Forgiveness For Peace & Healing

Hello,

You are listening to a guided meditation for forgiveness.

This meditation will be most effective if you listen in repetition over time.

You may return to it whenever you are struggling with feelings of hurt and wish to feel better and elevate your mood and energy.

This is not for anyone else but you.

And this guided meditation will help you to connect with a healing sensation of letting go of ties and memories and circumstances that have left you in pain.

You deserve to be at peace and if this is what you want,

Then you have all the freedom and power in the world to choose peace and to feel good right now.

I'd like to welcome you to Michelle's Sanctuary.

I am Michelle and as you are listening,

You may surrender to the sound of my voice and the positive healing words that I bring to you.

I am your guide and I am your ally.

As you listen,

I want you to feel loved and a warm wave of light that washes over you,

Causing a tingling sensation of aliveness.

And these good soothing sensations may help you relax and remind you what it is like to be cared for and tended to.

Just by taking the time to come here,

You have already taken a big step towards healing and towards embracing every day to the fullest.

You have decided that you no longer wish to be tied down to pain or have your mind cluttered with thoughts on repeat that do nothing but hurt you.

It's ok to feel sad.

It's ok to feel disappointed in people.

But there is a time when you realize you just do not want to feel bad anymore.

A time when you want your power back.

You may take that time right now to feel light and carefree and untethered to emotional weight that bogs you down.

So get comfortable in a seated position or lying down on a floor or on your bed or couch.

Close your eyes if they aren't already closed.

Sigh out all the air in your lungs.

Make a sound and shake it all out before finding stillness if that feels right.

And then take a sip of air,

Slowly at first.

And then deeper and deeper you inhale and fill your belly and let your chest rise.

Then sigh it out again.

Let it go.

There may be a part of you that is holding on to these bad feelings really tightly.

Begin a deep breath and let the air be like a healing,

Cool wave of ocean water that flows through your body and releases tension in the places of holding.

And then sigh it out.

You're free to be fluid and relaxed and as limp as you would like.

Realizing what it is like to surrender and find ease in your body as we continue on this journey towards forgiveness.

When you learn to forgive,

You learn to get back the power to live your own life in the best possible way.

You are able to feel like you are a hero and not a victim.

That you are strong and resilient and you are in charge of how you feel.

No one else is the master of your emotions.

If this were a movie,

You are the writer and the star and editor.

You make the script for what you say and what you do.

You are the focus of the movie as a star.

And you get to edit out the thoughts and experiences that just don't work with the movie you are trying to make.

Forgiveness and the healing to come is a process.

And it can be a process that is fast or it can take time.

And you may accept whatever process unfolds.

Realizing that healing can very often take more time than you would like.

And it may not be all at once.

It may be a little at a time.

And there may be times that something triggers pain to return.

But over time you may find that what once felt like lightning bolts,

Bright and fierce,

Will become like the small static electricity to light up a blanket in the dark of a bedroom at night.

When this happens,

You are free to step back and acknowledge what is going on within.

You may remember that you have chosen the path to healing and feeling good.

Because there is nothing in this life that may be better than feeling unbridled joy and passion and an enthusiasm and curiosity for life.

You may find yourself carrying the pain from someone who is no longer in your life and merely exists in memories and dreams and your daily thoughts.

Or perhaps this is someone who is actively in your life.

It does not matter the case if the pain is still carried on in your heart.

Your heart is yours.

And you deserve to feel free,

To feel clear and healed inside.

Louis B.

Smedes once said,

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Your mind becomes the prison as you find yourself replaying and repeating all the wrongs that a person has done to you.

Moving on and on as you are swirling inside a tornado of self doubt and pain.

When you feel these thoughts,

You will turn the conversation back to you.

You will replace the words of blame for someone else with words of victory about yourself.

You are the hero in this story.

So let's start with some positive affirmations.

I am healing.

I am worthy of so much.

I deserve to be loved and to be honored.

I deserve to be surrounded by other people who are able to love me and support me being happy.

Because love is joy.

Love is positive reinforcement.

It is the sun that allows flowers to blossom and the water that seeps into the earth and travels through roots to allow beauty to bloom.

And you may remind yourself,

I am doing well and I am recovering.

I am in control of what thoughts I allow into my mind.

I am in control of how I react and how I engage.

I am worthy.

I am responsible for my own change and my own growth.

I am worth more than the pain I have experienced.

I am able to seek out the connections that protect me.

And like a fortress of love,

The energy of those connections helps me disengage from what I know not to be love.

Wayne Dyer once said,

How you treat me is your karma.

How I react is mine.

Often the people who hurt us most are operating from a place of disease or dysfunction or they may be totally oblivious.

They have wronged you because of their own personal history.

It is your right to candidly express yourself when you feel pain caused by another.

A healthy person who loves you will never break a connection because you express yourself openly and honestly.

They will allow you to feel safe to say anything,

Protected by compassion.

But there are people and connections that just may not be capable of meeting you on this level.

And you deserve to be met on a healthy level.

And when you are not,

It is okay to find those who will uplift you.

There is a great world out there of kind,

Nurturing souls that radiate at a higher energy.

And right now you may allow yourself to radiate at that energy.

Connect to the feeling of love.

To a passion that you may have.

To your favorite place on this planet.

To a pet.

Right now connect to that feeling that brings a tingling sensation to your spine.

This feeling makes you feel good all over.

It is a feeling and a connection that makes you feel a love for life.

This is the special place where you deserve to go.

You deserve to feel this every day.

And by returning to this,

Instead of the thoughts that come up and make you feel bad,

Or feel that you were not treated well,

Or that you cannot trust people,

Come here with me to this place where you radiate peace and kindness.

Because it feels good.

Because it allows you to live your own best life.

