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Forgiveness, the Key to Personal Freedom

Written by Lynne on August 24, 2011 – 9:18 am -

This is the eighth of 12 new articles updating the Brilliance formula.Forgiveness is the doorway to true Ascension, allowing us to discover our divine humanness.

Forgiveness, the Key to Personal Freedom

Lynne Hoft & Vivian Hildebrandt

Forgiveness best serves the one who is doing the forgiving. It is one of the final steps to understanding the divine in us and to personal freedom. True freedom cannot be attained without forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not a concept that is welcomed in the public domain of the world as we experience it today. Although there are those who find forgiveness the only way to let go of grief and trauma, there are others who hold on tightly to grudges, judgments and misunderstandings. For them, forgiveness is either unknown or unused.

Every news medium covers the details of damaging events, exchanges, and circumstances. Whether these concern purposeful despoiling of water, usury in financial transactions, or assaults on our feelings, bodies, or reputations, the effects on us are huge. When warring factions continue ancient feuds regarding religious viewpoints or territorial disputes, our world and its inhabitants are terrorized.

There is a journey to forgiveness. Many times we’ve felt so hurt and betrayed by others that we couldn’t let go long enough to see the bigger picture. We worried that forgiving and forgetting would leave us open to being hurt again. We believed that there were some things that were “unforgivable”. In our personal lives, we feared the vulnerability of our hurt, and we trapped ourselves in a pose of unassailable rightness. These habits and beliefs kept us locked into a “holding grudges” state of being. In many cases, we chose to suffer when we could have accepted the experience of life and learned to understand and perhaps start again through the exercise of forgiving ourselves and those who appeared to harm us.

Long ago through the writing of Carlos Castanedas, we were made aware of the concept of the “petitos tyranitos”—the petty tyrant. From Carlos we learned how others serve as our tryants. Their presence in our lives, pushing all our buttons, forces us to grow. Carlos encouraged being grateful for the tyrants that move us beyond ourselves, move us beyond our old habits and patterns of being, allowing us to release those parts of ourselves in order to grow.

We are living in a time of completion where true resolution is available for every limiting habit or belief we’ve ever held onto. Now we have the opportunity to see with new eyes and hear with an open heart. The Light of Brilliance within us stands ready to illuminate what is the truth behind all appearances. It stands ready to pierce the armor we have created with our limiting beliefs. Brilliance brings love and peace to us in the instant we accept its impulse of connection and understanding.

By using the H’oponopono, an ancient Hawaiian technique for release and forgiveness, we have become aware of how our willingness to forgive others and to ask for forgiveness for our own transgressions, provides a bigger picture. It is clear that whether we are the antagonist or the peace-maker, we in fact play both roles for one another to create the space where we are willing to go beyond appearances and truly transform ourselves and our world. The greatest piece of this process for us is the act of forgiving ourselves. Forgiving self allows us to accept a transformation, a transfiguration, where healing and wholeness are born from pain and suffering.

Forgiveness is the doorway to true Ascension. It allows to us to truly move beyond all that prevents our discovering our mastery, our majesty, and our divine humanness.