Forgiveness -- Is It Just A Memory of the Pain and Hurt?

Abraham Hicks says: We have to say to you that forgiveness doesn't fit in very well with the art of allowing, because you've got to dig up what you're forgiving.

Why waste your time thinking about all the hurt? The strange thing about forgiveness - it doesn't have to be this way, but it often is - is that, when you hear people talking about forgiveness they're usually talking about what they're forgiving. 'Oh yeah, it's a terrible thing she did to me. [and with mock anger...] But I forgive her.' [laughter] And what happens is anything that you give your attention to activates in your vibration. So if something has hurt you, and you are working to forgive it, you are activating.

Forgiveness is almost exactly the same, in fact would we say it is exactly the same, as saying 'I'm going to deactivate this thing that hurt me'. And we would say the reason that it doesn't go very far and the reason that people struggle so hard with the idea of forgiveness is because they keep digging up the stuff they don't want and keeping it active in their vibration so that they have a stream of people they have to forgive. They forgave their mother for what she did and kept it alive and then they had to forgive this lover and this lover and this lover and this lover. And every day it's an eternal quest to forgive. And we say why not just let it go and activate something that doesn't need forgiving.

Any person is like a microcosm of the Universe. They have within them things that you adore and things that you would rather not see.

And if you are forgiving some of the stuff you don't want to see you are keeping it active so it becomes a bigger part of the personality that that person is giving to you. But if you ignore that by activating the things that you appreciate, oh that's a whole other thing.

So we would give forgiveness a new definition.

"We would say the ultimate way of forgiving is really forgetting. And the ultimate way of forgetting really is by remembering something you want to remember."

Albuquerque, New Mexico - Sept. 2, 2002.