Inspirational Texts - Forgiveness

Forgiveness of Self · Meditation

Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Straighten your back, allowing the breath to gently come into the body and to flow out of your body. Feel the breath like a gentle breeze--soft and easy. No control. Just breathing in and breathing out. If the mind should wander, or if you hear a sound outside, just take it in and return to the awareness of your breath, this present moment.

Because we have been so hard on ourselves, we must forgive ourselves. For to forgive ourselves, is to soften the barriers around our hearts and to let ourselves into our hearts.

So many ways I have hurt or harmed myself, this body, this heart, this mind. So many ways I've been critical of myself, judged myself, even victimized myself. I allow those times, those critical and harsh words, to come into my awareness and see how hard I am on myself.

So many ways I have not cared for you my sweet self.

But then I remember that it is out of my fear, my pain, my ignorance, my neglect, that I hurt myself. I became confused.

It is time that I forgive myself, I have suffered enough. I have learned and I have grown and I am ready to open my heart to myself. I forgive myself. I open my heart to accepting myself and to loving myself. I forgive myself.

It is time to open my heart to light and love and compassion towards myself.

Feel the Spiritual Energy and the grace all around you and within you. Bring the light into your heart and touch those places where you hold the pain and judgments from the past, and touch those places with kindness and forgiveness. See if it's not time to let go.

I forgive myself. I embrace myself. I forgive myself what ever I have done in the past, and I am ready to open my heart and to release my judgments of myself.

It is the time to open my heart and to love myself, to acknowledge that I am an unique and precious being.

May I be happy, May I be free from self judgment. May I be free from my fears. May I know the joy of truly understanding myself. May I know the joy of accepting myself and loving myself unconditionally. May I be at peace.

I forgive myself.

Affirm the feeling of healing within you and let the image melt into space. Now return to the awareness of your breathing--- breathing out, breathing out. Breathing in light, breathing out love and compassion. Return to this room and gently open your eyes.

Rachel Kaufman - Deva Foundation.