True Forgiveness exercise

An exercise example for practising

True Forgiveness

(with explanatory notes):

In 2006 Theresa and I were inwardly prompted to put together and practise a True Forgiveness exercise, using some input from A Course in Miracles, some from Gary Renard’s book, The Disappearance of the Universe, and some under inspiration from the Holy Spirit. It was instrumental in bringing completely life-transforming liberation from karmic entanglements, with limitless effects and benefits. We have since shared it with many, who have expressed deep gratitude for the help it has been to them, so it is now presented here, for all who will to practise it.

NB: This exercise is for undertaking silently, with/via the Holy Spirit as the intermediary between the forgiver and the forgivee. In most circumstances it should not be in the bodily presence or hearing of the forgivee.

This endeavour should be practised for as long as the heart-centred motivation for healing the broken relationship is felt. This may serviceably be daily – even twice a day, morning and night – for weeks, months, years, if necessary, keeping faith and trust that each practise is effecting progress toward the desired result, even though we may be outwardly unaware of it. This does not matter because the Holy Spirit, Who sees everything and Knows everything, works on our behalf to complete what we are sincerely asking of/through Him.

Holding expectations of outcomes according to our limited perception merely hinders the process. Faith and trust in the Divine Will for the healing of all brokenness, and wholehearted desire for restoration to Loving Wholeness of any and all human relationships is paramount in our approach to true forgivemess.

Here is the exercise, with some accompanying explanatory notes in blue type:

Dear Blank: I choose gladly to forgive you for all the things that in Truth you have never really done,

that I may freely receive the forgiveness that is rightfully mine.

(Jesus counsels us that as we judge, so are we judged, and as we forgive, so are we forgiven, because it is our very own judgement and forgiveness by/with which we are judged or forgiven. How could it be otherwise, since a. there is only One of us, and b. God, our Creator, is unconditional – and therefore non-judgemental – Love, and we are created in His exact likeness? So, the very act of forgiving – with true [unconditional] forgiveness – of our named Party brings, activates, cannot but effect, our own self-forgiveness. By extending the same forgiveness to our fellows that Papa extends to us – how self-deceiving, false and unserviceable would any other kind of [false] ‘forgiveness’ be? – so does it automatically, spontaneously become ours because in eternity, giving and receiving are one and the same thing and happen simultaneously. Remember, eternity is not in the future, after we lay aside our body; it is NOW, the forever-present always.)

And I ask your forgiveness of me for all the things that in Truth I also have never done,

that you may freely receive the forgiveness that is rightfully yours.

(The forgiveness is rightfully the forgiver’s and the forgivee’s because we are all – already, in the true estate of our eternal being – ONE, and also, equally innocent. This is why we can – and should – say ‘all the things we have never done.’ Remember, this is nothing more than an illusory, temporal, dream of a broken, conflicted world. The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth is the real world, already present in the midst with us, but our unbelief, judgements and grievances block our awareness of It.)

I give you this gift of forgiveness, via the Holy Spirit, so that, by His wisdom and timing,

He may place it in you and keep it safe within your mind, and bring it to your awareness when He sees that you are ready and able to receive it,

and that I, also, may receive it.

(Because, to repeat, in eternity, giving and receiving are one and the same thing and happen simultaneously. We are free to apply that Truth here, in time and place, thereby bringing us closer to the ever-present reality of eternity – Heaven, right here, right now, in our earthly lives.)

And now we are released into innocence, and join with the Holy Spirit in Peace and joyous Oneness with our beloved brother Jesus, in the heart, mind and Loving, endless embrace of Papa.

I bless you, bless you, bless you ...

(‘thrice blessed’ is an empowered, supercharged blessing – rather along the lines of light being amplified by stimulated emission of radiation, or laser; one might call thrice blessed ‘blaser’ – not just 3 blessings together, so the sum of it is exponentially greater than its parts. Further, saying it three times also focuses us on the committed intent for blessing, ensuring we are saying it with sincerity, without which none of this works because the sincerity of our heart is what generates the empowerment of the process.)

... for restoration to fullness of your remembrance of who you really are. You are Christ, pure and innocent. Papa’s Son is guiltless and sin does not exist.

Now are we forgiven, and free to see in each other only the face of Christ .

Here is the exercise again:

(without the explanatory notes)