The Transformative Power of Forgiveness

December 21st, 2024

By Paul A. Philips

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Forgiveness: Imagine a number of matchsticks unevenly arranged on a table:

Instead of these matchsticks converging, all pointing in the same direction, some point in different directions. All these matchsticks could represent the total energy of a person’s mind.

In other words, instead of someone’s total psychic energy pointing in a forward-moving direction for handling life effectively, having the power of cause and effect, some of it points in other directions: Not polarized, this may lead to counterproductiveness when it comes to life handling and workability.

These repressed, locked-in, counterproductive, or straggled-away energies may have been caused by physical or mental pain and trauma or gross embarrassment… resulting in an individual deviating from rational thought or behavior.

It may also lead to irrational fear, resignation, feelings of inadequacy, and declining the opportunity to escape one’s comfort zone. Then there’s the tiredness, weariness, or sense of sluggishness—all of which can prevent living a fulfilling life…

Think of how much more on-the-button of cause and effect in life and energetically alert this individual would be if able to tap into these counterproductive energies and get them to point in a forward-moving direction like the rest of the available energy!

Not forgiving  – unexpressed anger and resentment

This may come as a surprise to some. Still, I will say that without a doubt, one of the most underestimated reasons for the formation of these counterproductive energies comes from the consequences of not forgiving someone.

After all, who’s the one who’s suffering when you don’t forgive someone?

The counterproductive energies caused by not forgiving and no expression of love can be locked in through the consequences of unexpressed anger or resentment.

All that undelivered communication, pent-up anger, and resentment will never be expressed or released because she will not be able to communicate with her late father.

Something else to understand here. Consider this: In relationships, be it with marriage, a girlfriend or boyfriend, relatives, close friends, or business partners, sometimes there is a situation where one person overreacts way too angrily, which is uncalled for.

That’s because the anger wasn’t just coming from that particular situation. The overreaction and, anger, hostility… were also coming from several similar past-related situations whereby the angry individual had not expressed themselves.

To reiterate: Much anger and hostility… can come from all those earlier similar incidents where there was undelivered unexpressed communication… This is important to realize.

The solution is forgiveness and being complete

With a commitment to change and having the courage to no longer be“putting up with something,” communication is a major factor in forgiveness and being whole and complete with someone.

Speaking and listening to someone you haven’t forgiven allows you to bring forth unexpressed, undelivered communication. Talk it out. Establish a reality, then gain an understanding, and love will follow… allowing you to forgive and be whole and complete with that person. Thus, wholeness and completion mean putting the past in the past where it no longer affects you.

Forgiveness can also simply mean letting go of those hurtful things related to anger, resentment… care of compassion, and empathy.

In short, to love someone is to simply love them for the way they are and the way they are not.

This is a very powerful statement about love when really understood as an insight.

Further, have a look at this response in relation to understanding the true essence of love: beyond possessions and emotions.

The power of cause and effect

The power of cause and effect through forgiveness can be transforming.

The benefits of forgiveness include improved mental and physical health: Raised self-esteem, less of or no more down in the dumps or depression, thinking more clearly, better focused, more in touch with spirituality, greater energy…, not to mention better relationships through no longer feeling resentment or bitterness,  while feeling mentally and physically fitter, having an improved immune system, better heart health, and possibly lower blood pressure…

No longer downward spiraling in a swamp of mental anguish, no longer in self-imprisonment, having forgiven, those locked-in energies can free themselves and be available for heart-healing, moving forward, being more enthusiastic, more energetic, more willing to take on the world and have more power over cause and effective in life!

In short, much needed by so many, forgiveness is liberating as it plays a major part in a world where uncondidtional love is so desperately needed.

Finally

Is there someone in your life you are incomplete with? Consider the liberating consequences for yourself if you could come to forgive with them.

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About the Author:

My blogs, along with the related alternative news website iNewParadigm.com, are about my belief that we can create a world that makes a difference for everyone.

I had graduated in biomedical sciences and worked for a number of years in healthcare. I am now a retiree. My website is slanted on health matters.

However, over the years, I have come to the firm conclusion that practically every subject under the sun needs redefining using more truthful, honest, and integral approaches in theory and practice, hence the website’s name ‘New Paradigm’

From these new approaches, from the ‘imagination of ourselves,’ from our visions… a ‘new era’ in humanity can result!

This article was first published on iNewParadigm.com and republished here with permission.