One of the greatest reasons for the shift in collective consciousness that ravages this passage of time has very much to do with FORGIVENESS. Many families gather and have so many various fractured relationships, that something that should be celebratory in nature becomes an act of obligation. So I thought this was a perfect time for me to humbly offer my own personal BELIEF on the very topic of FORGIVENESS in the hopes that it will spark a new paradigm on the way we view this very crucial and absolutely necessary aspect of the human condition.
In order for me to fully flesh out my personal explanation of this term, I thought I would break down the word itself. If we look at the word FORGIVENESS and break it down into syllables it says For Giving. But what does that mean exactly?!? It means that to truly FORGIVE means that the act in and of itself is FOR GIVING someone who has forgotten who they truly are back to themselves. Does that make sense?!? In my coaching practice I know this is a very new and challenging viewpoint to truly understand. And I get it! We have been soooo conditioned to use this term as a way of thinking that another has in some way wronged us. And so it is our choice whether to absolve them of their transgressions toward us. And unfortunately, we often choose to hold these transgressions close to our BEING out of personal protection or from a place of EGO. And this practice has caused many of us to a practice of judgement, but also many years or even decades of lost connection with other SOULS who only wish to feel loved and cared for on a heartfelt manner.
So I would like to offer to my TRIBE a radically different view of how we can actually use the act of FORGIVENESS in an entirely different and radically more powerfully manner than we may have ever pondered. Are you game??? Great!!!!
The TRUE meaning of the word Forgiveness is FOR us to GIVE one another the Re-membrance of who we truly are until we can hold this space for ourselves. And in this process, there is no SPACE for judgment. Only COMPASSION, Love, and healing LIGHT!! For when we mistakenly BELIEVE that another wronged us in some way, we transcend this hurt and Re-member first for ourselves, and then for the OTHER that their only real transgression is forgetting that WE ARE ALL ONE!! Because once we are offered this Re-membrance, all forms of separateness simply melt away.
And we no longer look at another's actions as something that was intentionally meant to injure us.
Now of course there are exceptions to this understanding, just as they say the only truths are Death and Taxes....LOL ;0) I am in no way advocating that we allow ourselves to continue to stay in situations that are completely TOXIC in nature. NO WAY JOSE! Sometimes other SOULS need time and space to heal and understand the affect of their ways on themselves and others. However this does not mean that during this period, we do not pray for them from afar as they come to their own understanding in their OWN TIME!! All in the effort of helping them Re-member who they truly are and why they came here on this ultimate adventure!!
It is my wish that throughout this Holiday Season that you receive one another in the true REVERENT nature that we all DESERVE!! Because this Holiday Season is a wonderful time to give each other the greatest gift of all........... The gift of the true meaning of FORGIVENESS so that we may all experience the gift of and Re-membrance that WE ARE ALL ONE..!!!
Nerdmaste,
Jeffrey Louis Martinez
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