Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself and here is why. Learning to forgive was a huge turning point in my own life. Forgiving and letting go helped me create the life I really desired.

Practicing forgiveness is also essential to your health and overall wellbeing. Learning to forgive will make you a happier, stronger person who is able to have better relationships.

At the bottom of the post, I have a short guided meditation that a counselor friend of mine wrote and recorded for my readers.

October 2024 Update: When I originally wrote this back in 2016, I had been through my share of hurt and I was tired of it. I had been divorced a couple of years. My attempts at relationships had been dismal. I was mad a family member.

When I wrote this post eight years ago, I was at the beginning of my forgiveness journey. I consider this post and the ideas in it to be a turning point in my life.

I don’t even think about those hurts anymore. Even better, I don’t really even attract those kinds of people into my life.

I’ve seen my life grow and expand in beautiful ways.

This doesn’t mean I’m immune to getting my feelings hurt or that I don’t have knee jerk reactions sometimes.

But that’s all it is. I don’t dwell on or cause more of my own suffering by holding onto the hurt or thinking about how someone hurt me.

Here’s the thing. When we hold onto hurt and anger, we re-injure ourselves. Over and over.

Forgiveness doesn’t make you weak or more prone to bad things happening. Just the opposite it makes you stronger and more confident and gives you clarity. Forgiveness even has health benefits!

Forgiveness is a huge part of maintaining your health and beauty. To live your best life, it is important to process anger, hurt feelings, and disappointments.

Why You Need to Forgive

You don’t have to approve, condone, or accept unforgivable behavior. The benefits of forgiving are so that YOU can feel better as soon as possible.

FORGIVING is one of the most profound and beneficial things you can do for yourself. I believe that in forgiving we actually can free ourselves from the person or situation instead of feeling stuck.

Forgiving allows you to release emotions that can have a negative effect on your life, your relationships, and even your health.

As good as forgiving sounds in theory, it can sometimes feel like one of those things that is impossible to do.

What is Forgiveness?

I mean, exactly what is it? It’s not an action, nor can you just wish it to happen in an instant. Forgiving is a total pain in the ass. Kind of like giving up sugar…We know it’s good for us but is it even possible?

Unfortunately, forgiving isn’t always easy. Sometimes I love the feeling of righteous anger.

And wouldn’t forgiving somehow be letting the person I’m mad at off the hook? I’ve thought at times that I would never forgive someone—that they don’t deserve forgiveness.

And you know what? Maybe they didn’t.

That part of the equation simply does not matter. Forgiveness is something YOU do, for YOU. Period.

Sometimes it allows a relationship to grow and progress. Sometimes it allows you to let go of a relationship. That’s one of the most interesting aspects of forgiveness—it works in either situation.

Forgiveness and Relationships

I feel strongly that forgiveness is important whether that person remains in my life or not.

Forgiving someone does not mean that person has to stay in your life. And if you want them out of your life, forgiving actually helps with the process.

Because, guess what? When you hold on to your anger at a person, you hold them in your life. Yes, the act of holding onto that angry energy keeps them at some level active in your mind and in your life.

Even if you don’t see them, you may keep attracting people like them. Trust me, that is not what you want.

On the other side, forgiveness is essential to preserving family and real friendships.

None of us are perfect and we have all thoughtlessly hurt another. I have seen families and friendships torn apart over anger, hurt feelings, and an unwillingness to forgive.

I’m not talking about the horrible “unforgivable” things some people experience.

I’m talking about more mundane yet wounding things. We all know siblings that haven’t talked in years. We all know children who haven’t talked to their parents in years. Or parents who refuse to talk to their children.

Sometimes, removing yourself from someone’s life is what is needed.

Yet, I find it terribly sad and such a waste, when the anger is over something someone said or did that hurt but is something that could be potentially discussed and used as a basis to grow from.

The Health Benefits of Forgiveness

Forgiving is good for YOU! Chronic anger has detrimental health implications.

Staying actively angry for long periods of time can actually affect your heart, pain levels, and even blood pressure. Some studies say that forgiving can even extend your life!

Forgiving helps you attract and maintain better relationships. When you are in an unforgiving mode, you are not attracting your best relationships.

You might actually keep attracting poor relationships. Being able to forgive helps you cherish and preserve your good relationships.

Forgiving helps reduce stress and anxiety and helps to clear your mind of negative talk and emotions. This improves your mood and sense of well-being and allows happiness and contentment to be your primary emotions.

