Self Forgiveness

A Guided Mindfulness practice that leads into Positive Affirmations of Self Forgiveness. This meditation is aimed at supporting you in Letting Go of what no longer Serves You in order to support your journey towards greater self-love. Let-Go & Enjoy.

Transcript

Welcome to today's mindfulness practice.

Today's exercise is on self forgiveness.

It will be quite deep,

So remembering to be extra gentle with yourself in today's practice.

Finding yourself a comfortable seated position or lying down.

Making any final adjustments.

Getting yourself as comfortable as possible.

And as you close down your eyes or soften your gaze,

Taking a moment to acknowledge yourself for showing up for today's practice.

Let's begin by listening to the sounds that are furthest away.

See if you can stretch your listening and stretch your awareness.

You may hope to ask yourself what are the sounds that are furthest away that you can hear.

Ultimately allowing these sounds to behave as sonar.

Performing your presence in the present moment.

Helping you geolocate yourself in the here and the now.

And from here focusing your listening and your awareness to the sounds in your space.

Gentle sound of the music,

Sound of my voice.

Any sounds occurring in your space.

As you learn to focus your awareness.

So if you can take that another step deeper and focus your awareness to your immediate space.

Your personal space.

As you go from listening to the sounds to listening to the sensations of the body and its breathing.

See if you can feel the breath coming in and out through the rise and the fall of the body.

Breathing in.

And breathing out.

Breathing in.

And breathing out.

As you continue to breathe and remembering to be extra gentle with yourself.

Start to bring to mind yourself as a child.

See if you can bring an image of this younger version of yourself to mind.

It may be easier for you to practice forgiveness of yourself as a child or a baby.

This may be a helpful place to start.

As you imagine or see yourself as a child or a baby.

Begin to offer yourself phrases of forgiveness.

Something such as I forgive you.

Or I forgive you as much as I can.

Or may I forgive you.

Even if you don't quite feel forgiveness try to repeat the phrases anyway.

Knowing that the intention to forgive is perfectly sufficient.

As you continue to imagine yourself and repeating the phrases in your own time.

May I forgive you.

I forgive you as much as I can.

I forgive you.

You may be noticing that the mind is drifting into the story of how much pain there is or you have caused yourself.

And if the mind is wondering simply come back to the phrases.

I forgive you.

I forgive you as much as I can.

I forgive you.

Gently allowing this image of yourself as a child to slowly drift away.

See if now you can picture yourself as you are today.

You might even imagine yourself seated here lying now.

See if you can tap into your intention to forgive yourself.

Or any self perceived shortcomings.

Even if you do not forgive yourself right now you can cultivate the intention to forgive yourself.

Begin by offering yourself the same forgiveness phrases as you did to the younger version of yourself.

You may already have a phrase that you wish to repeat.

You may repeat.

I forgive you.

I forgive you as much as I can.

May I forgive you.

Repeat these phrases to yourself over and over in your own time.

It is okay if you don't feel forgiving.

Sometimes it takes time for forgiveness to sink in.

As you see yourself kindly repeating to yourself the phrases.

I forgive you.

May I forgive you.

I forgive you as much as I can.

I forgive you.

I forgive you.

I forgive you.

I forgive you.

I forgive you as much as I can.

May I forgive you.

Throughout your day you can come back to these phrases whenever you need them.

Perhaps whenever you notice any negative self talk or resentment towards yourself arising you can repeat these phrases in your mind.

The practice of forgiveness,

Although not necessarily easy,

Can be extremely profound.

Studies show again and again that athletes sprinting up a hill having undergone a forgiveness exercise such as this one prior to sprinting up the hill can actually race up the hill faster and quicker.

They have energetically let go of what weighs them down through forgiveness.

The same test has been conducted with basketballers and their vertical jumps.

They are tested for their vertical jump and after having undergone their forgiveness exercise their vertical jump increases.

As they give themselves permission to let go and forgive themselves they are freer to jump higher.

Returning to your breath as you breathe in and breathe out.

Breathing in and breathing out.

Gently bringing some movement back into your fingers,

Into your toes.

Gently wakening the body,

Maybe even inviting a light stretch.

And here taking a moment to acknowledge yourself for showing up for today's practice.

As you gently start to open your eyes and return to the day,

Energized and revitalized.

Gently bringing some movement back into your fingers,

Into your toes.

Gently bringing some movement back into your fingers,

Into your toes.

Thank you for watching!

Reviews

Thank you for this meditation. It helped me out a lot🙏🏿

This is the best self forgiveness meditation that I’ve found! Many thanks!

Very nice self forgiveness meditation.

I loved this meditation, voice is so soothing and this has come at the best time. What studies were you referencing about athletes sprinting and basketball players jumping?

This session was absolutely incredible! Thank you so much!

The holidays bring up so much sadness and regret. I appreciated the invitation to forgive myself. Thank you.

This was so helpful, thank you so much.

Very profound. Thank you dear soul for the clarity, right mindedness and compassion you bring.

Exactly what I needed. Thank you.

wow that was amazing!! I had a breakthrough & bawled pretty much through the 1st part. I looked at my little self & wondered how I could ever be mad or disappointed in her. it was very cleansing & I feel so much freer. thank you, thank you, thank you!! phenomenal meditation ❤

fantastic! thank you 🙏❤️

Thank you for such a wonderful forgiveness exercise. a humble request to reduce volume of background sounds/music and amplify your voice. Loved your healing voice though. :) gratitude for such a beautiful meditation

Thank you - I feel much lighter now :)

Music was beautiful and added a lot to it. Nicely guided meditation.

I go really far with your guidance. Blissful meditation on forgiveness. I have been bathed in love. Thank you.

Wow that is so powerful, I was so deeply in meditation, and looking at myself, I done it twice. Thank you, I really needed this 🙏

I needed this direction. I've been feeling somewhat lost on what to meditate on. Thank you.

Your voice is very soft, deep and comforting. The meditation is very effective. For those of us who are sound sensitive, it actually causes anxiety when having to listen to competing sounds. I struggled to hear your voice through out the recording. I could hear your voice, but the background music was always in the foreground. 🙏

Lovely AND affective, yet again. Thank you. Many Blessings to you. 💜✨💜

Thankyou. One I will definately come back to.