7 Steps To Peace By Forgiving Another [Exercise]

How to forgive -7 Steps to Peace is a guided exercise through the seven steps of forgiveness based on ACIM (A Course in Miracles) which are explained in another audio here. When completed this how to forgive exercise leads to inner peace in connection with anyone you are experiencing difficulties with. The steps begin fairly easily but become more challenging. It is up to you how far you progress through the seven steps of forgiveness which teach you how to forgive someone.

Transcript

Welcome. Today I want to take you through a guided journey. This is the Seven Steps to Peace. It's a progressive forgiveness exercise where you choose someone where you're losing your peace at the moment. They can be alive or dead, Someone you know personally or it could be someone on the television. So I'm perhaps a politician you love to hate. Anyone will do and in this exercise we'll go through seven steps. The steps start off relatively easy and then become more challenging as you proceed with them. But it's up to you how far you want to go with them. The more you can sincerely complete, The more peaceful you will find it. I've explained this exercise on another video and the link to that video is below. So what you need to do now is make sure you're in a quiet and uninterrupted space. You could be sitting down or reclining back. Better not to lie down as you could go off to sleep. So just take a moment to get relaxed and just close your eyes. Just take a moment to listen to the sounds around you. Become aware of the chair, Bed, Floor that you're sitting on. There's pressure against your body. Now take a moment to invite help into the exercise in whatever way you imagine the help. Guide, Spirit, An angel, Whatever fits in with your belief system. But that help is very real and as this is a free will planet you need to invite them to be present with you now. This is a silent prayer of welcome. It helps you can imagine them as a light shining down upon you, A hand you hold, Or a sense of presence or warmth that wraps itself around you. This presence has absolutely no judgment of you. It just wants to wake you up from your nightmares, From your judgment, So you can feel peace again. Now bring someone to mind where you're losing your peace, Where you feel you have judgment about them. Someone who you're critical of, Angry about. Just let someone appear. If no one comes then turn to your guide and just ask them to show you someone. As they appear to you, You may feel angry and upset and perhaps remember the last time you were with them, If things didn't go too well. It's okay to be angry or hateful or attacking. You just see them there, Perhaps the situation. Now the first stage of this exercise begins. I'd like you to see a light around him or her, Perhaps like under a waterfall of light, But they're surrounded by light. You can't see that, Just feel it, Imagine it. See the light, Feel the light all around their body from head to toe. A beautiful bright light. Now see him or her starting to smile. And now he or her starts to smile and laugh and looks very happy. The light is blessing this person. Now you say to this person, I have no right to say you must be different. I don't have the right to say to you, You must be different than the way you are. It's me wishing for you to be a different type of person, To act in a different way to me, To be the way I want you to be, That's causing part of the pain. If they're an angry person by nature, Just allow them to be angry now. You don't have to conform and change to what you want. The last time say, I have no right to say you must be different, It must be the way I want you to be. Feel the peace that comes with letting them be just the way they are. It's not your responsibility to try and change them into another type of person. Now send out a prayer for this person's healing and peace. Wish them well, Wish them peaceful, Their minds healed so they too may feel at peace. Here's what you want for yourself and what you give to others will come back to you. As you send this prayer of healing and peace, You see or sense this peace arriving. You see them relaxing, They're upset, Their anger melting and they're thankful to you for sending this healing. At the same time you receive it yourself. The reason you've been upset with this person is that they're mirroring something unhealed, Unforgiving in yourself. Somewhere you have related behavior to them. It may not appear in the form that they do it. Perhaps they're a very angry person, You hardly ever show anger, But you may have a silent anger. Is this that they're mirroring? Is this that upset you? Say to them now, Thank you for being a mirror and showing me I have behavior similar to yours. Thank you for being a mirror and showing me I have behavior similar to yours. When you look into yourself can you find similar behavior? This is what really upsets you. You don't want to see this, You deny it, You project it out onto the other person. Otherwise you'd have compassion for their behavior and not judgment. Try and see this person as a teacher, Showing you what needs to be healed in yourself. Perhaps you can feel grateful for the lesson that's been shown here. If you got this far give the person a hug. Thank them for being your teacher. You may have something you want to say to them and after that listen they may have something to say to you explaining why all this has happened. Spend some time with each other. When you feel complete with all this see if your sense of peace has increased. Accept how far you've gone on the journey. Even taking one or two steps will have benefit. Know you can use and will probably need to use this exercise many times in the day. With time it becomes easier. Thank you for listening.

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Thank you. May you hold and give peace forever