Thoughts on Forgiveness

Forgiving starts with the intention to forgive. You have to want to forgive.

Unlike, say fixing a leaking faucet, the way towards forgiveness is a little more intangible.

There are many things you can do to facilitate it but in general it’s more of an attitude and way of being as opposed to specific actions.

Forgiveness is a process and it has its own timeline. It can take time for the healing to take place. But with an intention (sometimes that is ALL you can do at first) to forgive you will reach that place.

Forgiveness doesn’t require the participation of the other person at all. This is by you for you.

Forgiveness doesn’t require an apology. In fact, the people you MOST need to forgive will most likely never offer you an apology.

Understand that even without forgiving, you may never get closure. With forgiving, you may never get closure either. You can get peace of mind though.

Even if the person you forgive never wants to talk about what happened—it doesn’t mean they haven’t thought about it. People have different tolerances for discussing situations that are painful or shameful.

How Do You Forgive?

Allow yourself to feel all your emotions: anger, disappointment, betrayal, hurt, and sadness about the person and situation. It’s important to own how you feel before you try to forgive.

Accept that no one is perfect. No one. Not even you. When we make mistakes, we give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. But when someone makes a mistake with us, we attribute bad intentions to them.

Acknowledge that you want to forgive. Even if forgiving feels like the LAST thing you want to do, voice your desire in your mind, on paper, or to a friend. Having this intention sets the healing of forgiveness in motion.

Explore your part in the situation. In what ways did you contribute to what happened? Sometimes we stay in a relationship too long and it ends in a messy way. Sometimes we have hurt the other person as well. It is empowering to look at our own responsibility in creating a situation.

Be curious about what you’ve learned from this situation or person. How did this painful situation help you grow?

Allow forgiveness to happen. There will be moments when the anger will be reactivated and you will feel like it’s just not going to happen. Let the anger come and go. Keep your intention to forgive in place and don’t get stuck in that angry place.

Take whatever actions nurture your forgiving self. Write, meditate, walk, listen to music, or create. If you have a wise friend who can let you vent without reinforcing an unforgiving stance, then go for it.

Find new activities or connections to take your mind off the situation. I use times like this to find new activities, plan a trip, start a new project reconnect with friends and family. Finding something to get excited about is a very effective way to transform the pain of being hurt into a something that adds value to your life.

Let this situation be a catalyst for growth and meaning in your life. Being hurt offers you a window into your own spirit and a chance to heal and become a stronger wiser person. While it may feel at times like it has broken you, it is doing the opposite. It is strengthening you and can ultimately be a gift.

Forgiveness is a Gift

It is a wonderful thing to realize that beyond the initial hurt feelings, you are stronger than than the petty things that come up in life.

Though they can feel huge at times—if you really think about it, most of them are not. By committing to forgiving, you commit to claiming your own power and the knowledge that another person cannot hurt the real you.

By forgiving, you become a stronger more resilient person. Choosing to forgive helps you be healthy and whole. Forgiving someone is not a gift you give them—it is the gift you give yourself.

Keep showing up my friends!

A Gift to Help You With Forgiveness

To help you with forgiving, here is a short, guided meditation on forgiveness. Listen to it as much as you need to help you process your painful situations.

Related Posts on Forgiveness 

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Once you’ve accepted that you have a relationship with a toxic person, the next step is to let it go. This post will help you get started on the process. Here’s how to free yourself from a toxic relationship.

One of the best things you can do for yourself is to let go of unhealthy relationships. Yet, that can be difficult to do for many reasons.

You probably cared for this person at one time. You’re no quitter! You might even think this person needs you to save them.

Unfortunately, toxic relationships rarely become healthy ones. Here is how to free yourself from a toxic relationship.

Getting free from a toxic relationship requires you to go through stages that are similar to the process of grief: shock, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Obviously this is not a fun process and it can take months or even years to work through this.

I’m a firm believer that knowledge is power and knowing someone is toxic is the first step. If you’re not sure, read this post, How to Tell if Someone is Toxic.

Stages of Accepting that a Relationship is Toxic

shock

It is shocking to realize that a person is toxic. This is probably when we should cut our losses.

But since most of us like to give people the benefit of the doubt, we tend to stay in toxic relationships way longer than we need to.

After tolerating bad behavior for a period of time, something will finally happen and you feel a sense of shock that this is even happening.

