How Forgiveness Leads To Light, Love, And A Joyful Life

Do you know forgiveness is essential for your well-being and peace of mind? You may find it difficult to forgive when realising the trauma, heartache, and time wasted in dealing with such an event. Forgiveness has many benefits and can change the world. If you don’t forgive others, your mind will fill with grudges which can cause many problems.

What is Forgiveness?

Forgiveness is the kindest and the maximum important thing you may do for yourself for you to declare returned your peace of thoughts.

• Do you forgive when someone hurt you with words or deeds?
• Do you keep indignant with that individual for the long term?
• Do you meet, forgive that person, and get rid of the anger and strain from your thoughts for a peaceful existence?

If not, then you live in resentment, grudge, and hate. That will fill your mind with anger and bad thoughts, just like you inject poison into your machine.

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Remember, you forgive a person else for you.

Benefits of forgiveness

• Forgiveness is very important for good mental health.
• Forgiveness can help repair a damaged relationship.
• Help to let go of deeply held negative feelings.
• Brings the forgiver peace of mind and frees him or her from corrosive anger.
• Empowers to recognize the pain you suffered without letting that pain define you.
• Help to heal the wound in your mind and move on with your life.

Forgiveness is to present without reservation.

Some people throughout their lives struggle with a pattern that haunts them. You must be smart enough not to let such events cross your path again.

It is also good to push the delete button on friendships with such people. But this is not always possible because you cannot turn some people out of your life.

Self-forgiveness is also important. There is no point beating yourselves up for being taken for a bunny.

You must learn life lessons and move forward. Since you cannot look at yourselves in a detached manner to understand your issues, self-forgiveness is hard. You may seek external help as does forgiving others.

A few Bible quotes about forgiveness

The Bible is full of messages about forgiveness. Some selected verses are below.

“For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins,” Matthew 6:14–15

“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First, go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23–24 

The above two verses remind you to think about your daily prayer and attending worship places. How many times you have done worship with anger or revenge against others in your mind? The verses clearly say that the almighty will not accept your offering with a grudge in your mind. Do you think your prayers coming out from an angry mind will be heard?

“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also.” Luke 6:27–29

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” Luke 6:37

Many people judge others without knowing the truth. In the present world, social media is famous for judging others and spreading baseless comments. Your judgment or wrong comment can create a lot of problems for innocent people. Never judge a person without knowing the truth.

“Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.” Matthew 18:21–22

A way to Forgive whilst you couldn’t forget about

Many human beings have this huge query earlier than them. It isn’t always smooth to forget beyond. A weak mind does not permit forgetting incidents or words that wounded them.

The incorrect use of the tongue can hurt the mind of the listener in a terrible way. Bad words will vibrate in the thoughts for a long period and cause intellectual stress. If you experience such a situation, you ought to locate methods to address stress.

A person with robust thinking can forget bad incidents from others. Learn to make your mind strong, calm and peaceful. 

How to forgive, when you can’t forget?

Three types of forgiveness

In our lifestyles, we stumble upon activities we hurt someone or someone hurt us mentally or physically. That is a part of our life in this world. Some people are capable of overlooking the past and forgiving the individual. But others aren’t capable of forgetting and forgiving even when the other person has furnished a sincere apology.

This is a video of Prager college course with the aid of UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Marmer. He shares the 3 forms of forgiveness – exoneration, forbearance, and launch. He explains that anybody who desires to mend significant relationships ought to first realise forgiveness.

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Forgiveness in married life

In the present world, many divorces are happening. The couples do not even think about the future of their children. Most divorces are because of an ego problem that doesn’t allow the mind to forgive silly matters. Forgiveness is an important aspect of married life. Forgiveness is important for a good relationship. When two individuals can forgive each other it results in a long happy married life.

Some couple seeks divorce because of deficiencies of the spouse. True love never minds deficiencies, but they ignore deficiencies and live happily.

Do you think forgiving others is a kind of surrender? Not at all. Remember, all surrender is not a defeat, but spreading happiness.

How To Forgive Someone Who Has Hurt You: In 15 Steps

I found a very good article about forgiveness written by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. He is explaining 15 steps to forgive someone who has hurt you. I am giving a few lines here for your ready reference.

“Forgiving others is essential for spiritual growth. Your experience of someone who has hurt you, while painful, is now nothing more than a thought or feeling that you carry around. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will disempower you if you continue to let these thoughts occupy space in your head. If you could release them, you would know more peace.” Source:  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Read the full article.

Forgiveness helps you to find true happiness.

Conclusion

Remember, forgetting and forgiving is a better options than being resentful. You have the choice to rot in the past or forget and move on. Not to forget because is exhausting because it keeps coming over and over again.

If you don’t forgive and keep that anger that will affect your mind and physical health due to the strain and strain of the thoughts. If you can’t meet that person, you can forgive that person in meditation and prayer with closed eyes.

• What is your experience with forgiveness?
• What do you think of self-forgiveness?
• Any advice for those who need to forgive?

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Mathukutty P. V.

Mathukutty P. V. is the founder of Simply Life Tips. He is a Blogger, Content Writer, Influencer, and YouTuber. He is passionate about learning new skills. He is the Director of PokketCFO.

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