Cleaning Out Your Attic: The Fundamental Advantage of Forgiveness

"Forgiveness means that you do not hold others responsible for your experiences." ~Gary Zukav

What clutter do you have in your attic or basement? Are you a "pack rat" or "collector" of stuff? Maybe you've got not just your stuff, your kid's stuff and your spouse's stuff, but the old belongings of a deceased relative that you just can't seem to part with.

Are these physical items holding you back? Perhaps if you long to live a Zenlike lifestyle they are, but most likely, they're just there.

What about the things you store in your mind? You'll find some memories there of the pleasures of living--weddings, anniversaries, births--maybe some sadnesses--deaths and loss. These are what make up a complete life, the highs and lows, ebb and flow. You've also got knowledge and appreciation up there, as well as all of your abilities--how to bake a cake, change your oil, ride a bicycle.

But there's some stuff in there that needs to be disposed of and in an upcoming article I'm going to to give you the specific steps on how to shed some of that resentment and bitterness.

Forgiveness is not about making yourself a better person or making yourself right with God or working out your karma, and it's not about benefiting the person you're forgiving (those these may all be accomplished as a result).

The purpose of forgiveness is to clear out what is holding you back from achieving your dreams. To clear out that part in your unconscious mind that is constantly pulling and dragging that negativity from you.

The Bible says, 'By beholding we become changed.'

What does that mean? It means you become more like what you focus on. Are you focusing on the greats of business and money creation? If you're not, what are you focusing on? Are you focusing on your day-to-day drudgery? What is that going to cause you? More day-to-day drudgery.

If we're focused on bitterness and challenges and lessons hurt, then a part of us is, all day, every day, bringing a piece of that to our lives over and over. I believe that one of the greatest reasons we are here on planet earth is to learn to understand that we're here to be able to manifest anything we want.

Try this: imagine you're dividing your unconscious into sections and lump all of the 'bad' parts--the troubles, difficulties, problems, resentments--into one section.

How much space is taken up by that useless garbage?

If we took all of this anger and bitterness and we assigned it a value in our unconscious mind... Well like, let's say that there is 5% down in there somewhere, even 1%. How would that affect you? It's like Chinese water torture. It's a drip, drip, drip, pain, pain, pain, agony, agony, constant problems dripping, dripping, never stopping. If we could somehow root that out, get rid of it, and instead, focus on our universes, what would our life become?

Forgiveness is the process of clearing out all of that to make room for more good in our lives.

Coming soon: Part II--the process of forgiveness is mapped out for you.

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs unique public and private seminars and offers home study courses, audio/visual learning tools, and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.

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