At some level, you sense the person has hurt you on purpose. Something happens and you get this sick feeling.

denial

It’s hard for your brain to accept that the person in your life is behaving this way to you on purpose. You come up with all kinds of reasons they are doing the things they are doing.

You don’t want it to be true and so you keep hoping that things will get better.

bargaining

You do all kinds of crazy things to keep the relationship. You beg other people to change and to quit hurting you.

You vow to yourself that you will be different. You might even start praying that the person will change and quit hurting you.

depression or anger

At some point, we turn our hurt and confusion on ourselves OR others. There must be something wrong with us that someone would treat us this way. Or we get mad about it. Finally we’ve had enough.

My experiences with toxic people left me feeling like life was hopeless. At this point, you might give up or you might get mad and decide to get out.

acceptance

Finally, you accept that the person you cared about is not being good to you and the relationship is toxic.

Blaming the toxic person is useless because they just don’t care.

You will not get the satisfaction of an apology or real changes. Eventually, YOU do realize you just won’t and finally accept this.

It might take months and it might take years to get to the acceptance stage.

I’ve known women who have spent years of their lives in toxic relationships hoping it will get better.  We hate to give up on anyone!

Why We Tolerate Toxic Relationships

We tolerate toxic relationships because we have often cared about that person at some point. Perhaps we were in love with them. We might be related to them.

It could be that we don’t even see them that often anymore and so it doesn’t seem important to let go of a relationship that isn’t a primary one anymore.

The Gift of Letting Go of a Toxic Relationship

Toxic relationships take up a lot of energy! Toxic people and relationships take up a lot of brain.

We want the other person to play nice and quit causing us angst. Truly we don’t understand what we did to warrant the hurtful things this person does.

It’s surprising how often people tolerate toxic people in their lives.

You know that person you complain about all the time and after a while people just don’t want to hear it any more. If they are so bad—why not get rid of them.

Or you feel ashamed of yourself because you are in this relationship.

If the relationship goes on long enough, you doubt yourself. You lose trust in yourself. Even worse you may become depressed.

Letting go of a toxic relationship is life-giving to yourself. You are finally putting yourself and your emotional and physical health first.

Yes, it seems simple but it often takes some time. One of the reasons it takes a while is that we have to actually accept that someone is toxic to us.

Not sure if someone IS toxic, than read this post, How to Tell if Someone is Toxic.

How to Free Yourself from a Toxic Relationship

If someone is truly toxic, it’s better to not have anything to do with them. You don’t have to have their agreement about this.

You don’t have to have anyone’s agreement. It is a hard decision to not only make but to enforce. It requires strength that you probably haven’t had up until this point.

The 3 Steps of Releasing a Toxic Person from your Life

Give Up Your Need for Action on the Part of the Toxic Person: Acceptance is the first step to releasing a toxic relationship. You have to ACCEPT that this person or relationship is bad for you. In addition, acceptance means completely giving up any idea that you can fix the toxic relationship.

It means you give up on getting any apology or that the toxic person has to acknowledge how they have hurt you. Finally, it means that you don’t need or want the person to have any consequences.

It doesn’t mean those things won’t happen but you give up your need for them to happen so that you can move on.

Give Yourself some Space: Next, stop initiating contact with them. Don’t call or text them. Let go of your part of keeping up the relationship. Sometimes this is enough and they will fade away.

It can be difficult if you still have strong feelings. But if you’ve gone through the five stages above, you might just be sick and tired of the pain and it’s easier to give yourself this space.

When they reach out to you, have other plans. Don’t answer the phone where it’s easier to get caught off guard. If they text, be civil and pleasant but definitely say “NO” to any requests to get together.

The reason to be pleasant and civil? They key is to put some space and time between you and the toxic person without creating a discussion or conflict. If you try to get some closure or express your disappointment or anger—you keep the relationship going longer.

By giving a toxic person insight into your true feelings, you give them power over you. They will use it to keep you in the relationship even longer.

Toxic people can be perverse that way. They make you feel like shit and they like it.

Eventually, with enough space and time between interactions, you will begin to regain your sense of self and peace and you will be ready to really let go.

Letting Go of the Toxic Relationship

I remember the day I decided to let all my toxic relationships go.

In the months before that day, I had put plenty of space between me and two toxic relationships. I was not initiating any contact and I wasn’t accepting any in-person contact.

