Best forgiveness practices

Good Morning!

What are your best practices for forgiveness?

A couple of weeks ago in the Practicing Forgiveness group, we identified our best strategies for practicing forgiveness. We were answering the question, "When you find yourself in a situation which calls for forgiveness, what are some of the things you do?"

I thought you might find the responses helpful.

For some of us, it’s about remembering or changing our thinking
• Repeat an affirmation, “I trust that these circumstances are leading to my wholeness”
• Remember, “I could see peace instead of this”
• Remember, “Seek not to change the person. Just change your mind about the person.”
• When I think someone should change, I think about how I could change my thoughts
• Remember, “Everything is either an act of love or a call for love. And I respond with love.”
• Remember, “I have projected this for my healing.”
• Remember, “Love lets go of everything that is unlike itself.”
• Remember, “Jesus would not have a problem with this person, and so why do I?”
• When judging someone, I’ll suddenly realize I should send them love instead
• When I get frustrated, I ask myself who is being harmed by my frustration
• Give the forgiveness blessing from Your Immortal Reality: “You are spirit, whole and innocent. All is forgiven and released.”
• Repeat the forgiveness thought process from Disappearance of the Universe: “You are not really there. If I thing you are guilty and the cause of the problem, and if I made you up, then the imagined guilt and sin must be in me. But since the separation from God never occurred, then I forgive 'both' of us for what we haven't done. Now there is only innocence and I join with the Holy Spirit in peace.”

For others it is about listening, reading, or writing
• While whining about what someone “did to me”, I’ll hear a small voice say the truth, “Did they really?”
• Wait patiently for guidance
• Read, especially A Course in Miracles
• Read spiritual literature
• Journal in the Voice of the Holy Spirit talking to me
• Write a poem
• Write what I don’t like, and own it

And still with others, it’s time for action!
• Help someone in need
• Get listened to
• When I want someone to go away, I smile and truly listen to them
• Pray, talk to God
• Ask, "What should I do?"
• Just release and affirm self-love and acceptance
• Breathe and go into “Don’t know”
• Draw an altar and write an issue on it
• Trust, have faith
I hope you may find one or more strategies to add to your list of best practices for practicing forgiveness as a daily way of life!

In Joy,
Michael