Forgiveness breaks all bounds of repression and depression. It liberates
psyche from bondage to past.
In fact, I would rank forgiveness as essence of psychotherapy.
As human beings all our limitations arise from our psychic wounding. This wound has been either intentional or accidental, but it drains our vitality. In fact, if it has been grievous enough, it runs our whole life, and ruins it.
We are creatures designed to absorb and transmit love, and when an unloving act is foisted on us, when someone or something casts a shadow on our capacity to love, we bleed.
War zones, jails, and insane asylums are where wounded gather. This is where society sends its broken souls. Those who regain their capacity to love will emerge from these places of grief. Those who remain bitter will forever be incarcerated in them, whether or not they have been physically freed.
Those who are whole and well are dedicated to their capacity to love. They cannot kill, hurt, injure or maim another because they have not lost their capacity to see themselves as other. Ideals do not sway them to injure others, no matter how vaulted traditions in which those ideals are espoused. No ideal transcends their ideal to be of love and service to their brethren.
The cure for overcoming psychic wounding is to forgive. When we forgive, we pardon; we express mercy; and we liberate our own kindness.
When you forgive, you give forth your power of love to heal image, memory, or person that distorted your self-image and gave you false belief that you have been diminished, disempowered, and disenfranchised.
It is wounded who strike out and wound others. It is shadow of their own pain that they cast upon others. It is their unlovingness that they extend out of their crippled psyche. They become conduits for poison that they themselves despise.
