Forgiveness/Reclaiming Your Power exercise:

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Forgiveness/Reclaiming Your Power exercise:

 

The one thing that must be done above all to begin our own healing

with regard to our own low self-esteem is to love. To forgive both

those who we feel have wronged us, and most importantly of all

ourselves, is to regain our lost power. To reclaim this lost power

(that which we have so readily given away to both friends, family,

and enemies alike, I recommend the following exercise borrowed

liberally from the Native American Shamanic tradition of erasing

personal history (and thereby reclaiming the personal power given

away).

 

Reclaiming your Power:

 

1. With plenty of time to complete the task no matter how long it

takes, find a quiet comfortable area where you will not be disturbed-

a place where you feel safe, a place where you feel some kind of

nurturance from your surroundings such as a room filled with your

favorite books, a quiet garden space, or somewhere out in nature.

 

2. Center yourself in whatever way is most comfortable for you - by

chanting, by smudging, or simply by sitting peacefully with your eyes

open or closed for a short period of time.

 

3. Open yourself to your own highest Good, your Higher Power, some

non-denominational sense of the Cosmos that you know loves you and

that you trust.

 

4. As you find yourself ready, go slowly over the decades of your

life - either chronologically or in reverse order. Think of and/or

write down a list of all those you have been involved with you in

some way and to whom you have given a part of yourself. This could be

either in a positive or negative way through some kind of attachment

of love or hate or fear or some other emotional state. This list

should include such people as your parents, your teachers, your

school mates who you envied or tried to copy, the neighborhood bully,

the girlfriends or boyfriends - real or imagined, the husbands or

wives, your children, your neighbors, the bosses and co-workers with

whom you have shared both good times and bad - everyone who you can

say took or was given a piece of you that you now need to reclaim in

this attempt to regain your personal power.

 

Kenneth Meadows, in his book The Medicine Way - A Shamanic Path to

Self Mastery, says to use the phrase, 'Things would have been so

different IF . . .' The things which follow that IF are the very

attachments you now need to release. In releasing attachments we let

go of what is draining us of our personal power. We reclaim the focus

and the attention from the past and are now able to recrystallize it

on our present circumstances and stand in our power and in our

strength.

5. Once we have made this list or identified those with whom our

personal power has been in storage, then comes the essential act of

reclaiming our power, thanking - and if necessary, forgiving them,

and ourselves. No matter what has happened between the two of you -

things either positive or seemingly negative - the lessons have been

there for you to learn, and these people have done their best,

limited though it may appear to you, to help you learn your lessons

and make you the best person you can be. Thank them for whatever part

they have played in your own spiritual growth, and forgive them for

whatever they did or did not do to you in any other way. To hold any

strong feeling for anyone in the past is to give away a piece of your

energy to that person, and the personal power you will need here in

the very near and very real future that awaits us all in combating

the New World Order. Do this for each and every person on your list,

savoring each moment as you recall it and then letting it go.

 

6. And when all is said and done, then look at your own behavior over

these same times and know that, although you may not always have been

at your best, that to live in shame or blame or with some degree of

guilt is the greatest source of giving away your personal power to a

source which is not real. The real Creator has only and is only Love.

Darkness cannot even come near to it because IT is so much Light. If

IT cannot see Darkness, then it certainly does not judge us for it

knows we are learning, and that there is a balance for everything we

do. In this spirit, love yourself as IT loves you, and then forgive

yourself.

 

7. Make a small ritual of burning or destroying your list, and feel

the weight being lifted from your shoulders as your strength and Will

and power return to you. Then be cognizant of every person and

situation that enters your day and may try to steal some of your

power away again. Bless them or the situation and give them love and

be on your way, safe in your newfound strength, prepared for the

difficult days ahead, knowing that though the Darkness may reign for

a short time longer on the planet as it solidifies its power base

here - there can only be one eventual winner - and of that there is

no doubt. The Light will always overcome the Darkness and drive it

back into the Void from whence it first came.

 

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[Guest guest]

This is a very nice exercise, Peter. Thank you for sharing it!

 

Michelle

 

To forgive both those who we feel have wronged us, and most importantly

of all ourselves, is to regain our lost power.