Why Forgive?

Jenna Atkinson
Jul 22, 2017 · 2 min read

You may think that to forgive is doing the offending party a favor. In fact, it’s doing yourself a favor.

Forgiving helps you manifest your dreams more quickly.

When you hold anger, you’re holding it in your own body.

It colors everything you do. It stays there in your psyche. You filter everything through your sense of being a victim.

As a victim, you have no power.

Not because someone took it from you. But because you are choosing to give your power to someone else.

Another person can’t take your power.

It may seem this way, but it’s not the truth.

It’s the way most of us were conditioned to think.

Yet the most empowering thing for you to do is to forgive.

Why?

Because it releases you from suffering.

A personal conversation or an immersion in new thought would be appropriate. To go into this topic is too much for one story.

But I’ll ask you this. What kind of person would you like to be?

Think about those individuals who publicly forgive a criminal in a trial.

They stand out, don’t they? Don’t you respect them?

They aren’t saying it was OK. They’re not less loyal to their loved ones.

They have an understanding that to hold onto judgment and hate doesn’t change what happened.

But it does keep them in bondage.

If you’re still saying I can’t forgive. Here’s what will help.

Experiment with forgiveness.

Set a timeframe in which you act as if you’re a person who forgives.
Act as if you‘ve moved through judgment and beyond it.

See what happens when you go about life as one who forgives.

You can always go back to the anger later.

Give it 30 days. I’ll help you by writing a new story on how to do this tomorrow.

See what happens and report back to me.

I’d love to know if you had a breakthrough.

Hey! I’m Jenna Atkinson and I’m an intuitive. I do readings and teach how to notice and understand the signs of guidance you’re receiving.

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