It was actually a lull, as I hadn’t heard from either person for a few weeks. Perhaps, I never would have. But there was a thought in my head, that they might call. They might text. I still had to be on guard.

And on that day, I decided to simply block their phones from contacting mine. I want to say here, that these were not physically dangerous relationships. These were emotionally hurtful but in general neither person was trying to go out of their way to hunt me down and hurt me.

When I blocked their numbers, I knew that they most likely would never try to connect in other ways. Though one did attempt to connect on LinkedIn. I finally felt peace.

What Happened After

Within a few weeks of releasing these relationships, things changed for the better.

I met the man that would become my fiancée eventually. Then a few weeks after that, I was approached and recruited for a new job that I love. My blog began to take off.

Over the next year, life continued to get better and better. I became more confident and started trying new things. I made new friends and reconnected with other friends.

Saying no to toxic relationships was the first step in creating a life that I love.

I know that it’s not easy to do or even easy accept that it’s necessary. But I can say with certainty that it will be one of the most important things you can do.

I wish you all the best!

Love, Sara

Related Posts

How to Tell if Someone is Toxic

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If you are wondering how to forgive someone when you don’t feel like it, you’ve come to the right place! I want assure you that this is not about saying what someone did was right or okay or that it didn’t hurt you.

October 2024 Update: I wrote this post eight years ago and at that time another coach and I created a meditation to help with forgiving. It is at the bottom of the post and it is one of my favorite tools for forgiving.

Forgiveness has an important place in our lives as it allows us to let go and move on. Forgiveness is so we can feel better.

This will make you stronger and more confident, not make you weaker.

Why Forgiveness is Important to Me

When I was a teenager, I saw first hand how anger, resentment, and bitterness could literally destroy a person. I had a family member who couldn’t forgive or move on and it seemed to eat her alive until she died before the age of 60.

This made a huge impression on me and over the years, I saw how holding onto anger and resentment hurt the person who couldn’t forgive.

I also saw people who went through tough things and their ability to forgive helped them become stronger and more loving.

Forgiveness is not about granting forgiveness to another person so they feel better. It is 100% for you and by association for the people you love.

For now, all you need is a willingness to forgive. That’s about all you can do, to be willing. With the willingness and intention to forgive, something will happen.

One day, you will feel lighter and the pain will be less.

The Benefits of Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a topic that keeps coming up for me. It’s just not as easy as I sometimes make it sound! In fact, I’m starting to believe, that the more difficult the forgiving—the more important it is to engage in the process.

However, there are real physical and mental benefits to forgiving. It plays an essential part of your overall health and wellbeing.

Eating right and exercising is not enough! You have to forgive as well.

Forgiving has so many benefits! It has been shown to:

• Improve your health, including lowering blood pressure and other heart issues.
• Boost your immune system.
• Improve your mental health, including reducing the symptoms of anxiety and depression.
• Increase your self-esteem.
• Lower stress and reduce pain.
• Make you more attractive—anger, hurt, and resentment affect your looks in a profound and pronounced way.

I believe in the power of forgiveness so whole-heartedly, that I keep renewing my commitment to it. I am sure that this process is important to our growth and wellbeing.

We don’t forgive to help the other person—we forgive to help ourselves evolve and to promote health. Since it’s a process of growth, it doesn’t have to be instant, perfect, or even totally complete.

You start getting the benefit of forgiving in the moment you choose to forgive someone.

I want you to get the benefits, so I’m going to share how to forgive someone when you don’t feel like it. At the end of this post, I’m going to share one of my most effective tools for achieving forgiveness.

How to Forgive Someone When You Don’t Feel Like It

We tend to hold onto anger and resentment towards other people for a variety of reasons. It can feel impossible to imagine letting go of our hurt or anger over something someone did. This seems to be a human condition.

Even when we are open to it, it can seem impossible. That’s why I keep pushing that it is a process and that being open to being in the process is beneficial.

And if you are open, there will come a day, that you will realize that the charge you held about a person or situation will be gone or at least, greatly reduced.

Time + Commitment-to-Forgiving = Peace

Being at peace is good for your mental and physical health. Holding onto anger, resentment, and hurt is proven to be detrimental to your mental and physical health.

I’ll also share this. Over my years of working with women, being at peace is the most powerful feeling you can have. Not just to feel better but to live a life that feels like the life you are supposed to be living.

