Forgiveness in Transcending Patterns

The power of forgiveness and love has been written about in all our spiritual texts.  Why do we resist doing this work?  What is the need to hold onto grudges/grievances.

My own ego consistently says I am right and they are wrong!   I don’t really know this for a fact, it is my belief, my defensive mechanism or my strategy to protect myself.   When I am willing to question this,  I can open up and learn. That is humility.

Then my task is to acknowledge.  To make the atonement.  I have realized that I am never privy to the biggest grandest picture out there.  My brain is so wired to defend, protect, blame, run, hide.  It is the evolutionary brain, it is how we survived all these years.  Knowing this I can reboot.

We are now being invited to make the shift to transcend the old patterns of our brain.

In listening to a friend speaking of forgiveness,she invited us to look at what possibly was motivating the behavior.  We don’t forgive the behaviors but we can the person. They are trying to get their needs met and their feeling acknowledged.

Perhaps their “bad” behavior is actually due to some trauma that is trying to heal and integrate.  According to A Course in Miracles, it is a cry for LOVE!  Think about how you would treat this person looking through this filter?

So as you look at someone you would like to forgive and love more, asking your heart, what is the motivation behind the behavior. What feelings are being expressed, what needs are they trying to get met?

Listen to what your heart says.  The heart knows, the mind separates. Allowing alignment to happen in your mind/heart/spirit is where we can access the frequency of forgiveness.