A Different Take on Forgiveness

I know we all think we should be forgiving others for the wrongs that we believe they had done to us. We have been taught that in order to move on or passed what ever it was, we need to forgive. After all it is the noble thing to do.

Looking at forgiveness in a new way
One of the major principles that we are taught in LOA is that we are all personally responsible for everything that happens to us or around us. If this is true and I believe it is, then there is no need to ever feel you ever need to forgive anybody else for anything. The only person you need to forgive for what ever it is, is yourself.

Swallowing Personal Responsibility
This is a tough one to understand. A lot of the morals we have been taught will fight against this concept. How is it possible for the victim to be responsible for what horror they endured? Simply put, there are no victims. If it stands that we create our own existence, then we create our own existence. Good or bad. It can't be that we create the good and the not so good things but the truly bad things, no we don't do that.  I know this is tough, especially if you start to think about the truly evil things that happen in this world. But try at least reaching for an understanding of the personal responsibility concept while you read this post. It might just save all that bitterness from growing inside you in the first place and provide you some relief.

Forgiving Yourself
If you really are in control of your existence and you are, then you are the only one that needs to make adjustments and accept forgiveness. You need to reach a place where you understand that everything you experience adds to who you are. It adds to your growth, the growth of those around you and the growth of the universe. So therefore nothing that happens to us is wasted. Everything that happens adds to all that is.

Adjustments and Accepting Forgiveness
The exiting thing about this point is that if you are the only one in your world that needs to make adjustments or accept forgiveness (sometimes accepting forgiveness is harder than giving it) then you are the one in control and you are the one who can actually make it happen. Don't you feel powerful now.