Self-Forgiveness Guided Meditation By Aine Belton

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1 Self-Forgiveness Guided Meditation By Aine Belton Below is a meditation exercise for forgiving yourself. More is and will be shared about Self-Forgiveness and Forgiveness in general via Global Love Project website posts at: This exercise is offered to help you move beyond intellectualizing about forgiving yourself to more genuinely experiencing it. 1) Relax deeply and enter a meditative state. You may want to use soft meditation music, a guided meditation, or whatever technique works for you, perhaps just centering and breathing until you become deeply relaxed. 2) Gently count down from 5 to 1, imagining yourself going deeper and deeper, becoming more and more relaxed. 3) At the count of one imagine yourself in a place in nature - anywhere that appeals to you. It could be in a meadow or grove, on a hill top, in a valley, or woods, by a stream, or at a beautiful ocean beach. Imagine yourself wherever your heart desires.

2 Start by imagining the sights and the sounds to make this place as real as possible. What surrounds you? Feel the earth beneath your feet, smell the air, feel the gentle wind on your face, hear the call of bird, the rustle of leaves, etc. 4) In this place you find a mirror - a long standing mirror that for some reason just happens to be there in this place in nature. You turn to find it there, or perhaps it appears out of nowhere. It is the mirror of forgiveness. 5) You walk up to this mirror and see there on the other side is the 'you' you want to forgive. This 'you' may appear very different. They may appear quite ugly, animal or monster-like even, or perhaps they appear very wounded, or afraid, or hurting. Just allow this 'you' to appear, this you that you are going to forgive, in whatever form that is. Let those shadow parts appear in this 'you' that may even shift-shape before your eyes. Look at this you, or perhaps parts of you to forgive that have manifested in the form of this being before you in the mirror. You may feel a sadness, a sorrow, and perhaps a great compassion for this being in the mirror that is warped through its own suffering and twisted

3 perceptions of self and reality, and its separation from love. 6) Get in touch with the love and compassion you feel for this you or these parts of you showing up in the being in the mirror, and the unconditional love you have for your less-than-pretty sides, your darkness, and that which you dislike about yourself, seeing the wounding behind that, seeing the innocence lost somewhere in the core of this being before you. As you feel this love you feel your heart open. 7) Holding your hands out in front of your heart you pour this light of compassion that streams from your heart, as a violet light of forgiveness, that may also stream down your arms and out of your hands, forming a sphere of violet purple light above your hands in front of your heart. If you a struggling with feeling this love and compassion, imagine that it flows in from the divine above you down through the crown of your head, down through your arms and hands and heart, and out into the space above your hands to form a sphere of violet light. 8) This sphere of violet light is your offering of forgiveness. When you sense this sphere of purple light tangibly there, seeing it with your inner-eyes if you can (but don't worry if visualization isn't your thing, just get

4 a sense and a knowing it is there), you gently throw this sphere into the air and into the mirror in an arc to land on the other side onto the you that you are wanting to forgive. 9) You see this violet light covers and envelopes this you inside the mirror, until they glow with a beautiful iridescent violet light. As this light encases them they being to transform, magically, beautifully, into the being of light they truly are - YOU truly are. 10) You then step into the mirror to embrace this being of light and are also enveloped in the violet light. The two of you merge to become one. You feel a beautiful love and a wonderful sense of wholeness and completion, and a sense of joy. 11) You then step back through the mirror to your place in nature where you began, feeling totally renewed and transformed, filled with love and light, knowing something is very different, healed, alive, awake. 12) When you are ready you count yourself back from 1-5 and open your eyes. I have broken this meditation down into 12 steps, but it is actually quite a short and simple meditation process.

5 If you read it through a few times you will get a sense of it, and you can then practice it as a guided journey. Don't worry if you get it totally right or do it perfectly that s not the point. Love yourself enough to do it imperfectly, but with loving intention and a willingness to forgive yourself. Perhaps you do it slightly differently, that's totally fine, do whatever works for you. It is always the intention that counts and is most powerful. You can also record the steps with a voice recorder or via your laptop or PC or phone and then guide yourself through the meditation. Whatever works for you! To commit to the meditation, how about setting a time and date that you will do this meditation exercise Don t make it a 'should do' though. It is a beautiful choice and an act of love for yourself. Much love, Aine Belton