When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
- There are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness.
- For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice.
- For others it may be nonreligious practice.
- What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take seriously our responsibility for each other…
Human suffering is boundless. But by devoting some of your time and energy to helping other individuals, you can make a difference that may translate into increased inner happiness and peace, and therefore into improved health.
- As a happier, healthier, and more peaceful individual, you will naturally stimulate those qualities in people around you.
Re-source: Relieve
By forgiving, you can lessen your own emotional pain and experience increased inner peace, no matter what the response of the other person.
It is possible to practice forgiveness toward persons who are unreachable or even deceased, because you still carry them in your memory and your heart, and can enter into an inner dialogue with them.
- Begin by slowly bringing into your mind into your heart, the image of someone for whom you have some resentment.
- Gently allow a picture, a feeling, or a sense of them to gather there.
- Gently now invite them into your heart just for this moment.
- Notice whatever fear or anger may arise to limit or deny their entrance and soften gently all about it.
- No force.
- Silently in your heart say to this person, “I forgive you.”
- Open to a sense of their presence and say, “I forgive you for whatever pain you may have caused me in the past, intentionally or unintentionally, through your words, your thoughts, your actions.
- However you may have caused me pain in the past, I forgive you.”
- Let go of those walls, those curtains of resentment, so that your heart may be free. So that your life may be lighter.
- “I forgive you for whatever you may have done that cause me pain, intentionally or unintentionally, through your actions, through your words, even through your thoughts, through whatever you did. Through whatever you didn’t do.
- However the pain came to me through you, I forgive you. I forgive you.
craving and resource from “8 Weeks to Optimum Health” by Andrew Weil, M.D.
