Forgiveness
Posted 04-19-2007 at 01:09 PM by janspirit
In the light of the recent shooting incident in USA, i thought I would post this...
Teaching Ourselves to Forgive
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Adapted from The Biology of Transcendence, by Joseph Chilton Pearce (Inner Traditions, 2004).
After more than thirty years of research, HeartMath, a research center in Boulder Creek, California, has worked out a program of training that can bring heart and brain into synchrony. Its approach is biological, eminently practical, and entirely uncluttered with sentiment, and the synchrony achieved through its procedure can be as spiritual or mystical as we wish to make it.
Simple Solution:
Here is a simple six-step approach that can help us to overcome the defenses of our archaic brain structures and open us to higher heart frequencies--a huge component of forgiveness rather than retaliation, loving compassion rather than defensiveness and resentment.
Learn these six simple steps, here:
1. Recognize when a stressful event is shaping up or taking place and “freeze the frame” at the instant of recognition. Freezing the frame is like pushing the “pause” button on your VCR--the picture’s action and sound are stopped immediately. As soon as you realize a stressful event is manifesting, freeze your state of mind, making no mental response. Any of us can suspend our thought, blank out inner chatter and ordinary reaction for a few seconds while we perform step two.
2. Shift your attention to the area of your heart. Focus and hold your attention there for the few seconds you will need for step three.
3. Recall a positive, joyful, fun-filled event in your life, or bring to mind some person whom you love fully or savor in memory. Form an image of that person or event as best you can and hold to the joyful feeling of that recollection without shifting your consciousness from your heart area.
4. Keeping your focus on your heart, open to your intuition and common sense and, with utmost sincerity, ask your heart what would be the best response you could make to the situation at hand. What behavior on your part would be most effective in resolving the tensions or healing the rupture in the relationships involved in the situations taking place?
5. Listen to what you then hear or feel as your heart’s response.
6. Act on the heart’s response.
We need to practice and live with these steps for awhile, perhaps practicing on a small scale with less important, incidental events. As we discover the effectiveness of the procedure, we are ready to risk ourselves and take on larger challenges. This small mental exercise can eventually become a way of forgiveness, the way we meet life automatically.
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Six Universal Spiritual Principles
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Adapted from Radical Simplicity, by Jim Merkel (New Society Publishers, 2003).
So many of us want to live more simply. In our search for strategies, focusing on these six basic principles that are common to all humanity can help us make underlying shifts in the way we live our lives, so we can live more in accordance with these deepest human values and principles.
Find out the six universal spiritual principles common to all people, here:
Kindness
Being kind to all life is a choice we can make in every moment of every day--doing as little harm and as much good as we can, given our situation.
Compassion
By putting ourselves in others’ shoes we may understand their struggle. The roots of the word compassion are “to suffer with;” by practicing voluntary radical simplicity, we will better understand the situation of the world’s low--income people. Most spiritual traditions extend compassion to all life, the Earth as whole, and the beholder (that’s you!)
Love
The intense concern a mother has for her child, and the child for its mother is one example of unconditional love. Most of us entered this world in the space of love. when the child no longer relies on its mother for nourishment, warmth, and safety, the Mother Earth takes over meeting our needs. This space of intense concern can be extended to all life.
Responsibility
When we love others and the Earth we will naturally want to be accountable for our influence on their welfare. In a global economy, truly being accountable for the implications of even our smallest actions is a tall order. It we transition to a bioregional lifestyle where we see the results of our choices ad we cultivate a love for all life, we might be more willing to be accountable.
Limits
Self-imposed limits and restraints are part of a spiritual life. We can grow to love limits as they focus our energies into positive, helpful activities that do no harm.
Fascination
To see the wonder and miracle of even the seemingly common things helps us appreciate our brief time on this planet. We draw a breath. . . and then another. . . What a miracle!
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Teaching Ourselves to Forgive
More Inspiration Solutions
Adapted from The Biology of Transcendence, by Joseph Chilton Pearce (Inner Traditions, 2004).
