“When we are unforgiving and bitter, we are carrying rage and resentment and housing it in our bodies where it can cause immeasurable damage. I can’t afford that and neither can you. When we forgive someone, we don’t exonerate their behavior, we give ourselves the permission to let go and put down a great weight we have been carrying. The beneficial effects of forgiveness ripple out to our physical health and to all our relationships.” —Mariah Fenton Gladis
In this inspirational and experiential afternoon workshop the attendees will focus on the beneficial mind, body, and spiritual effects of forgiving – a life changing and sacred act that can be an antidote to depression, anxiety and shame.
What forgiveness is:
- Forgiveness is a gift to the injured person and the trespasser
- It is the stepping back with compassion for the unskilled behavior of another human being.
- It is the ability to see the offender in the context of his or her reality and have some understanding of how this could have happened.
- It is a letting go and putting down of a great weight
- It is a full body experience, not and intellectual one. You must have felt the pain, felt the anger, felt the hurt. (It is not an automatic “Forgive them for they know not what they do.”)
Please join us where we will encourage you to take an inventory of your unfinished resentments, and then help you do the work required to fully express and move through your anger toward them. It is possible, by moving toward forgiveness, even if it’s inch by inch, you can reach a capacity to forgive the unforgivable.