you, you will have difficulty developing intuitively. What is required here is having the intention of forgiving those who have hurt you, not for the other person’s sake, but for yours. Also, essential is holding them in your focus, being willing to truly forgive them for their actions, and then surrendering them to the Universe. Here’s a powerful technique: Begin first by focusing on your breath, and only when calm and relaxed, picture your heart filling with love. Feel the love in your heart. Then, focus on the individual you wish to forgive, send this love to the person and, while doing do, repeat (with feeling) the words, I forgive you. Also, state, or think the thought, I surrender you to the Universe or God because I need to be detached from you and move one with my life. Sometimes, it helps to picture a cord that runs between you and the individual and to imagine taking a scissors and cutting the cord while you are forgiving this person. See them sliding away from you; feel your energy of well-being returning and filling you with a sense of peace. The more you practice this throughout the day, while in meditation, or during each of your breath exercises, the easier it will become for you achieve true forgiveness. Eventually, it will feel more genuine and you will feel lighter, healthier and happier. Remember, this is for you healing you and not for the other person!