An Exercise For Forgiveness

[sage]

SG and Water....yes, it is so hard to see these attributes in myself. I mentioned that I used my mother in my exercise...and it was difficult to see myself as self-centered, withholding of love and acceptance, selfish, judgemental...the real shocker was "stuck in the past".

Please move onto the rest of the steps quickly! The exercises aren't supposed to mire you in guilt and shame...but to encourage compassion for the other AND for yourself. The feeling being, I suppose, that when we are able to see that these traits are somewhat "universal" that forgiveness is more readily reached.

I mentioned in my earlier post that I DID get stuck when trying to take the NEXT STEP because even though I felt REAL compassion for my mother's emotional state, I STILL felt as though her actions were not understandable...more work for ME, I suppose...to remind myself that my actions, too, are often out of context with the actual situation.

Sage