If you prefer listening, click here...<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://soundcloud.com/tappingintoit/audio-blog-forgive-yourself">Audio Blog - Forgive yourself from the past and MOVE into the future!</a>Have you ever noticed yourself holding on to past mistakes long after they’ve occurred? Some of us hold on to things for years and blame ourselves for them relentlessly. We reject who we are and do not allow ourselves to find forgiveness.&nbsp;If this sounds like you, know you can change this.This time of year is a wonderful time to think about bringing forgiveness into your past and owning what happened differently. The process of forgiveness might not happen overnight but with self-love actions, it will happen, the journey is different for everyone. But no matter how long it takes, hope and healing is waiting for you.&nbsp;I want to share a personal story with you about how my intuition led me to share my experiences with someone unexpected and brought me into a new perspective where I could find forgiveness for myself and, to my surprise, one of the most different relationships of my life, the one with my FATHER.Years back, around my birthday, Deepak Chopra came to my hometown for a speaking engagement. My Dad had just passed only weeks before, and I felt a strong sense of urgency to go. The decision to follow my intuitive guidance ended up being an incredible gift&nbsp;during&nbsp;my time of grief. It also led me to a transformational release with my father from our painfully turbulent relationship and a new&nbsp;understanding of&nbsp;the terrible&nbsp;sadness I had in my heart from watching my Dad's horrific last years of life.&nbsp;I couldn’t explain why because it was so out of character for me, but I knew I needed to talk to Deepak. Why him? I can easily explain now, years later, my inner guidance pushed me to take the action to speak with him after the event because what I found in this man was a compassionate spirit that nourished my soul with his wisdom, which I deeply needed at that moment. I also received the safety of someone strong enough to hear my story with&nbsp;a powerful presence.&nbsp;My friends and I waited in a book signing lineup, everyone with books in hand to be signed, and I with only my sadness and my story. My turn approaches, and I walk up to Deepak, kneeling next to him, tears suddenly filling my eyes and say, “Deepak, I’m so happy to meet you. You have had a positive impact on my life. Thank you for all you do for humanity. I have no book to sign, but I have a story to share with you about my father and his suffering. I’m following my intuitive heart in coming to you; it has been pushing me to come here and meet you and tell you about my father, Fred, who passed away a few weeks ago.” He looked at me and replied, “Of course, share your story.” Even though there was a long line behind me, I could feel him become ever-present with me, time suspended, and everything around me became nonexistent except for this life-changing moment of sharing my pain with Deepak.&nbsp;I tell him my story: "My Dad and I had a volatile relationship. We agreed on nothing. For years, I fought with him to better take care of his health and to improve his life. He always managed to shut me down with blame, shame, guilt, down-right rudeness, anything to get me to stop talking about the truth of his life. I knew he was physically and emotionally suffering so much, and I just did my level best to love him as much as I could under the circumstances of our challenging relationship.My life has been riddled with adversity and struggle, self-imposed and not self-imposed. Abuse has run through my life in many forms, so I understood the horrible pain of addiction that my father had to suffer and the pain of not being able to succeed in my self-care. I knew what that was like; I learned it and lived it like my father and our ancestors. I had been given a miracle and wanted to give it to my fathers to make it easier for him, but as I found out, that’s not how it works.My father suffered from self-hate and not good enough feelings, which led to his obesity, which he died at the age of 77. I couldn’t help him; I tried so hard and tried no matter what. I loved him. It was my greatest pain to watch him slowly kill himself with the comfort he got from overindulgence in food. It was so very sad."Deepak held my heart in his heart for this brief moment, and he shared my sadness.With intent in his eyes, he spoke with me soul and soul,&nbsp; I was swept away by his words of compassion and his offering of spiritual love filling me up with peace from his deep understanding of my story. He shared his research on obesity and gave me such unconditional&nbsp;love and wisdom. As you see in the photo, he is writing on a paper; he gave me a contact to help me give back to the world on obesity. He told me to do something better for mankind related to obesity, to help the world and give my father’s story meaning would help others. So that is what I have done since and will continue to do whenever possible.I walked away better, more whole, and I felt supported in a sacred way.I realized that I had to accept the past and what happened between my father and me, and he, with himself, had to remain there in the past. I had done everything in my power to amend my past mistakes with my father, but I couldn’t take his pain away. He had to forgive himself and find it in his heart to forgive what was hurting his heart and Soul. He needed to find his amends.&nbsp;It was time to turn the page on my guilt and self-blame about the feeling that somehow I was responsible for changing my father’s self-hatred and his limiting beliefs. I knew at that moment those events in his life were not mine to bear anymore, but they were part of his story. I had to turn to forgiveness and allow the experiences I had with my father to be contributors to making me who I am TODAY.I had to forgive myself for blaming my heart for his life. I wasn’t responsible anymore for his life, but I could forgive him for his choices and for his decisions. I could become grateful for my life experiences with him which in turn would help me move on and truly forgive myself and him bringing us both peace.As I speak of forgiveness, I want you to think of your story and what's happened to you. Are there areas of your life that you blame yourself for and refuse to forgive yourself for? Write them down and permit yourself to forgive yourself for them. Explore their meaning and how they have impacted you, and then begin your healing journey.I felt compelled to share this experience with you, hoping you think of your life and your need to forgive too. You are more important than the past mistakes you might have made, and I promise you, you are so worth the time and effort.&nbsp;Forgiveness is a choice and an action that we must give to move forward. I have a meditation to help you start the journey.Listen to it here<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://soundcloud.com/tappingintoit/forgivess-meditation?si=a7ec937b63cd4bf0899d36132c0a6b7d&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing">, meditate on Forgiveness,</a> and start your healing journey.&nbsp;Soulfully yours,Lisa&nbsp;

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