Wake Up Call! – Forgiveness & Freedom
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FORGIVENESS & FREEDOM
Forgiveness is a learned path of freedom.
I was at a large public event when someone greeted me like a long lost friend as they tried to hug me. I had recently ended our friendship after a fraught two years in which she had manipulated truth and maligned me at every opportunity. I was stunned by the dissonance of her greeting.
In an instant I had to choose how to respond.
I stepped back holding my hands up and said “I wish you well.” In the preceding weeks I had been practicing detaching from her and our friendship by offering it to the Universe. As I practiced detaching each day my heartfelt desire for her well-being became authentic.
The result was a reminder that my own path to forgiving this person was a process to be worked through. I knew that nursing an open wound was not a healthy choice. Detachment was a first step toward forgiveness. I could not be responsible for her choices or allow myself to be trapped by them. Forgiveness was necessary to my own freedom and well-being.
Call-to-Action:
In practicing forgiveness:
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Choose authenticity over clichéd solutions
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Practice detachment from the person
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Allow yourself to authentically desire their well-being no matter their toxicity
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Be awake to the freedom that emerges when you forgive
Notice how each act of forgiving another is a learning that renews your place in the world.
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©2013 Robert V. Taylor
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