James McQuitty

FORGIVENESS
By James McQuitty 2009

Introduction
Spirit guides encourage us to develop a forgiving nature. By so doing we release the negative energies that can be generated when we hold emotional states such as anger and hatred within.
If we ignore their advice and hold such feelings within, this can cause disharmony within our emotional and mental energy fields (or aura). While the knock-on effect of such disharmonious thought patterns can also damage us at a physical level of being, for the physical so often is an expression of how we think. Such a state can also hinder spiritual progression here upon the earthplane and in the spirit realms.
It obviously isn’t an easy lesson for those who have been subjected to any major trauma in life, such as cruelty and abuse, or someone who has a loved one prematurely taken from them by an act of murder or drunk driving, to practise forgiveness.
However, the ‘bottom line’ is that nobody truly ‘dies.’ Nobody ever has or ever will! Every seeming ‘victim’ is released to transcend to a higher and far superior state of being; to a level that is befitting their personal level of progression. One would be well advised to contemplate the fact that all suffering: physical, emotional or mental, is transient, a blip in time to the eternal spirit.
Intellectual knowledge of spirit teachings is of little value to anyone until they can begin to incorporate the spiritual realities within their nature.

Wisdom is not recognising truth, it is living by it.

Moving Forward
How can people put the ‘worst’ experiences behind them?
One way that may help is if they can effectively ‘become’ the observer, by shifting their focus out of the experience so that their perceptions of it are altered. By isolating negative experiences within the mind into a ‘compartment’ called a previous lifetime (all that has been experienced before the present moment is effectively a past lifetime). To literally release it from the here and now of conscious thought; to store it as a memory in a compartment that you have no need to open, in the same way you could reflect upon what happened in a horror film you once observed. In this way it may become a reflection of its former self.

Remember no one knows what they may have done in past lifetimes; would you wish to be judged now for what you did during a previous incarnation? No one ‘escapes’ the consequences of natural law. However, for our own sake, we must try not to judge, and whenever possible, to forgive.

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