5 Steps To Forgiveness

Learn to forgive in order to free yourself from negative feelings and to go your own way!

Forgiveness is often a difficult endeavor. When you leave the pain behind, your wounds can heal and your soul no longer has to endure the burden of damage.

It is enough to endure the pain once, leave it behind. What’s the point of lugging this around with you? Do not think again and again about the pain inflicted on you and the suffering caused, get rid of it and look ahead.

In today’s post you will find 5 ways to give forgiveness to move forward on your life path. You need courage, love and understanding for this.

1. Realize that the lack of forgiveness is affecting your life

Accept and understand that someone has hurt you and that you suffer from it. Choose forgiveness, you deserve it. It’s not about the person who harmed you, it’s just yourself.

Pain causes bad mood, resentment, and resentment. You should learn how to manage your feelings so that forgiveness will be honest and real. This is the only way to take the pressure off yourself.

Keep calm so that you can better deal with anger and stress. Think of things that will help you find peace of mind, such as a loved one or an uplifting landscape. Replace negative images with positive ones.

Do n’t deny the situation, try to face it. You can only be hurt if you let it happen. Leave emotional burdens in the past and look ahead.

2. Are you sure you still don’t want to forgive?

Thinking about it is a very important step. Analyze and visualize everything thoroughly, then say goodbye to your negative feelings to devote yourself to yourself. 

Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting, because some things cannot and should not be forgotten. However, you should make sure that anger and resentment are not affecting your life.

Forgiveness is not about helping the other person, but about helping yourself. This is necessary to move forward. Only you are responsible for your actions and decisions. Don’t let someone hurt you and then have power over you.

Choose the less painful path. Overcoming hurdles does not mean running into that person again or justifying what happened.

Forgiving means taking power from the person responsible for the suffering so that they can no longer  hurt you, and leaving what happened in the past.

3. Express your feelings

Release your feelings and explain to the person how you are feeling. You don’t have to look her in the face if it hurts you. Don’t forget that you are doing everything for yourself.

Before talking to the person, organize your thoughts, think about what exactly you want to say to them.

Try not to keep anything to yourself until you feel relief. Say why you feel bad or write what you are feeling, whether it is resentment, anger, sadness, etc.

Don’t worry so much about pushing boundaries, but try to express your pain.

You can also write a letter if you find it easier, even if you never send it. The letter is for you to manage your pain, you can save it or burn it. The decision is entirely yours.

You need to realize to yourself that you deserve respect and express negative aspects of the person who hurt you.

4. Accept your mistakes

You harbor destructive emotions because you are unable to forgive: humiliation, rejection and disappointment. Accept these feelings and try to put yourself in the shoes of the person who did you harm.

Sometimes we judge others unaware that we would have acted the same. Empathy can help, but bitterness only destroys you.

Think about whether it is actually worth it or whether you are paying too much attention and energy to the whole thing.

It is not necessary to share values, opinions, attitudes, or feelings, nor do you have to justify them. Learn to understand  that people are much more than just their actions and can be wrong.

5. Overcome the situation

Go on and don’t look back. Know that forgiveness cannot come overnight. It’s a process that takes time. How long this goes is different for everyone.

Only you know how long it will take you to continue on your path and to accept and leave everything that has happened. Do not hold onto negative feelings, free yourself through forgiveness and go your way!