And to focus on the things that will bring you all that you desire.

Time is fleeting.

And yet time is fluid.

The past is but a memory in your mind and the future is but a working of your imagination.

But the present is precious.

And it is here to feel.

To live in.

To enjoy.

Without giving away any mental real estate to things that take you away from what is precious.

Right now.

So let's forgive.

I will be on your team for this act of forgiveness.

And fully support you in cutting any of the ribbons of pain that connect you to this person and to these memories.

You may visualize these ribbons connecting to places on your body that most react to the person you wish to forgive.

And you may see how they are tied around you.

And individually visualize that you are untying each ribbon.

You are disconnecting from the ill feelings.

Continuing as you untie the last one and the pain floats away.

It reads you to connect to what you really want.

You want to feel loved.

You want to feel strong and faithful.

You want to feel open to trust others and build bonds that elevate life.

You want to feel in control of your own life and your own journey.

And now that all the places of pain in your body are untied from this person,

They may begin to heal.

And I want you to visualize the things that you love most that may now move into the empty spaces created.

Whatever gives you joy,

Visualize five things right now.

Do you see these five things that bring you bliss?

That now have space to root within you because you have moved the dark energy.

They can be activities or healthy relationships with people who support you or dreams you have for yourself or places you would like to go or foods you like to savor.

See these five things and you may tie them to you in the places where the ribbons were set free.

You may connect to all that good and feel good.

These things deserve your attention.

They deserve your affection and will leave you feeling fulfilled.

You will not find fulfillment from the energy or decay or damage that comes with grudges and resentment.

And an apology without change is just a manipulation.

There is no room in your life for manipulation.

You may accept the apology,

But listen to your higher self that wants to radiate peace.

There is only room for love and for light.

This is your story and you deserve to have the best life.

It is possible to have a bond to someone that only exists in pain and anguish and this is not where you resonate.

When people arrive at your door,

When they bring you energy,

It should be clean and light.

It should leave you feeling better than before they arrived.

It should be everlasting and not fleeting.

So feel that energy.

Feel the good vibes that come when you refuse to connect with pain and dysfunction.

It does not mean you abandon people when they are in pain or that you should be abandoned.

It means that the exchange over a course of time will be balanced and supportive.

And sometimes trials with people may go on so long that pain becomes your safe place.

Perhaps you have known it so long that you cannot remember what it felt like to awaken without it,

But you can and you will,

Focusing on what really feels good.

It's there for you.

It always has been.

You just haven't looked into the right door.

It's been there all the time.

Feel it.

Allow yourself to be cloaked in a bath of white healing light.

Warming you,

You feel a lightness and warmth in your heart center.

To find healing and forgiveness,

There is a false path that feels like power.

When you blame the person and become the victim,

Becomes a war within your mind.

That they are wrong and you are right.

But this is a false power.

It does not serve you and it does not bring you to what you seek.

You seek love.

You seek attention and acknowledgement.

You seek peace.

You seek the expression of yourself that is felt denied by this relationship and the events surrounding it.

Instead,

You may take the higher path towards healing.

Towards a healing that will last throughout your life and set you free.

For accepting that everyone is doing the best that they can with the limitations they have.

And they may be limitations that you do not even see.

And only from a state of compassion and forgiveness can you move to places you long to go to.

And those wounds you feel within your body,

You may visualize them now.

Whether they are still gaping open or but fresh scars.

See them and see them healing and becoming smooth and painless again.

Your heart,

Your mind,

Your spirit,

Your entire body healing up in all the patches of pain that are no longer sore when you forgive.

And you may say these words.

I forgive you.

I let you go.

I release you.

I wish you well.

I wish you the healing that will bring you peace.

But this is not my job to do.

My job is to care for me first.

Because I matter.

My feelings are important.

And I set this free.

I am letting this go and I forgive.

And if the stirrings of pain arise again and if I cannot escape interacting with you,

I will continue to forgive.

For me.

Because we are all human and we are all evolving at different rates.

And whether unkindness be from malice or unintentional,

It is something I will pass over like a bump on the highway that leads me through open spaces of new discovery.

As I drive towards the sun as it disappears beyond the horizon.

I will keep driving and I will discover beauty I did not anticipate.

Because I forgive.

And I let this go.

Now take in a deep breath and exhale again.

Feeling how the weight in your chest is gone.

You realize that on the path through your life,

Every single interaction has been but an experience.

It is there to teach you a lesson.

And when you have learned this lesson,

You are free to move on and grow and come upon the next lesson.

And so as you forgive,

You may find yourself saying thank you.

Thank you for this lesson.

Always go back to that feeling of gratitude for having survived and for realizing how very strong you are.

And how grace feels.

The grace of forgiveness.

The grace of knowing that only hurt people hurt people.

And you wish to disengage from that pain that is no longer for you and never really has been.

Because you are light.

You are illuminated by the permanent glow that comes from forgiveness and from healing.

It feels good.

As you inhale and then exhale,

Coming back to this moment.

Forgiveness does not condone the act.

It does not justify it.

It is for you and always for you to understand that this pain is not for you.

You are not the cause and you are not entangled anymore.

You may inhale the word I and then exhale the word forgive.

And again see these words on the backs of your eyelids as you inhale I and then exhale the word forgive.

One last time with a feeling of peace and joy and enthusiasm for all the new things you are making room for when you move this energy.

Dry out your breath and inhale the word I and exhale the word forgive.

You may flutter open your eyes and come back to the room and feel the peace that now comes to you.

Notice how the room and the energy around you has changed.

You are free to listen to this anytime you desire to come back to the sensation of forgiveness.

Enjoy the beauty in being all of you today and the light that will glow in your heart as you say I forgive you.

Namaste.