03 Embracing Forgiveness

When I understand we are all actors in this great drama of life, I can accept each actor’s part and I realize everything is for a reason… Anthony Strano clarifies the steps to experience release from past hurts and feelings of animosity towards the self and others. Using meditation commentaries to guide, he allows us to recognize bitter feelings, aches of blame, and wounds of resentment and how to gently heal them by coming back to the awareness of my original goodness and by developing the capacity to accept, forgive, forget, and learn.

Transcript

I become quiet,

Reflecting slowly on how to release myself from the bitter feelings against someone,

Against myself,

Against life.

I become quiet,

I slow down my thoughts,

My emotions and decide to live in the now,

To say yes to the new opportunities that each day offers.

As I gently concentrate,

As I become more peaceful,

I decide to finish my complaints about the past,

About incidents,

About people that wounded me.

I decide to release myself from guilt and regret.

I choose to see and remove my blindness.

I choose to remove my ache and heal the wound.

In silence,

In peace,

In self-respect,

In the consciousness of my original goodness,

I let go of all blame.

In humility,

I do not accuse anyone for my pain,

For my problem,

For my sorrow,

I stop accusing.

Now,

I have learned about taking responsibility to create my own happiness,

My own freedom,

Especially my own well-being.

I realize it doesn't depend on anyone else.

In confidence,

With a deep feeling of love,

Of kindness,

I embrace forgiveness.

And as I give these feelings,

These good feelings,

To others and to myself,

I truly feel liberated.

I feel at peace with myself.

I feel healed.

And I do ask,

Why hold on?

Why this anger?

Why this blame?

I keep giving to myself love,

Trust,

Hope,

And especially a new opportunity to live more peacefully,

More positively,

With courage.

I embrace what I resented.

I embrace what I had misunderstood.

I embrace the injustice and truly feel released from these twisted feelings in my heart,

Released from the heaviness in my mind.

I have learned to say,

It doesn't matter,

Let go,

I accept,

I transform my feelings.

And in this embrace of acceptance,

I learn,

I forgive,

I forget.

And now,

I move on,

I move on.

And through this embrace of forgiveness,

I become whole.

I feel reconciled to myself and to the other.

I feel understood by the universe,

By God,

And especially by my own inner self.

I am fully released and my being is serene and restored.

My mind and my heart are now well.

I understand this drama of life and accept the parts of the actors and realize that everything is for a reason.

And in this,

I find the capacity to accept and to learn.

This embrace of forgiveness makes me whole,

Makes me peaceful,

Makes me tolerant,

Makes me free,

Completely free.