by Steve Marshall

Created on: December 03, 2009

Healing yourself through forgiveness and love.

Forgiveness has great power. Forgiveness is a form of love. Love always contains forgiveness within it. Love is always willing to forgive. The power behind forgiveness always only ever comes from love.

Love then is the only real healer.

Forgiveness allows a healing of the heart to take place within you. God has forgiven us, even before we ever ask him for any forgiveness.

Forgiveness like love is never containable. It must always burst forth or its pressure builds up within us until it will eventually burst out forth from our hearts.

One of the meanings of the word forgiveness is to allow. When you allow another person to be themselves, and so to make mistakes, you can accept them for being themselves, and then love them for them being a part of God, that is connected also to you.
''The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.''

It was Mahatma Gandhi who said this. Gandhi, ( 1869-1948) the great Indian statesman and philosopher was a pacifist, and a peacefully strong man.

Does this mean that he forgave others from his strength, or from his weakness?

Well if it is true what he said, this statement could only ever be said by someone who is strong.

Forgiveness has great strength to achieve all of the aims of love. One of these might be to self heal yourself, another might be to heal another person, as Jesus himself did many times. His power to forgive healed instantly.

Forgiveness brings you into present time.

You are not held in the past by negative ties anymore, and you are not concerned about what the future might bring to you either. You let go of all attachment to past events, and this is what begins the healing process, and then also allows it to move forwards.

If forgiveness does heal, why would it heal? What is to be healed, and what is forgiveness after all?

Forgiveness makes a bed of love for the other person now to lie down on, rather than a bed of nails.

This love is what heals.

Love brings the person to themself again, and this greater love allows them to make the true recognition of themselves, and so to grow into who they really are. Love then allows them to accept this same person, being rejected before, fully now as really being themselves. Full self acceptance always heals one spiritually, even though it might not always heal a person physically as well.

Spiritual healing sometimes takes time to move itself down into the lower bodies, but the complete healing of the lower

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