Forgiveness

Do you feel worthy of having joy?
Do you feel you deserve it?

The first step to activating our inner joy is to eliminate the blocks to it. We can start by truly forgiving ourselves and all others. Forgiveness calls for a shift in our perception. It is easier to forgive ourselves and others when we really understand that each of us has always done the very best we knew to do at that time. I really like that part.

"If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. I really like that part too! I have to forgive myself. That is a hard one. I have to forgive others for the wounds? That I allowed them to wound me? Back to forgiving myself again. No one can wound me without my permission...conscious or unconscious. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people,and to a larger whole." -- Joan Borysenko

I like the connecting to myself and others part. The move I love myself, the less I will allow others to wound me.