To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. - Lewis B. Smedes. In E35 we learned three rules to prevent future emotional scars. But what about past emotional scars? Let’s explore how to remove old hurts, grudges, grievances and resentments. The results will be new life and new vitality and a new found peace of mind and happiness. Old emotional scars can’t be doctored or medicated. They have to be cut out and completely eradicated. Forgiveness is the way to do this. Therapeutic forgiveness is like surgery. It cuts out, eradicates, cancels and makes the wrong as if it never happened. Anyone can forgive if they are willing. We find it difficult to forgive only because we like our sense of condemnation. We get a perverse and morbid enjoyment out of nursing our wounds. It’s important to forgive yourself as well as others. Remorse and regret are attempts to emotionally live in the past Emotions are used correctly and appropriately when they help us respond or react appropriately to some reality in our present environment. You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make YOU. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz, emotional scars, heal emotional scars, how to heal emotional scars, healing the emotional scars, self forgiveness, what is forgiveness, forgiveness meditation, forgiveness, steps to forgiveness, power of forgiveness.

Ask this episode

“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

Transcript

Related