Ponder, "God Made Us All Equal"

Point to ponder: God made us all equal. The "devil" made us different. Our job as a spiritual student is to resolve all issues that make us seem different, so that we are at Peace with them.

The Power of Positive Imagination

It is of the Holiest of alliances when we use our imagination to see the highest and best in others. This not only frees us from the rebounding effect of our own human judgment, but frees others from the prisons of their self-judgment as well. How can you truly love someone when you are seeing him as being flawed in any way? All spiritual healing is self-healing, first.

To put it in a more practical way, when I become aware of someone with issues, I have to get to the place of experiencing that those "issues" are a lie about the son or daughter of God. However I do this does not matter, and will vary, depending on what state of awareness I happen to be in at the time.

I have recently been working with the methods of the Hawaiian healer, Hew Lin, who had some success healing patients while he was working in a mental hospital. He would hold the "patient" in his mind's eye, and say to him mentally, "I love. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you." He would do this over and over until he felt better about the person, which was his signal that his work was done.

"Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison."
Matthew 5:24-26

It should be noted that any thought or feeling that takes us away from our own peace of mind should be considered as an adversary.

A Selfish Reason for Forgiveness

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to
that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger
than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link
and get free."
Catherine Ponder

Changing Our Devils Into Angels

This world may present pictures of inharmony which are contrary to my standards of good, but when this happens it is my right and my duty to transform the way that I am reacting to them so that I will not be seeing myself as a victim of my circumstances. I recently answered a lady who had a "deep hurt from two years ago" that she had difficulty getting past. She also wanted to know if you could hurt and forgive at the same time.
My answer to her second question was "No, you haven't fully forgiven yourself, or another, until the pain has been transformed into a much higher emotion than what you are experiencing. This is possible, but it will take work on the part of anyone who has yet to forgive. I then shared my own thoughts about how to deal with the hurt so that it wouldn't run her life:

I found that by allowing the energy of the pain to be there, and then changing my self-dialogue from "I hurt," to "Forgive them, they know not what they do," or "I live in a loving, supporting, joyous Universe" (or something similar), has worked wonders for me. If I make a positive affirmation out of the negative, it tends to diffuse the negative energy. I once used this method to forgive someone and it only took about 5 minutes to do, where before, it had been eating at me for months. I had to have the same intensity of my new attitude that I had when I first accepted it, the lie about myself and/or others, as what was really true in the whole situation.

"If we are seeing less than God, we are seeing incorrectly."
Joel S. Goldsmith, 1892-1964, a Christian Mystic and Healer that had a worldwide ministry and wrote over 30 books.

Update:

The hardest part of forgiveness, or anything else that is uncomfortable, is taking that first step. Once that first step is taken it will get easier to do.

Update II

I just ran across this article on forgiveness which coincides with much of my post:
Forgiveness Brings Healing Like Nothing Else

Have You Forgiven Yourself Yet?

Within us all is the Forgiving Power, that which frees us from all limitations and the results of our past decisions, and is keeping our minds focused on undesired events and outcomes, rather than on our own ability to shape our lives in much more fulfilling ways. The only thing that is really weighing us down is our belief that we are being punished for our past mistakes or held down by our present circumstances.

I forgive myself for having accepted limited concepts of myself and others, and for any harm that this may have caused us. I forgive all others for any judgments they may have had towards me, and any harm it may have caused to either of us. "If we would have known better, we would have done better."

From a former post:

One of the biggest obstacles to overcome is guilt from our past. Refuse to accept the unnecessary baggage that would keep you mired in self-destructive patterns of thinking. There are much higher and better ways to transform your life and the conditions you are facing.
January 19, 2011 9:51 PM