Lack Of Forgiveness In Schwartzberg's Gratitude Revealed

the truth is whether or not we forgive has nothing to do with controlling another individual’s behavior. People do exactly what they want to do. They only person to let off the hook is ourselves, by not showing concern ourselves with monitoring someone else’s behavior, or replaying the past. There are some steps that one could take, however these are not easy steps by any means, because many of them are worked in tandem, but nonetheless they are pieces that makes up the whole. Here is what should be done.
First, acknowledge the parts of you that do not want to forgive. The parts that want to punish by not forgiving, that derive some artificial source of power from withholding forgiveness. It is a sign of health the we become aware of …show more content…
This goes back to the fear that forgiveness was granted, “it” might happen again because the person thought that they could ‘get away with” it. The moment that you decide that you will not tolerate the behaviors that lead you not to forgive is the moment that things shift. Suffering end, the moment we decide to forgive. This is a core belief of Malynn Utziger, MD, a certified yoga instructor and specialist in holistic medicine. As part of filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg’s “Gratitude Revealed” series, Dr. Utzinger did an exceptional job in narrating what happens when we are able to move past old hurts and learn how to practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is not about accepting wrong or even going against one own values. Forgiveness is all about healing, and the result is that it will illuminate the dreadful and powerful path to advancement into living a more gracious …show more content…
At that very moment of letting go, you begin to experience a new ray of light that opens to you and flows into the heart. Again, this is the very moment when the healing begins. The old, hardened stories have worn grooves into your mind and your heart. The hardness becomes a habit, long after the event will have passed. One will have eventually hoped that hanging onto an old story will perhaps one day make it right. However, the gift comes when you decide that the change is within your own self. The moment that change begins, the old story falls away, and the winds blow, and everything will have become new again. All of the caverns of the heart stretches in order to welcome the light to come in. A tremendous and unforced compassion and connection arises will arise spontaneously within us, and will of course flow to others. Forgiveness is a letting go, it is not accepting a wrong or going against your basic values. Forgiveness is for healing yourself, and the places within you that have been so tight and hard can be soften. The body can open. There will be new space on the inside of you, new chambers will come into being within your heart, also places you may not have ever know existed before. One of the most difficult part is that we often show up with an idea that we may be done with the forgiving process. Forgiveness need to be administered each day, on a repeated basis, for the one hundred