Greetings Readers!
I, like many others yesterday, watched the touching memorial for Michael Jackson as it was streamed live on CNN.com. For the most part it was a wonderful experience filled with great memories and tribute to the King of Pop.
Unfortunately, during the stream there were some people that decided to take cheap shots at Michael and I found myself getting very angry at the thought of people being so unkind. I mean, if you don't like Michael Jackson why log in and watch, right?
So I'm sitting there getting mad at people I don't know for typing things that may or not be true about MJ and suddenly I begin to experience a humdinger of a headache. Then it hits me – well two things do – 1. I'm wasting my energy disliking these people and 2. This is a perfect opportunity to practice forgiveness.
When you extend the energy of forgiveness to others it frees that energy for more valuable purposes (like manifesting a better relationship, a success business venture, you get the idea). More importantly, there's a certain healing quality to forgiveness that I can't explain. Incidentally, once I changed my anger energy to that of forgiveness my headache ceased!
We could all use a little forgiveness in our lives just as we would all do well to extend forgiveness to others. Here's a simple four step plan to invoke forgiveness*:
- Forgive the other person for causing you the feeling.
- Give the other person permission to forgive you for having the feeling.
- Forgive yourself for any harm that has come from that feeling.
- Wish the person well.
Just remember to begin with the most important person that deserves your forgiveness – YOU!
Have a PERFECT day!
Michael
My II Sense
*4 Steps to Forgiveness courtesy of the Carla Kay White blog
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This Was Beautiful King;)
ReplyDeleteOn point! I'm always amazed how hard it is to convince some people of this. When I learned to forgive it set me free. Great piece!
ReplyDeleteYou are quite right. It just takes so much energy, negative energy, to be angry. And often we are angry for so long, wer forget what angered us in the first place. We are just walking around toting the unnecessary negative energy with us.
ReplyDeleteIt's always easier to forgive and forget, and not hate.
Great reminder for me. I already do this every day, and especially if something comes up. The thing I will add is say the other person can forgive me for having the feelings I'm having at the moment. I like that.
ReplyDeleteCorrect Solomon; forgiveness is a two sided coin. You forgive others while forgiving yourself.
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