Hello,
This is Barry Price and welcome to day 6 of our 21 Day Soulmate Love Meditation Series.
Today we're going to be continuing to open ourselves to the type of love that we really deserve.
We're going to do this by walking down the path of forgiveness and gratitude.
I had a client who came to me with her heart wounded and closed because the man who she loved,
The man who she'd married had very tragically taken his own life.
And in her trying to move on and process this,
There was a lot of heaviness.
There was a lot of anger,
A lot of doubt,
A lot of questioning what was the reason for this.
A lot of lack of being able to accept why God would allow this.
Why would he do this?
Was there anything I could have done?
And she was very trapped in a very difficult place.
And as we worked,
We realized that she was not going to be able to allow love until she was able to forgive her husband for what happened,
Forgive God for what happened,
And forgive herself of any blame or any self-doubt.
This is something we carry with us.
Each resentment we carry is like a rock in a bag that we carry.
And the more resentments or even wounds or stories we have about those who have done us wrong,
We carry them as a weight on our heart that doesn't allow it to be light.
Whether it's being unable to forgive an ex or being unable to forgive ourselves or kicking ourselves for why did I make that mistake?
I should have known better than to date this kind of guy or I did it again and being mad at ourselves or whomever we're not forgiving,
Whether it's someone we've been with as a lover or one of our parents.
At the core of so many of our blocks is a lack of forgiveness.
And when there are blocks,
Then there is no flow and love cannot reach us.
So let's clear this logjam in the river of love so that it can flow and we can receive its nourishing waters again.
Forgiveness doesn't have to come all at once and forgiveness does not mean that whatever happened was okay.
It is not permission nor is it an excuse for anything that occurred.
Forgiveness is simply letting go of holding on to our emotional reaction to it.
Letting go of the angst,
The depression,
The anger,
The hurt,
The story we may have about I will never let it happen that way again and being upset as we say it as opposed to feeling certain and serene and simply knowing of course that won't happen to me again.
So let's move into a forgiveness and gratitude meditation today to help us lift some of the heaviness of those experiences off of our heart so that it can breathe again,
So that flow can enter it,
So that flow can enter us.
Find a comfortable position where you can sit or lay down and close your eyes.
Begin to invite openness and breath into your body now.
Breathe a little more deeply than you may usually.
As you do,
Feel yourself opening.
Feel yourself opening and you can let your mind wander over some wound or hurt or upset or some wrong that you feel was done.
Something that you're unhappy about,
Something maybe that you're not okay with in your life,
Something that you're resentful or upset or very sad about.
And underneath it,
We're going to just sift and sift and see if we can find who and what needs to be forgiven in order to remove the jam,
Remove the dam and let the water flow again.
So breathe deeply.
And as you breathe,
The mantra is,
Who must I forgive?
Who must I forgive?
Who must I forgive?
Drop into the silence as you just repeat that in your mind and let your mind do whatever it does,
But continue to bring it back to the mantra and I'll let you know when we can move out of it.
Who must I forgive to move forward in love now?
Who must I forgive to open my heart again?
Who must I forgive to feel safe and light?
As you come up out of this deep knowing that you're connecting with,
My mind goes to the story of Nelson Mandela in prison and how he was being treated horrendously,
Being denied freedom and being abused by the guards,
Being denied basic human rights,
Food,
Being treated shockingly.
And in his anger of not wanting to be there,
Of it being unfair that he was imprisoned even as he stood for equality,
He asked himself a different question and said,
How might it be meant to be that I'm here?
How might it be that this is where I'm supposed to be?
And it occurred to him as he kept asking that question that perhaps by being there,
That's where he needed to be for his cause.
So what could he do there from prison?
And it inspired him to realize that it was the perfect situation.
He was meant to be there and he began to write and he became an icon and a beacon for a movement that changed a country and touched the world and inspired people to believe in freedom and equality.
But it began with him seeing a perfection and a gratitude in something that was difficult for him to forgive.
I'm imprisoned,
I'm here,
How can I show gratitude now and say I'm grateful that this provides me an opportunity too.
So now as you come out of this meditation today with this awareness of who you must forgive,
What you must forgive,
What is perfect in this situation for you?
Why is it the perfect thing to have happened?
Why is there gratitude and what are you grateful for that's coming out of this that will move you forward now?
Carry that gratitude,
That idea and action into your life and into love.
Much love and blessings.
