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The Integrated Self
Dan Halpern
28. Forgiveness
SEP 2, 202630 MIN
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Description
Forgiveness is not something we do to let someone else off the hook, it's something we do for ourselves to allow more love into our lives. We can still maintain boundaries and discernment of what we're not okay with while we forgive, while we stop continuing to poison ourselves with the stuck energy of a grudge.
In this episode:
Preambles before we get to the point
A Course in Miracles
Forgiveness is a tool that transform poison into Light
A personal example I felt regret for and the need for forgiveness
Necessary and unnecessary suffering
Grudges create walls between ourself and life / love
Forgiveness as grace
The paradox of unconditional love and things that aren't okay
Resisting and accepting life
A guided practice to actualize and experience forgiveness
- Feel the effect in you of the thing you don't like
- The mind opens to a wider understanding
- Our pain around it sequences, digests, and releases
- Love comes in and through us
How a long, developmental view of life supports forgiveness

