Forgiveness - Part III

In mid-2006 my dear friend Cezanna Malter sent me an article by Joe Vitale*, who I then knew as an author and one of the interviewees in Rhonda Byrne's The Secret. I knew that Joe had written several books on Marketing, I call his brand of marketing 'Holistic Marketing', and when I read this article I was completely blown away. It had nothing to do with marketing but a concept, and a dimension of forgiveness that was SO easy, and SO difficult at the same time. The article had a story so powerful that it gave me goosebumps. If this could work... by golly - the potential was mind blowing.

In mid-October, 2007 I had gone to a writer's workshop in Delray Beach, Florida where Joe was the keynote speaker. I sat smugly in the audience because I knew all about the background to the story he was telling us, his story from the aforementioned article, and which his new book was based on. During the short break I walked up to him and told him I had a testimonial for him, how his article and the 'formula' contained in it had changed my life. He asked me to share my story with the attendees which I did, and in the bargain received a 'thank you' from him in the form of one of his books :-). Back to the main story, however, and the formula Joe had mentioned, to use, to heal any difficult situation with anyone at all. Get ready, take a deep breath, and grab a chair - you don't want to be standing when you hear this :-)!

Well, after relating the story (the story will be in tomorrow's blog), Joe suggested that ANY TIME you find a situation which is impossible to deal with, think about the person at the center of it, and repeat like a mantra: "I'm sorry; please forgive me; thank you; I love you." Now, you're not supposed to be on your knees before the person, nor be saying it aloud to them, but just in your head, simply keep repeating a few times in the day, and depending on the situation for whatever number of days you feel the need to do it (when something difficult or unpleasant shows up in my life, I breathe in and out, slowly and deliberately a few times, and repeat this three times -- or depending on the situation I might repeat it a few times in the day, or even for several days).

In my experience doing this has ALWAYS, but ALWAYS shifted the energy around the person and the problem. Though mind you, you will find your whole system balking at the idea the first few times -- WHAT? - you might wanna shout - I SHOULD SAY SORRY, and ask for forgiveness? What ROT! --- The thing to remember, however, is that you are not begging anyone for their forgiveness -- you are merely taking action to heal something that in its present state is creating an unpleasant situation for you. For me personally, I find that living with disharmony takes a heavy emotional toll on me, and so in a situation where I have no control, I use this system to do whatever is possible for me to do, and take action in the only way open to me. I start by repeating the formula quite mechanically, without thinking too deeply about it, till the emotional charge is gone and then I start feeling good, and productive, about being pro-active and doing something right to improve an 'unhealthy' situation.

Hey, treat it like a game -- before you know it you will have created magic. Isn't that worth a lot, would you say? Go on - try it :-)!

*Joe Vitale is a certified metaphysical practitioner, a certified Chi Kung healer, an ordained minister, a certified hypnotherapist and an author.

Kiki ;-)
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.