After more than thirty years of research, HeartMath, a research center in Boulder Creek, California, has worked out a program of training that can bring heart and brain into synchrony. Its approach is biological, eminently practical, and entirely uncluttered with sentiment, and the synchrony achieved through its procedure can be as spiritual or mystical as we wish to make it.
Simple Solution:
Here is a simple six-step approach that can help us to overcome the defenses of our archaic brain structures and open us to higher heart frequencies--a huge component of forgiveness rather than retaliation, loving compassion rather than defensiveness and resentment.
Learn these six simple steps, here:
1. Recognize when a stressful event is shaping up or taking place and “freeze the frame” at the instant of recognition. Freezing the frame is like pushing the “pause” button on your VCR--the picture’s action and sound are stopped immediately. As soon as you realize a stressful event is manifesting, freeze your state of mind, making no mental response. Any of us can suspend our thought, blank out inner chatter and ordinary reaction for a few seconds while we perform step two.
2. Shift your attention to the area of your heart. Focus and hold your attention there for the few seconds you will need for step three.
3. Recall a positive, joyful, fun-filled event in your life, or bring to mind some person whom you love fully or savor in memory. Form an image of that person or event as best you can and hold to the joyful feeling of that recollection without shifting your consciousness from your heart area.
4. Keeping your focus on your heart, open to your intuition and common sense and, with utmost sincerity, ask your heart what would be the best response you could make to the situation at hand. What behavior on your part would be most effective in resolving the tensions or healing the rupture in the relationships involved in the situations taking place?
5. Listen to what you then hear or feel as your heart’s response.
6. Act on the heart’s response.
We need to practice and live with these steps for awhile, perhaps practicing on a small scale with less important, incidental events. As we discover the effectiveness of the procedure, we are ready to risk ourselves and take on larger challenges. This small mental exercise can eventually become a way of forgiveness, the way we meet life automatically.
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Spa Secrets Information on natural spa secrets for your own home, from Annie B. Bond
Body, Mind & Spirit Information for your body, mind and spirit, from Annie B. Bond
* * * *
Six Universal Spiritual Principles
More Inspiration Solutions
Adapted from Radical Simplicity, by Jim Merkel (New Society Publishers, 2003).
So many of us want to live more simply. In our search for strategies, focusing on these six basic principles that are common to all humanity can help us make underlying shifts in the way we live our lives, so we can live more in accordance with these deepest human values and principles.
Find out the six universal spiritual principles common to all people, here:
Kindness
Being kind to all life is a choice we can make in every moment of every day--doing as little harm and as much good as we can, given our situation.
Compassion
By putting ourselves in others’ shoes we may understand their struggle. The roots of the word compassion are “to suffer with;” by practicing voluntary radical simplicity, we will better understand the situation of the world’s low--income people. Most spiritual traditions extend compassion to all life, the Earth as whole, and the beholder (that’s you!)
Love
The intense concern a mother has for her child, and the child for its mother is one example of unconditional love. Most of us entered this world in the space of love. when the child no longer relies on its mother for nourishment, warmth, and safety, the Mother Earth takes over meeting our needs. This space of intense concern can be extended to all life.
Responsibility
When we love others and the Earth we will naturally want to be accountable for our influence on their welfare. In a global economy, truly being accountable for the implications of even our smallest actions is a tall order. It we transition to a bioregional lifestyle where we see the results of our choices ad we cultivate a love for all life, we might be more willing to be accountable.
Limits
Self-imposed limits and restraints are part of a spiritual life. We can grow to love limits as they focus our energies into positive, helpful activities that do no harm.
Fascination
To see the wonder and miracle of even the seemingly common things helps us appreciate our brief time on this planet. We draw a breath. . . and then another. . . What a miracle!
Find this information helpful? Get Annie's Green & Healthy Living Series free newsletters directly in your inbox!
Spa Secrets Information on natural spa secrets for your own home, from Annie B. Bond
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