When you are chronically angry, resentful, or bitter, you are not creating a life you love. You can stay stuck for years and that does not feel good at all!

This is something you do for YOU. I want you to feel better and look better. Release that yucky energy and allow yourself to reap the benefits.

Is There a Quick Way to Forgive?

I do wish sometimes, that there was a magic button you could press, that would allow you to instantly forgive someone. However, like dieting and exercise, it takes time, commitment, and patience to get the results you want.

Instead, we tend to do other things to relieve the pain of needing to forgive. In place of working productively with our strong feelings; we look for ways to make them go away fast.

That’s when we start acting out or doing things to alleviate our pain.

These behaviors can include:

• Saying or writing hurtful things to the person that hurt us
• Using numbing behaviors such as alcohol, drugs, shopping, watching TV
• Engaging in self-destructive or dangerous actions
• Complaining to others about the person or situation
• Pretending nothing happened

I’d love to say I never do ANY of those things. But that would make me a liar. I’ve done them all. That’s how I KNOW that they don’t work long-term to help.

How Needing to Forgive Helps Us Grow

I have quite a few techniques in my bag to help me feel better. However, when I’ve been hurt, I feel just as bad as anyone. There are some hurts that just don’t go away quickly.

However, I have learned that we grow quite a bit ourselves through the process of forgiving. If we could just wipe out a hurt, then we would also wipe out the important lessons we learn about life and ourselves by forgiving.

That’s right. Being in the position of needing to forgive, while feeling like crap, is actually an important part of our growth as a person.

When we look at what happened with an open heart to the truth, we can also acknowledge our part in the situation. Taking responsibility for our part is powerful. It allows us to grow and become stronger.

It doesn’t mean we absolve the other person. It does mean that we can see different places where we could have chosen to act differently.

When I look at ANY situation where I have been hurt; I can clearly see places where I could have behaved differently. There are no exceptions in my life.

Since there is no rewind in life, I can’t go back in time and change anything. However, I have been given the gift of learning and adjusting my behavior in the future.

How to Forgive Someone When You Don’t Feel Like It

Forgiveness begins with the decision to forgive—even, and especially when you don’t feel like it. Just be open to maybe being willing to forgive at some point.

It’s okay and healthy to experience your feelings of anger and hurt. When you’re ready, you can take the next step and decide to forgive.

To make it just a little easier, I worked with an amazing counselor, Tina Hart to create a guided forgiveness meditation. I love this meditation so much that I have used it many times. It only takes about five minutes to do.

This meditation is not magic. Still, it is effective. It relaxes your body and mind and puts you in a receptive state of being able to forgive.

Tina takes you gently through this process and then guides you in handing over the whole thing to your higher power.

That’s my favorite part of the whole meditation!

That’s all. Decide to forgive, get into a state where you can forgive, and then hand the whole thing over to the place where it can happen.

Then be open to forgiveness.

Click below to listen to my favorite guided forgiveness meditation.

I wish each of you, all the peace, health, and well-being that comes from forgiveness. Remember, to not just forgive others but forgive yourself as well.

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November 2024 Update: I still consider forgiveness to be a super power. It is a sign of strength to forgive and move on.

Not because it’s good for the other person or people but because it is good for you. It doesn’t have to be immediate and you don’t have to push yourself. However, using this process will get you there and that will feel like freedom!

Is there a hurt that is getting in the way of your happiness? Spend five minutes a day listening to this relaxing guided meditation and learn the power of forgiveness in your own life.

Forgiveness = Happiness. And happiness IS the best the revenge.

Holding on to negative thoughts about someone does not hurt them. It just gives them power over you. The act of forgiveness is important for your well-being–not theirs!

Who hasn’t had the occasional revenge fantasy after being hurt by someone. We really really want that person to know they did something wrong and acknowledge that they hurt us.

I don’t even like the word revenge and would never seek to hurt another person. THAT never works well. But there is one kind of revenge that does work. Happiness is the best revenge.

However, to get to the happy part—you gotta get through the forgiveness part.

Getting over our anger and hurt may seem like it depends on the other person feeling sorry about what they did and making amends to us. Yet what if that doesn’t happen and we are just left with the hurt and anger and no apology, admittance of being sorry, or even that they care?

That makes forgiving tough!

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Often though, anger is allowed to go on so long that it begins to fester. I’ve seen people literally be eaten alive by their anger. Bitter unforgiving people are not pleasant to be around and people tend to avoid them, which makes them even more bitter.

