Many times in your life you have experienced some pain or hurt by friends or loved ones. It is difficult to forgive someone who has hurt you especially if it is a family member or significant other. Forgiveness is important to your life and your well being.
You must understand that in forgiving someone else you free yourself. Forgiveness allows the resentment that is stored within you to dissolve. You must fully feel and acknowledge all that blocks you. Don't forgive someone because you think it is the right thing to do. Don't forgive someone just from words, but truly and honestly feel it deep down from the heart. When you forgive it should be real, honest and ready to let it go. Once you truly forgive, you will set yourself free and let go of the past and put it behind you.
When you hold anger in your mind, your unconscious does not know for whom that feeling is meant, it only knows that it is a container for resentment. To forgive is to let go and release your own mind from being caught in the cycle of going over and over the hurt. You are not forgiving for the good of the other person. You are forgiving for the good of yourself so that you can be free and move on. Forgiveness is a gift, a state of grace that benefits the giver as much as or more than the receiver. If you are willing to heal fully, you will need to forgive fully.
Forgiveness and letting go are steps on your road back to health and happiness. Without it you will never be free from your past. You will be held hostage to your past unless you are willing to release and grow beyond them. Only you can ultimately free yourself. No one can do this for you but you.
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