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Imagine that you have a separate ring of keys that unlock the secrets to your individual health issues. These are invisible keys that have been given to you at birth and that you have been instructed to use often and not to lose. You have also been instructed that the keys open a labyrinth of rooms and each lock is very simply designed and can easily open, but there are no shortcuts to opening the doors. Only the keys open the doors.
The key of forgiveness is a special one and is actually one of the master keys. You have this key in your possession at all times. This key of forgiveness is meant to give forward movement in our lives and if we misplace this key or allow it to rust from lack of use we are like an overstuffed garbage can that is attracting those unwanted critters.
We are full of negative emotions, past traumas, resentment, anger, fear and many other destructive patterns that have been locked inside our bodies. These issues begin early in our lives and they are the building blocks to our individual labyrinth. Not one of us has the same experience or reaction to a situation and when we respond by stuffing things down or by ignoring issues we are locking another door to another room. We are unnecessarily expanding the labyrinth.
Our bodies are not meant to keep all of our issues locked up inside to the point of explosion. If we keep holding in our tears from pent up emotions; sadness, fear, anger, resentment we are not conducting proper maintenance. The signs of wear begin to show outwardly if we aren’t vigilant about forgiveness maintenance. The signs could be cancer, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, frozen shoulder is a common one and numerous other maladies the plague the body.
Each cell where the issue is stored is a room in the labyrinth and can easily be unlocked by the forgiveness key. One caution about forgiveness is that forgiving the person or situation once may not going to get the door unlocked right away. Continual forgiveness of the issue/person is like using WD40 to get the lock to open. The second caution is that once the lock opens it doesn“t mean that the door will open because more forgiveness is needed. The third caution is that once you have the door open it doesn’t always mean that the issue is relieved or we have begun to heal from it. Because maybe there are other doors inside the room and the room could need to be cleaned out before you can get to those doors. I think you see my point. But if not then let me briefly say that continual forgiveness is necessary to allow the body to rid itself of the issue and truly move toward improving your life.
A 71 year old female client came to me recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her family wanted to help her immediately upon discovering that she had cancer throughout her body (this is her 3rd episode) and sought an alternative before the oncologist was going to treat her. She sat in my office and looked worn and very ill and the first word I said to her was forgiveness. She began crying and cried for the entire session. She knew exactly what and who and which incidents she needed to work on with forgiveness. After the first few sessions she looks years younger, is able to do more, has no pain, and has exclaimed that there is no way she will let cancer take her life. She has been a pillar of forgiveness in that she is so extremely willing to let go and forgive that the labyrinth and those locked doors are more easily opening each and every day. She has said that she is no longer the same person and gets stronger each day. She is no longer abrasive and has more compassion and forgiveness of others faults.
In all the self-help books that I’ve read over the past 20 years each one mentions the benefits of forgiveness. It seems that I have read hundreds and often it is a mere mention but there are a few that expand on the astounding effects forgiveness has on our lives. The one thing that each seems to be missing is to be relentless about forgiveness. Persistence or relentlessness in any area will yield results but with forgiveness we truly let go of the old ideas, misconceptions, hatreds, anger, fear, etc., allowing the new and improved you to shine brighter every day.
Each body has its secrets and many people I have worked with have said “But I already forgave them“. We live in a world of the quick fix, but our bodies took each minute of each year to accumulate each memory, good and bad and the maze of the body and the locked doors cannot be fixed with a pill or a one time session of forgiveness. We must remember that it took our bodies a long time to get to the point that they are at and that it may take it a long time to get back to good health.
That is the reason the ring of keys is entrusted to us. That is the why forgiveness is one of the master keys, so that we CAN and DO get back to good health. Our bodies desire good health and each and every day are working hard to achieve it, so why not begin your day with forgiveness?
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