Are you holding on to a grudge or guilt that feels impossible to let go?
Let's talk about forgiveness and how it can set you free.
Grab your smoothie or a cup of tea and join the conversation.
Let's go.
Now forgiveness,
When we talk about forgiveness,
It's all about releasing resentment towards yourself or others,
Not as condoning any harmful behavior,
But as freeing yourself from emotional baggage.
So,
Of course,
I totally get it.
I've had my challenges with learning how to forgive people and move on.
Learning to forgive,
Not necessarily all for them,
But for me,
Because holding on to that resentment,
All it did was just make my couldn't sleep.
You know,
I was trying to,
You know,
Start to stress myself out a little bit,
But just realizing that I can be the bigger person.
To me,
If I want to call it being a bigger person,
I can learn to forgive this.
So let me know if there's anything that you have dealt with where you feel like you had to let things go.
You had to be the person to forgive and just working through that,
You can go through all the words and emotions,
But it's a continuously reminding yourself of why you did it.
Not because you're stupid,
Not because you let them get one up on you or whatever,
But you chose to be free and that's something that you can choose every day.
Tips.
We have three tips to share.
Number one,
Start with self-forgiveness.
Acknowledge your mistakes and affirm that you deserve compassion.
Again,
Going back to what part that you play in it,
Acknowledge your mistake.
Maybe there were some warning signs that you didn't see.
I can totally relate about that.
And then just give yourself some compassion.
And then number two,
Reframe your perspective.
Shift from they hurt me to I release this pain for my own peace.
And I relate because it did hurt a lot,
You know?
Seemed like it was pretty cool,
Pretty cool people.
And I had to change that thing around and say,
I release this pain for my own peace.
I chose to feel that way.
I chose to allow these series of things to make me feel this way.
And I'm going to release this pain because we can switch off these things.
We can choose our course of action.
Whether you believe that or not,
We do have options.
We do have choices.
So I chose to release the pain for my own peace and you can do the same.
Number three,
Use a ritual so you can write down what you're forgiving.
So get a piece of paper,
Write it down.
You may have seen this exercise before,
Let it go by tearing it up or symbolically burning it all together.
So I know I forgot.
I'm trying to figure out where I saw this.
It was something else that I,
Maybe it was a article some years ago.
I read about somebody actually burning,
Having like a burn party or something like that.
So whatever,
You know,
Fits your fancy,
Whatever works.
All right.
All right.
So with this forgiveness,
It lightens your emotional load and allows you to focus on personal growth.
Once I released that,
I could start the process of healing and personal growth.
This is all dealing with our midlife because as we're getting in our midlife stages and beyond,
You realize that none of that stuff,
Like we don't have that much time to be holding on to all these things.
We need to be at the stage where we are living our best life and letting go so we can be renewed,
Restored,
And refreshed into this new life.
Right?
All right.
Your action for today,
Your SMART goal,
You're going to,
You're going to choose one person,
Including yourself,
To forgive this week.
You're going to write down what you're releasing and why and reflect on how this act of forgiveness makes you feel.
Like how does it really make you feel?
All right.
Thanks so much for tuning in to this episode on Insight Timer.
I can't wait to connect more with you.
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Talk to you soon.
