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Forgiveness

  • Writer: The Positive Shift
    The Positive Shift
  • Jun 28, 2025
  • 4 min read

Updated: Jun 29, 2025

Forgiveness is a process of courage and strength. To forgive is to heal yourself and the person who is still hurting and living inside of you. Forgiveness means doing the work necessary to process and understand the feeling of pain from the experience, allowing it to pass through you and then coming out on the other side, ready to forgive the pain and suffering, but not to forget the experience. Forgiveness is what you do for yourself. Remember that forgiveness does not mean that you have to tell the other person that you are forgiving them. To forgive, you need to anticipate and accept that I was hurt by my own feelings, expectations, and attachments when they didn't work out the way I wanted them to. Self-acceptance and forgiveness is the most important aspect of healing.


You forgive in order to free yourself and your heart, and this does not mean that you need to restore an old relationship or an old habit. You absolutely should not let him/her back into your life. Forgiveness does not mean forgetting. It also doesn't mean everything was ok. However, by forgiving yourself, you forgive the other person as well. The courage and strength it took to forgive yourself cleanses your heart and makes you a brave and open person. You are ready to move forward in life to fulfill your dreams and that old experiences are not holding you back. You deserve the love you so desire to share with others. You deserve to let go of your past so you can live better in the present.

Forgiveness frees you from trauma and from the other person. It gives you back strength and love for yourself and your life. Forgiveness means that you have all the teachings you need and are now living fully alive and free. forgiveness is what you do for yourself, not for the person who has harmed you. Forgiveness is the process of allowing your heart to release the pain it has been carrying. When we forgive, we release past emotional traumas so that they no longer harm us in the present.


How to forgive and love yourself?


To start the process, I recommend writing down everything you remember about your experience on paper or in a book. It may include conversations between you and the other person, situations, uncontrollable emotions, addictions, habits or patterns, it may include your suffering and how you felt. It's important to write...when we write, we release our emotional load as words on paper. Then read this and try to understand what exactly went wrong. Sometimes it is possible to realize our own mistakes that we simply ignored during the experience of such trauma. Knowing this helps you avoid similar traps in the future. Also, writing is about accepting what happened and your desire to change, and letting go.


If I believe that I have made a mistake, then I accept that I have made mistakes in my life, making mistakes is normal, because being human means learning from your mistakes. I experienced the feelings, emotions and consequences of my mistakes. I examined and adjusted my thoughts and behavior accordingly. Without these mistakes, I can never be who I am now. My mistakes become my teacher and help me become a better person. Everything I've been through will be incomplete if I don't intend to forgive myself for my actions.


If I believe that this person broke my trust and caused me emotional pain, then I accept that this person is not worth my love and trust. This immature behavior of his hurt me, but I forgive him because he learned about trust, respect and love through my love and acceptance towards him. I am grateful to myself for being a part of his journey in this life. And I know that I deserve that person who can really appreciate my love and respect for him.


If I have manipulated another person's emotions and deceived them to satisfy my short-term egocentric desires, I know deep down that I am guilty of my actions. The best way to forgive myself is to simply admit that I made a mistake because of my own fears and low self-esteem. The best solution now would be to work on my self-esteem, self-respect, so that I can respect another person in the same way that I respect myself. Forgiving yourself means accepting, but not ignoring. Working on yourself will free you from guilt and awaken in you courage, courage and self-esteem.


If it happens in the future that at some point in your life you cross paths with the same person who hurt you, you can clearly see him/her free and he/she also releases his/her burden of guilt for you, also you consciously acknowledge that the trauma was necessary for inner awareness and has respect and gratitude to his soul for your awareness. This is part of our spiritual journey.


To forgive is to make the world a better place, both inside and out.


happy forgiveness))

 
 
 

1 Comment


Vaishali K
Jun 29, 2025

Great blog post! I learnt forgiveness after going through a painful period. I wished I could have practised it regularly before.

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