What is Radical Forgiveness?
Unlike the other forms of forgiveness, Radical Forgiveness is virtually instantaneous, easy to do and can be achieved, by more or less anyone, using some simple tools. It requires no special knowledge, no special skill or discipline and, best of all, depends on no guru. It is not so much something we do; rather it is a spiritual viewpoint that we are willing to take.
Radical Forgiveness occurs simply as a consequence of our opening up to the possibility that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes. If we could see the spiritual big picture (which we cannot), we would understand that the situation was Divinely guided and happened not TO us, but FOR us. It was meant to happen that way for the highest good of all concerned. Also our Higher Selves actually called forth the experience for our healing and our spiritual growth.
It is not a mind-altering technique or a moral stricture that one “should” forgive, but is experienced as a shift in consciousness, or a movement of energy both within ourselves and throughout the situation itself. Such elements within the situation itself shift and change. Such changes begin to look like miracles.
When we understand that our life is unfolding exactly as it should and that everything is divinely guided, we find peace – even in the most “unpleasant” of situations or memories. When we understand that our enemies really love us (at the soul level), our hearts open and we are released from the victim archetype.
Why Forgive?
Only a few years ago, no one was very interested in forgiveness. It was really quite unpopular, mainly because people felt that it was difficult, arduous and very time consuming. Now people realize that there are many benefits to forgiveness and are taking more interest in it. Fortunately, we now have a technology (Radical Forgiveness) which makes it easy, simple and quick. Here are some of the benefits.
Personal Benefits:
1. Better Health: Research shows that resentment and a general lack of forgiveness raises blood pressure, depletes immune function, makes you more easily depressed and causes enormous stress to the body. It also causes people to hold weight. For more, see Health Matters.
2. Cancer Prevention: It has been shown that cancer has its beginnings in unresolved grief or trauma approximately 5-7 years prior to the onset of the disease. Forgiveness can interrupt the energetic progress of the disease into the physical body. For more, see The Type C Connection, Health Matters.
3. More Energy: It takes an enormous amount of energy to hold on to repressed or suppressed feelings like anger, blame, resentment, disappointment, need for revenge, etc. When you forgive, you release an incredible amount of energy that then becomes available for creating the life you want.
4. Better Relationships: When we release the need to blame or forgive others we feel better inside, which makes us easier to be with. Our relationships improve automatically. Take the Relationship Quiz and see how you might be re-creating problems in every relationship you have or have had.
5. More Freedom: Forgiveness gives us freedom from the pain of the past, freedom from the weight of emotional baggage and the freedom to be who we truly are.
6. Empowerment: When we forgive we take back our power from those we had previously empowered to make us feel bad, realizing that it is our own choice to feel the way we want to feel. Then we are empowered to create the life we want.
7. Spiritual Growth: You simply cannot grow spiritually if your heart is polluted with resentment, envy, anger, jealousy, judgment, criticism or any other form of unforgiveness. You will always have a low vibration. This is taught (though largely ignored), in every religion. Forgiveness was the foundation of Jesus's teaching. Judaism's holy days, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur call for atonement. Buddhism calls for ceaseless empathy and compassion towards everyone - especially enemies. The Hindu religious text, the Bhagavad-Gita says, "If you want to see the brave, look for those who can love in return for hatred." In the Koran, the Angel Gabriel tells Mohammed to set aside vengeful anger.
Collective Benefits of Forgiveness:
- Releases the collective generational pain of humanity
in general - Heals old scores between races, ethnic and
religious groups - Transforms the energies of violence and abuse
- Reduces tension in the world
- Promotes openhearted politics
- Leads to the creation of world peace
Links
Website of Colin C. Tipping: www.radicalforgiveness.com