The Experience of Forgiveness

By Tony Samsara

It’s very difficult to forgive if what created this space where there is no forgiveness, is still there.  Einstein said that we can’t solve a problem on the level on which it was created in the first place, that we have to go beyond it.  Energetically this means that we have to move to a higher dimension.  Practically it means that we have to change within ourselves the cause of any problem, which is usually a contraction of your heart.

If you’re upset, unhappy, lacking in love or lacking in compassion, the tendency is to contract and to come back into the ego or selfish aspect of who you are. This space of contraction is actually moving away from our human heart, our deepest divine aspect. Focusing on an issue, problem, or process, doesn’t actually in the end, resolve anything.  Nothing is resolved through being attached to the negative aspects of the space that we have created in that moment – the space where there is no forgiveness.  From that space, it’s very difficult to see the big picture.

One major human trait is to focus on negativity.  It is so easy for that negativity, whether it be emotional, physical, mental, or energetic, to draw us into itself and into the energy or circle which I call karma. It can be difficult to find a space free from the karma of that negative moment, so that we can transcend and move beyond the mundane.

When we let go, rather than contracting into this space which sucks the energy of our creativity, of our sense of well being, we can expand into a space where the opposite happens, a space where we can laugh in joy or in happiness. When we let go of judgment and simply relax, our bodies become much more expansive!

Expansion is an experience. Feel what it’s like to expand. Feel what it’s like to expand into that space where the anger, the frustration, the irritation, now has a space to be honoured. So instead of contracting, you expand. You can only expand when you relax, when you breathe in, when you are detached from the mundane, and totally embracing the expansion.

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