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Our Divine Download for January 10, 2024 is Forgiveness from The Butterfly Oracle. Forgiveness. It's everyone's favorite word and concept! (Insert audible eye rolls here!) Forgiveness isn't easy and we often get it kinda wrong because we believe that it is about the other person, aka whom we need to forgive. Nope. Forgiveness is about us. Forgiveness determines whether we choose to carry the emotional heaviness and burden of the incorrect or harsh actions of others around with us, effectively taking responsibility for them. Why in the hell would be *choose* to do that when we don't have to?! Forgiveness doesn't mean that we are saying that what happened or what someone did to us is okay. Not at all. Forgiveness does not mean that we are giving the other person or people a green light to rinse and repeat the offensive behavior. But rather forgiveness says "I acknowledge what happened. I accept it. (Even if I do not like it or would not choose it.) And I don't choose to take responsibility for it any longer." It puts the responsibility for the offense or choice squarely back where it belongs: on the shoulders of the offender. It frees us of the burden of non-forgiveness. It frees up space for us to further define what we do and do not want in our lives and what we will and will not tolerate from others and in situations. The other thing about forgiveness is that we have to extend compassion and forgiveness to ourselves before we are fully able to offer it to others. So what do you need to forgive yourself for? Where do you need to let yourself off the hook? Where do you need to accept and embrace your humanity and the fact that we are here to learn and we do so through the process of making mistakes? Lean into that. Breathe into it. And let it all go. There's just no point in holding onto it any longer. It doesn't change anything. It simply robs you of your peace and we just can't have that.
When we have practiced forgiveness with others, yet still feel an emotional charge to their actions, it could be that we need an Energetic Cord Cutting in order to release the negative cords of attachment that we have to that person (or those people). Schedule Your Energetic Cord Cutting TODAY: Book Your Session HERE!
