Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a powerful act of releasing resentment, anger, or blame—whether toward yourself or others. It’s not about condoning what happened, but about freeing your own heart from the burden of pain.

Here are a few reflections on forgiveness:

• Forgiveness is for you. Holding onto pain can become a poison. Forgiving doesn’t mean you forget—it means you choose peace over bitterness.

• It’s a process. Forgiveness doesn’t always happen in one moment. It can be a daily decision, like peeling back layers of an old wound.

• Self-forgiveness is just as important. Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves. But we’re all learning and growing, and you deserve compassion too.

Absolutely. Let’s go deeper into the concept of forgiveness—emotionally, spiritually, and psychologically.

What Is Forgiveness, Really?

At its core, forgiveness is the conscious decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward someone (or yourself), regardless of whether they “deserve” it. It’s not forgetting or excusing harm. It’s choosing freedom over carrying emotional pain.

Types of Forgiveness

1. Forgiving Others:

For actions that hurt, betrayed, or disappointed you. This doesn’t mean reconciling or inviting that person back into your life—it simply means you’re choosing not to be emotionally bound by the past.

2. Self-Forgiveness:

When we hold guilt or shame for past choices, we block our own healing. Self-forgiveness is acknowledging the pain caused, learning from it, and giving yourself permission to move forward.

3. Spiritual Forgiveness:

Often involves surrendering judgment to a higher power—recognizing that everyone is on their own journey, and that healing is a spiritual path as much as a personal one.

Why Forgive?

• Emotional freedom: Letting go of resentment reduces anxiety, depression, and anger.

• Health benefits: Research shows forgiveness can lower blood pressure, improve heart health, and reduce chronic stress.

• Spiritual growth: Forgiveness opens the heart, expands compassion, and raises your vibrational energy.

What Forgiveness Is Not

• It’s not condoning harmful behavior.

• It’s not forgetting or pretending it didn’t hurt.

• It’s not weakness. It takes great strength to forgive.

• It’s not the same as reconciliation. You can forgive without ever speaking to the person again.

How to Begin the Forgiveness Process

1. Acknowledge the pain – Don’t bury it. Feel it fully.

2. Understand the impact – What did this situation teach you?

3. Release blame – This doesn’t mean excusing. It means you’re no longer willing to carry the poison.

4. Empathize if you can – This step is optional but powerful. Understanding the pain or ignorance behind someone’s action can help you see the bigger picture.

5. Decide to forgive – You don’t have to feel ready. Just being willing opens the door.

6. Practice letting go—over and over – Forgiveness is often not a one-time event, but a daily practice.

Combining Reiki and Shamanic healing for forgiveness work creates a deep, multidimensional process that helps release energetic imprints of pain—across emotional, spiritual, and even ancestral layers.

Here’s a breakdown of how to work with Reiki + Shamanic healing for forgiveness:

1. Set Sacred Space

Begin by creating a healing environment. This can be a physical space with crystals, smudge (sage, palo santo), candlelight, and calming music—or simply a quiet, intentional moment with your hands over your heart.

Call in spiritual allies such as:

• Reiki guides and symbols (especially the Mental/Emotional symbol, Sei He Ki)

• Archangel Metatron for karmic healing and sacred geometry

• Shamanic helpers: power animals, spirit guides, ancestors, or Earth spirits

2. Intentional Grounding & Breathwork

• Breathe into your root chakra. Imagine a cord going deep into the Earth.

• Invite Reiki energy to flow through you.

• Use a shamanic drumbeat (live or audio) to deepen your connection to the spiritual realms.

Say aloud or silently:

“I open to the guidance and healing of Reiki and Spirit. I am ready to release what no longer serves.”

3. Journey to the Heart of Forgiveness

Option A: Reiki Hand Positioning + Visualization

• Place one hand over your heart, the other over your solar plexus.

• Activate Sei He Ki for emotional healing.

• Visualize the person (or yourself) you need to forgive.

• Let Reiki energy flow to that image. Wrap it in golden light.

• Say:

“I release you. I free myself. We are both healed and whole.”

Option B: Shamanic Journey

• Using a drumbeat or rhythmic breath, visualize traveling through a forest or cave.

• Meet your power animal or guide and ask:

“What must I see to forgive?” or “What part of my soul is ready to return?”

• Allow the journey to unfold. You might receive symbols, memories, or visions.

• Invite soul retrieval or energetic release if you feel part of you has been trapped in that pain.

4. Cord Cutting and Energy Clearing

• Use Reiki (especially Cho Ku Rei) to scan your aura.

• In Shamanic practice, imagine cutting energetic cords with a crystal blade or calling a fire spirit to burn away lingering attachments.

• Say:

“I cut and release all cords of pain and resentment. I claim my energy back now.”

5. Integration and Gratitude

• Thank your guides and Reiki energy.

• Journal about what you experienced.

• Drink water and rest to ground the healing.

Optional Support Tools

• Crystals: Rose quartz (self-love), black tourmaline (release), amethyst (spiritual transmutation)

• Sacred Geometry: Visualize the Metatron’s Cube clearing karmic patterns and transmuting pain into light

• Affirmation:

“I am free. I am whole. I forgive to heal, not to forget. I choose peace.”

Here’s a closing statement you can use to complete your Reiki-Shamanic forgiveness ritual, sealing the healing and honoring your journey:

Closing Statement:

“I honor the pain I have carried and the strength it took to face it.

I release all that no longer serves me, with compassion and love.

May all beings involved be healed, uplifted, and set free.

I reclaim my power, my peace, and my light.

With gratitude to Spirit, my guides, and the healing forces within and around me,

this work is complete.

So it is. And so it shall be.”

Let this be a return to wholeness, not just a release. You did something powerful.