The Healing Power Of ForgivenessWritten by Saleem Rana
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.
| | "Talk Yourself Into Success"Written by Shannon Emmanuel
You’ve tried and failed. You’ve watched others fall. You’re wiped out, burned out, and beaten. Is there any way to turn it all around?If you’re reading this, than likely you have been working very hard at realizing a goal that now seems out of reach. It does not matter whether that goal is related to diet, creating a home business, getting a promotion, finishing a difficult course, or mastering a talent. The one common factor is that our past can, and will, affect our future success. So, if nothing has worked, shouldn’t you throw in towel? Learn from your mistakes and quit while you’re ahead? Think of this: "What’s Possible?" Why say Possible? Motivational speaker, Les Brown, shares an interesting lesson with us when he points out that past perceptions influence our projected images of success or failure. Consider what changes can be made when you see that others before you have conquered same battles, and same fears, and created a successful outcome. And consider that if it was possible for them, than it IS possible. Period.
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