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There is no lasting peace and prosperity without forgiveness. I have got ten difficult questions to ask you.
The first one, have you not spoken to a friend or family member? I mean a real conversation in a very long time because of unresolved stuff?
Do you feel burdened as results of all hurts and memories?
Have you been violated by someone you trust?
Do you feel numb or indifferent because of fear?
Are you super sensitive?
Are you having difficulty with intimate relationships?
Do cry often without knowing why?
Have you been raped or sexually abused?
Are you paralyzed or do you feel paralyzed by hurt, by pain and memories from the past?
Here is the 10th one and probably the biggest one. Have you been trying again and again to find peace and prosperity?
You experience of success, you get there. Maybe you stay there for a day, a week, a month even. But you keep being called back into nagging doubt you know the spear in just a state of unconscious worry, is that what happening? Where you try, you achieve, if you fall again you try again, again and again a cycle of trying, is that been happening?
Well, I am able to answer each one of those question with a yes at some point in my life, at one point to another and at some point I perhaps would have answer all the 10 with a yes.
I am the survivor of sexual abused, sexual childhood abused of betrayal by love ones of date work. For decades, I walked around with a sense of emptiness, of being incomplete not whole, being filled with a spear, anger, doubt, fear, lots and lots of negative baggage.
I had so much to release and so many love ones to forgive, so many people to forgiver. Love ones to forgive who I have to continue having relationships with. These things will get stirred up and just wear its ugly head at this slightest publication. Sometimes it seemed to me for no reason at all. And so I walked with this and I walked with this and then a decade ago about a decade ago, I found the courage to just face it, to just go through it, deal with it.
No side stepping off the drama, no trying to hide the hurt feeling and edit it or make a judgment about being good or bad, just sit with it, own it as mine, claim my story for what it is, and feel the pain. And I literally gave myself a commission with the help of some therapy. I gave myself commission to sit comfortably, as comfortably as I could with being a person in pain. I stop getting mad at myself when I felt it and I just decided I was going to feel it.
I put a time limit on it but I decided I was going to feel it. But what was really important that you accept, you acknowledge whatever it is that has happen and the pain, the consequences of it, it is really important that you acknowledge.
Another sounds easy, it sounds a lot easier than it was but it is really important. It is really important to give you this insight immediately because wherever you might be right now, this could actually lead to some of releasing of the burden. Because so much of the burden as survivors of many different things in life, of many different violations, is some amount of guilt about feeling what feeling what we feel, and that adds to the burden.
So acknowledge it, accept it. It is the key to the beginning of healing and certainly the key to forgiveness.
There is no absolutely no lasting peace and prosperity without forgiveness which starts with acknowledging where you are. And I think that you know. You know that forgiveness is the answer to whatever it is that might be ailing you right now. It is the answer to being unproductive or under performing.
If the answer to why you might feel weighted down, why you might be feeling angry, why you might be feeling a sense of sadness or ongoing moodiness, procrastination, why you are super sensitive, not trusting anyone, why you might be feeling depress, why you might be feeling addicted or pull to compel to do certain things.
I think you know that the answer to all of those life situations, the answer is forgiveness.
I did not get this really fundamental point for a very long time and I want to help you to get this fundamental point much sooner than I did.
There is no lasting peace or prosperity without forgiveness.
