Do the words natural inner peace surprise you? Yes, our natural state is inner peace. However, from our earliest years, we start to harbor psychic wounds. We allow the hurts to accumulate and clump together in our subconscious. We start to believe ideas like these:
I am a bad person.
I am not smart.
I am not worthy.
Nobody likes me.
I am not love-able.
Life is unfair.
The world is cruel.
Bad things happen.
When we allow these ideas to take over, we suffer.
And the more we think thoughts like these, the more we draw events toward us that re-enforce these very ideas. We work a theme. Perhaps it's a belief in abandonment. Maybe there was an incident as a very small child where we felt abandoned. We may find that throughout our lifetime we re-experience those same feelings. On a regular basis, events transpire in which we are "abandoned" yet one more time.
The only way to stop the cycle of hurt is to forgive and release the grievances. We can start by working on the most recent experience of abandonment. We can forgive the event and anyone involved in it. That will go along way toward resolving this issue. However, it is best to root it out fully. We do this by searching our memories for the earliest time when we felt this emotion. We sit with these feelings and experience them fully until they move through us. We remember, contemplate, feel the feelings and release.
This takes time and it takes a commitment to look deep, be open to epiphanies, to keep studying ourselves, week after week and month after month. Things will be revealed. Aha moments will happen. And as we understand more about what occurred in our past, as we forgive and release, we will begin the process of restoring that natural inner peace.
We all have a choice. We can continue to let fear run our daily lives, or we can do the work and forgive our world. It takes a lot of inner work to create a forgiveness lifestyle and it unfolds slowly over the course of several years, if one is fully committed. However, once we do this work, we live largely in peace. Happiness is once again our ordinary state.
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Ask yourself, are you really truly happy? Or are you substituting a nice car, a good job, busy children and a comfortable house for true happiness. Are you just telling yourself that this is what happiness is? Because happiness is so much more than a busy comfortable life. True happiness comes from a deep inner peace that only forgiveness can bring.
Forgiveness is a lot easier than you may think. If you would like to forgive, but don't know how to start, "Forgiveness is the Key to Happiness" outlines many easy processes to help you learn to forgive. Amazingly, forgiveness actually becomes pleasurable and something you will look forward to.
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