When you learn to forgive. "you will learn to live"

Many believe that staying angry, clinging to rancor is synonymous with power, energy and domination. But in reality, the only thing they discover are feelings of helplessness, disappointment, insecurity, affliction or fear and they often use them to replace feelings of true personal power.

The decisions we make and the things we believe are possible will all be influenced by the ways we have not forgiven. As we learn to forgive the energy that was going to sad thoughts and feelings, it gets free and can flow to create the life we want instead of limiting us, or creating more suffering.

When you forgive, you become a better husband or wife, you become a better student or teacher, you become a better employer or employee and you become a better father or son. When you forgive, you are more open to success in a way that is meaningful to you. When you learn to forgive, what seemed impossible will not only become possible, but may even become easily attainable.

If you are a religious or spiritual person then learning practical ways to forgive will improve and deepen your experience of your religion or spiritual practice. It will help you to free yourself from the guilt of not being as good as you feel you should be, since it will help you to be the kind of person you would like to be.

Practicing forgiveness strengthens the goodness inside you so that you are more active in your life. You, naturally, feel less inclined to do the things you know you should not do, but you have not been able to stop yourself from doing them. You're going to start doing more of the things you know you should do, but you have not been able to get yourself to do.

Forgiveness is immensely practical and useful. There is nothing lazy, or impractical about it. Forgiveness frees you. As you learn to forgive, many problems, possibly even health problems will gradually disappear. It will be as if you could see your life from above and could see the easiest way to get where you want to be. Life opens up in front of you. New opportunities will emerge from nowhere. Happy coincidences will occur where you meet the right person at the right time. The ideas or the answers will come to you as you need them. A friend can make a comment, or you open a book or magazine, or you can listen to a conversation that gives you exactly what you were looking for. Why is this like this? It is because through the practice of forgiveness you become more open to the goodness of life, so that goodness is more able to find your way to you. I tell you my partner, who lived my life full of problems and frustrations before learning to forgive.