Power of Forgiveness

Written by: Arooj Shahbaz
(Lahore, Pakistan)

"Although it doesn't change the past, forgiveness expands the future".

One of the problems about our emotions is that we sometimes have emotional blockage when we're in connections with other people and haven't forgiven them. It prevents the unhindered expression of true feeling and our capacity to harmoniously engage with both our own and other people's emotions.

Healing starts with forgiveness. When you forgive, the door is opened for bodily healing as well as the mending of your soul and spirit.

Forgiveness is a very complex process and very difficult to accomplish because as a human being sometimes we become so egoistic that we ruin everything.

Most of the time we think that i m not going to forgive that person for what he/she did to me because it gets them off the hook and they will be ashamed of what they did.

The fact is the individual doesn't care if you forgive them. Instead, when you forgive and let go, you are the one who experiences healing.

If you are having trouble forgiving, you might want to go through a profound process to help you let go of the resentment, anguish, pain, and guilt you have been harboring.

Keep in mind that you must genuinely allow yourself to forgive whatever occurred in the past. If you continue to have grudges or feelings of betrayal, forgiving is really a hollow gesture. Just words, really.

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You must let go of all the guilt and pain. Say it out loud or just let it out: "I forgive this."

You can only truly forgive if you let go of your entire consciousness. The body can then start to heal.

The whole process of forgiveness is just not necessary for your physical healing but also helps you to get peace and mental healing.

We should follow some steps for forgiveness that are as follows:

• Acknowledge the Hurt: Who hurt you and why he/she did that.
• Consider the Hurt: How the hurt has affected you.
• Accept: Accept it that you cannot change what has happened.
• Determine: Determine whether or not you will forgive
• Repair: Try to repair and rebuild the damage.
• Learn: Learn what forgiveness means to you.
• Forgive: Forgive and get mental as well as physical healing.

Many of us goes through hard times when someone did anything wrong with us and make us mentally unstable but the best you can do is forgive and move on as sometimes being in a toxic relationship with toxic people it’s better to leave and get peace.

In the end i will surely relate it with our beautiful religion Islam as it is mentioned in Quran e Pak:

“The reward of the evil is the evil thereof, but whosoever forgives and makes amends, his reward is upon Allah.” [Qur’an, 42:40]

Whoever forgive others from the heart then Allah Almighty will give him reward and we know Allah’s rewards are best from all.