If there are people or situations in your history that wounded you so deeply you'd rather die than forgive, then it must have been pretty hard to click on this link. Give yourself credit -- some part of you is ready to take a huge step forward!

My current "breakfast book" is Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now, an extremely useful and inspiring paperback. He says that when we have parts of our life where we've been stuck for years, and nothing but nothing seems to budge them, then the root cause is often an area of unforgiveness.

Well, I surely do have an area or two in my life that doesn't change no matter how many energy treatments, flower essences, lightwork sessions, guided meditations, mantras, homeopathic remedies, visualizations, prayers, guides from other dimensions, yadda yadda I've tried over the years. I put my whole heart and soul into the work, but some of them simply refuse to be healed. Maybe you're stuck in some places, too, and maybe, like me, you secretly suspect that you're a metaphysical moron.

When I read what Joel had to say, in his usual humble, humorous way, I just couldn't imagine what relevance my list of unforgivables had to do with my list of unbudgables. What could a certain issue I still had with my mother who died 20 years ago possibly have to do with my lifelong struggle with a certain blockage? But hey, that particular issue had been UP again of late, and I'd tried every doggone thing I could think of to get free of it. What could I lose by trying?

I prayed, "Dear God of All Creation, I KNOW You want me to forgive my mother. And You know I've worked a lot of that crud through, but Joel insists there's still more. I don't know what it is, and I don't know how to release it, but You do and You know how. I ask that You completely dissolve each and every area of unforgiveness that remains in my relationship with my mother."

And then I added the post script you don't want to try unless you're really serious: "I MEAN IT, LORD." That particular rider on a prayer kicks things into high gear.

And just like it always happens when I pray that way, the insights and windows to forgive immediately began cropping up -- a whole lot faster than I really wanted them to. Oh yeah, I remembered stuff and prayed to release it. And I found out that certain people who annoy me do so because they're acting like a mother. They think they're being nurturing and helpful, but I interpret them as being controlling and get all bent out of shape. There's been plenty of movement in that stuck place since then, and positive change in a couple of relationships.

If this is ringing bells with you, try tackling an area of unforgiveness of your own. In addition to prayer, there are healing tools that can be helpful. Among the flower essences, work with Bach/Healing Herb's Willow, Holly, and Star of Bethlehem; Alaskan Flower Essence Project's Alpine Azalea; Australian Bush Essences' Southern Cross; and Flower Essence Service's Golden Ear Drops. The links above will take you to articles about those essences in past issues of Vibration.

If you work with light and color healing, surround yourself and your prayer work with purple light shading into lavender to move from grievance to forgiveness. Try Soul Retrieval work on the incident/s that wounded you. And I've seen excellent movement with EFT ("tapping") or HBLU (Healing from the Body-Level Up).

It's important to remember that forgiveness is really not for the sake of the offending party, but rather to give you much-needed freedom and peace of mind. And it might just get you unstuck -- isn't that worth a shot?

Editors' Note: See another article about forgiveness here. And, of course, read Lila Devi Stone's article about Raspberry, right after this one.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donna Cunningham has been Vibration's co-editor for this past 10 years. She's also the internationally-loved author of more than 15 books in the field of astrology. Visit her website for information on her books, intermediate level astrology correspondence course, and writing seminars for astrological and metaphysical practitioners/ For new insights and information on astrology, writing and healing tools, visit Donna's new blog, Sky Writer, and sign up for a free subscription.

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