Most of us, don’t fall into that category of allowing anger and bitterness to consume our lives. Yet, most of us do keep enough anger or resentment active enough in our energy, that it is throwing us off and keeping us from having our best lives. But there is another option—forgiveness and emotional freedom, which leads to happiness.

Finding Happiness Through Forgiveness

It might seem odd, but forgiveness is your remedy to a lot of the problems you have. Forgiveness truly is one of the most healing things you can do for yourself and can lead to a happier life.

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Forgiving takes intention, effort, and time but delivers solid benefits to your mood, health, and overall well-being.

Most people have no idea about the power of forgiveness. In fact, they often don’t know that they can forgive. Don’t we all have events or people in our lives, that we’ve sworn that “we can’t forgive.” I know I have. There have been times when I thought forgiveness was absolutely impossible.

In the past few years though, I had to learn to forgive to find peace, freedom, and even happiness. After my divorce, I found it hard to forgive. But by not forgiving, it made not only my life more difficult; it made the lives of my family more difficult. My decision to forgive has allowed my family to celebrate holidays and special occasions together and was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

Finding Emotional Freedom

This process has expanded my understanding of forgiveness quite a bit. In light of all the anger and bitterness going around, I wanted to explain why I believe forgiveness is a powerful remedy to many of our every day problems.

Forgiving equals power, control, and yes, even happiness. I don’t know of ANYTHING else you can do that gives you all the benefits of forgiveness. Yet, we often resist forgiving for many reasons. Understanding the reasons that you might struggle with forgiveness will help the process.

Why It’s So Hard to Forgive

We Don’t Want to Face Our Own Part in the Situation: Holding on to our anger against someone else, shields us from feeling our own shame about our part in the event or situation with another person.

We Want to Maintain Control or Power in a Situation: We hold on to our anger in an attempt to maintain control and power. Holding onto anger feels strong and righteous to some extent—we can in some moments feel more in control and powerful.

We don’t know how to forgive: Forgiveness sounds good in theory but most of us have not been taught and actual process. It’s kind of mysterious. What are the actions that you take to forgive?

We’ve been taught forgiveness is weakness: Many of us grew up in families that taught us to hang on to our anger as a way to protect ourselves. If you forgive, you were considered weak. If you held your grudge you were strong. If you held to your hurt and anger; you might be able to protect yourself from more people hurting you.

We think something is unforgivable: Bad things happen to people. And some things do seem unforgivable. Of course, stand up for yourself or pursue legal recourse when necessary. In the end though, you will want emotional freedom from the person or event. The only thing I can say is that the forgiveness is for YOU and not for the other person.

We don’t know that forgiveness is a decision: Forgiveness is a choice we make. It is an intention that we set. That is what sets forgiveness in motion. With people whom we have a relationship, the act of forgiving may involve conversations, apologies, and voicing forgiveness. But it always starts with the decision to forgive.

We don’t know we need to forgive: Sometimes the person or event is in the past or out of our lives. Since we know we aren’t going to get satisfaction or an apology, we simply don’t realize that we need to forgive. We have this pissed-off energy that pops up now and then but we aren’t aware that we need to forgive and let go.

Using Guided Meditation for Forgiveness

I know how hard it can be to let go and forgive. If you have a person or event in your life that you need to find forgiveness for, I have something to help.

Setting the intention to forgive is the most important part of the process. By continually affirming this intention, you will eventually find peace. At the very least, you’ll have more peace than you do now.

In partnership with a wonderful counselor, Tina Hart, I’ve created a guided meditation to help you begin the forgiveness process. You are going to love how she handles forgiveness in this meditation and her gentle approach as she helps you through the process

The world needs more forgiveness and less anger. This Forgiveness Meditation is a gift from Tina and I to anyone who needs a little help with the process. Please enjoy and share this link!

It’s VERY relaxing, so DO NOT listening to it while driving! Sit in a chair or lay down. You don’t even need headphones. Just listen and let it happen.

Forgive, forgive, forgive. It is the secret ingredient to a happy life. Happiness is the best revenge!

Guided Forgiveness Meditation for Emotional Freedom

And please visit Tina’s website. She provides life coaching for adults and students; kindergarten through college, who have ADHD or suspect they have an unfocused style and wish to increase their efficiency in work and school.

Here are some of my other posts related to forgiving and letting go.

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