Forgiveness (20 page)

I forgive my mind for thinking my feelings are not

– I F
ORGIVE
M
YSELF FOR
J
UDGING
–

EXAMPLE

I forgive myself for judging what I feel as unimportant.

I forgive myself for judging what I feel as

I forgive myself for judging what I don’t feel as

I forgive myself for judging my feelings as

I forgive myself for not judging my feelings as

– I F
ORGIVE
M
YSELF FOR
B
ELIEVING
–

EXAMPLE

I forgive myself for believing my feelings won’t be heard.

I forgive myself for believing my feelings are

I forgive myself for believing my feelings are not

I forgive myself for believing my feelings always

I forgive myself for believing my feelings never

– T
APPING
S
EQUENCE
–

Review Basic
Tapping Sequence
Guidelines.

1. Review each of the day’s 12 Forgiveness Statements out loud. This will help you identify the specific aspects of the issue that you want to tap on.
   
2. Rate the intensity level of any unforgiveness you hold about today’s topic on a scale of 1 to 10. Write the number down.
   
3. Neutralize all subconscious resistance. Repeat a Reversal Statement 3 times while tapping continuously on the Karate Chop point.
   
4. Focus on the issue you’ll be tapping on. Repeat a Set-Up Statement 3 times while tapping continuously on the Karate Chop point.
   
5. Tap 7 times on each of the 10 meridian points while repeating out loud the key details from the 12 Forgiveness Statements. This process can be modeled on the bonus Tapping Scripts.
   
6. Recheck the intensity level of any unforgiveness you hold about today’s topic. Write the number down. If the level is at 8 or higher, repeat the entire sequence. If the level is less than 8, tap on a Modified Set-Up Statement, then perform the 10-point Tapping Sequence on your 12 Forgiveness Statements until you are at a 0 level of intensity.
   

– REFLECTIONS –

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one who inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

—M
ARIANNE
W
ILLIAMSON

– DAY 8 –

I F
ORGIVE
M
Y
W
EAKNESSES AND
F
AILURES

God has condemned me not. No more do I.

God does not condemn me with His Thoughts about me. Why then would I deny His Thoughts and choose thoughts that condemn me? With my own choice of thoughts I make my reality, my self-perception, my perception of everything that seems to happen to me. I choose everything that I see.

—P
RAYER FOR
A C
OURSE IN
M
IRACLES
W
ORKBOOK
L
ESSON
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– Forgiveness Friend Story by Rev. Lydia Ruiz –

I
n August 1993, his story was reported in the
New York Daily News.
After watching an HBO movie titled
Strapped,
a 15-year-old boy decided to reenact the story in his own life. He went out to Greenwich Village in New York City. He returned home with a heart filled with anxiety. He was unable to pull the trigger. Plan B: he decided to shoot out a window toward a basketball park filled with players. My mother had just returned home after completing a nine-day rosary vigil for a neighbor who had lost her mother. My mother was preparing her dinner when he pulled the trigger.