Forgiveness IS a Conscious Choice + Guided Meditation| The WISDOM podcast | S2 E17

<p style="text-align:center;"></p> <p style="text-align:center;">Forgiveness IS a Conscious Choice</p> Season 2 Episode 17 of The WISDOM podcast with Dorothy Ratusny <p> </p> <p style="text-align:center;">TIMESTAMPS:</p> <p style="text-align:center;">Podcast Intro:  0-1:33  |  An Introduction to this Episode: Part Four in a Series of Six of Beautiful Guided Meditations: 1:14 |  How Forgiveness Liberates You:  4:26  |  A Prose Meditation on Forgiveness:  6:08  | Podcast Outro: 28:07 </p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:center;"></p> <p style="text-align:center;"> </p> <p style="text-align:left;">In this part four of a six-part series of beautiful guided meditations, we journey into forgiveness; we allow it to be a conscious and deliberate choice that frees us from suffering.</p> <p>Forgiveness ignites the heart to heal the body because when we forgive our self and others, we clear our need for incessant thought, thought that is mired in angst; thought that holds contempt, induces sadness and despair; thought that invokes a nervous response and the bearing of inner turmoil that immobilizes our ability to function.  </p> <p>Forgiveness is freeing.  Be clear; it is not about agreement but rather acceptance.  We will be in agreement with some of our past actions or the words and actions of others, but you can acknowledge that you are not choosing to repeat this. Acceptance allows you to find your way into change; into surrender for what you may not change, but to acknowledge that what you choose in this moment is different.</p> <p> </p> <p>We need forgiveness to thrive; to allow old habits, mistakes, even intentional wrong doings a place to die; to be released from our ether.  Forgiveness reminds us of our ability to shed the past, not carry it; to no longer judge another or ourselves on who we were yesterday, last month or 17 years earlier.  Yes, some people do repeat the same behaviours and continue to hold the same limiting beliefs, but you have a choice.  </p> <p> </p> <p>We all can choose to acknowled