JOY #5 - FORGIVENESS
In these Joy blogs we have been starting below in the survival energy centers and wending our way up to the transcendent, and transformational ones above.
Rev. Nachman taught that "
joy was not incidental to our spiritual practice but vital"
but few of us on the path seek out joy seriously or we look for it in the wrong places.
Joy, once fully attained, is right at the "top"of the hierarchy of chakras because it is a combination of finding balance in all the key energy polarities that govern our chakras or the Sephirot of the Tree of Life. So we must ...
The Ancestors
Forgiveness (and Gratitude) are part of the heart chakra (Gratitude is also the throat or 5th chakra of expression.)
Joy should be a property of all that those centers we have discussed and will discuss and eventually culminate right at the top along with wisdom.
The heart must open to Forgiveness (and gratitude - in the next blog) before we can get there.
The blog on Joy is rather about bringing all the various energy centers together in balance as a gestalt to finding more happiness and equanimity in our lives.
... the soul that "weighs"suffers harm. Talmud
Without Forgiveness it will be difficult to truly find the serenity we desire to go forward. Ancient wisdom has shown and now neuroscience is proving that forgiveness may be vitally important for the one doing the forgiving not just the one who is being forgiven.
Forgiveness increases the immune system and our T cell counts. AIDS patients who forgave the person that transmitted the virus live longer than those who have not.
Cynicism that goes along with JUDGMENT
- as in the T.O.L's. triad of
- JUDGMENT - LOVE - MERCY -
decreases our T cells and immune system. Guilt, shame and lack of self-forgiveness (self-condemnation) can increase our pro-inflammatory factors leading to some auto-immune disorders, some cancers and atherosclerosis.
Forgiveness of self and others is healthful!
For many more reasons than can be discussed here it should also include our loved ones who have abused us before they cross over to the other side. Forgiveness can be given once someone has passed on but it often requires special help by another skilled in this spiritual arena. The dead can hang around the living wanting to be released from their karmic sins for which they are now being held accountable. Their intrusive energies - intentionally or not - get in the way of the flow of our life force. If not forgiven by the victim, when they reincarnate, it will be back into a similar predicament that they had in the previous life. This will enable them, hopefully, to have another chance to rise above doing the harm they did previously. Forgiveness can absolve them from the calamity of having to go back rather than forward into a better reincarnation.
There should be no skeletons or unfinished business in the family closet that are not reconciled before death. Reconciliation does not mean we have to have any ongoing relationship with the perpetrator. It's more for us than for them and its best to do this sooner rather than later, if for nothing else but Joy's sake.
In the words of the African American spiritual song;
"I'm gonna lay down my burden down by the riverside, don't wanna study war no more."
We all need to take any "albatross" requiring forgiveness, hanging around, off of our necks.
The Ancestors
Rev. Nachman taught that "
joy was not incidental to our spiritual practice but vital"
but few of us on the path seek out joy seriously or we look for it in the wrong places.
Joy, once fully attained, is right at the "top"of the hierarchy of chakras because it is a combination of finding balance in all the key energy polarities that govern our chakras or the Sephirot of the Tree of Life. So we must ...
The Ancestors
Forgiveness (and Gratitude) are part of the heart chakra (Gratitude is also the throat or 5th chakra of expression.)
Joy should be a property of all that those centers we have discussed and will discuss and eventually culminate right at the top along with wisdom.
The heart must open to Forgiveness (and gratitude - in the next blog) before we can get there.
... the soul that "weighs"suffers harm. Talmud
Without Forgiveness it will be difficult to truly find the serenity we desire to go forward. Ancient wisdom has shown and now neuroscience is proving that forgiveness may be vitally important for the one doing the forgiving not just the one who is being forgiven.
Forgiveness increases the immune system and our T cell counts. AIDS patients who forgave the person that transmitted the virus live longer than those who have not.
Cynicism that goes along with JUDGMENT
- as in the T.O.L's. triad of
- JUDGMENT - LOVE - MERCY -
decreases our T cells and immune system. Guilt, shame and lack of self-forgiveness (self-condemnation) can increase our pro-inflammatory factors leading to some auto-immune disorders, some cancers and atherosclerosis.
Forgiveness of self and others is healthful!
There should be no skeletons or unfinished business in the family closet that are not reconciled before death. Reconciliation does not mean we have to have any ongoing relationship with the perpetrator. It's more for us than for them and its best to do this sooner rather than later, if for nothing else but Joy's sake.
In the words of the African American spiritual song;
"I'm gonna lay down my burden down by the riverside, don't wanna study war no more."
We all need to take any "albatross" requiring forgiveness, hanging around, off of our necks.
Forgiveness also implies that we should ask for forgiveness when we have wronged. Once we have done this. whether positively accepted or not, we are able to return to our higher Selves.
The Ancestors
It is critical for us to forgive ourselves for anything we may have done and have U.S.A. - Universal Self Acceptance or an unconditional positive regard, not only for others but for ourselves.
It is critical for us to forgive ourselves for anything we may have done and have U.S.A. - Universal Self Acceptance or an unconditional positive regard, not only for others but for ourselves.
The Ancestors
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