Day 315 - A Year to Clear - Check In WEEK 45 - Forgiving

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Lesson 315: Check In WEEK 45 - Forgiving

Forgiveness is a difficult challenge for some of us. It can make us uneasy because as I see it, it’s almost like giving up your power. If you hold onto an upsetting situation, you are letting that dictate how you act and how it holds over others. By surrendering, it’s giving away something that dictated your life for so long. When you think about forgiving, why do you think you hold onto the situation? How do you think you’d feel by just letting it go? Do you feel like you need to be right and have justice served? Today we are to write out and say out loud one thing that you are ready to forgive in yourself. See how you feel after. My sentence is:

• I am now ready to forgive myself for my mistakes as I am only human.

I feel like it’s an acceptance of self and all that is encompassed for the learnings in life.

Day 314 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Our Dreams Do Not Arrive...

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Lesson 314: Our Dreams Do Not Arrive...

In today’s lesson, we are being taught that dreams aren’t always just to inform us. They are what makes our life as they are us whether we are in a sleeping state or waking state. If we think about last night’s sleep, how was it for you? And as part of these lessons, are you finding that you are having more vivid dreams.

I can safely say that I have not been having more vivid dreams lately. Sometimes I even ask for dreams and get none. I feel like my sleep is getting better. I was having a period of shit sleep, but that was understandable as I had more stress on my mind, due to being made redundant. I think when you have troubling times, even if you’re not thinking about it before you go to bed, can have impact on your sleep for sure. I will see how my week goes and see if more vivid dreams come about. Right now, all I can ask is to be shown more in my life.

Day 314 - A Year to Clear - Forgiveness Frees

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Lesson 314: Forgiveness Frees

“The universe will deal with that person’s Karma. You don’t have to worry that if you ‘forgive them’ that they’re going to somehow live a deserved wonderful life. . .It is not just to make their day better, it is to free you.”

— Marianne Williamson

Today we are to consider this quote.

For me it has powerful impact. It’s about surrendering to the Universe and let it do its thing. Forgiveness is about letting go of the outcome. It’s about knowing that no matter what happens with you or someone you are forgiving, that it doesn’t matter as you are not allowing it to have hold on your life any longer. It’s about changing your narrative. Your life continues just the way it is without having the set back of looming thoughts about a situation that clouds your mind. If it doesn’t impact your life, then a question you have to ask yourself is “why not let it go?”. I think everyone is strong enough to let go and control the freedom they can create in their life. We are the makers of our own story. Why live your life bound by something that can hold you back? When you can free yourself and another from upsetting situations or emotions. There would be nothing holding you back when you surrender in this way.

Day 313 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - The Sleeping Dream...

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Lesson 313: The Sleeping Dream...

… and the waking dream are all as One. If we are one with the Universe with no separation of the layers within the Universe, all dreaming states are interweaved with each other are actually part of the One. Today we are to think about where we go when we sleep. It’s about recognising that we are all part of the Universe no matter what state we are in.

I sometimes don’t dream during sleep. In those states, I honestly believe my mind and body need rest and doesn’t want to feed my mind with anything that I may need to focus on.

On other occasions, I have vivid dreams and they are mostly related to what’s going on in my life. I believe I go to another plane or room in my mind, and the dreams are about letting answers come to me that need to be answered. Sometimes they aren’t direct answers but cryptic clues within the dream.

I can’t say I have any dreams of aspirations, or it’s just that I don’t remember them! I am currently trying to build the life I want to live, so I feel like having clues or future visions through my dreams might influence how I make my decisions, when I want to make those decisions in the now.

I would love to open myself up to more dreams though. I think most of the time my mind and body wants rest so I think my mind goes to a void, so that it isn’t being worked during a dream state. I guess in this way, being in a void is like being in the void of the Universe.

Day 313 - A Year to Clear - Forgive Someone or Something

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Lesson 313: Forgive Someone or Something

Today we are to finish the following sentences in order to detach. Forgiveness is something to master in your life. There is much love you can gain and open up for yourself, if you learn to let things go. Sometimes situations are not going to pan ou the way you want them to, sometimes people don’t change or just simply wishing ill thoughts towards someone is a waste of your energy. We are to breathe in this exercise daily and see the change happen in your life.

The sentences to complete:

• Someone or something I am ready to forgive is______

• Something in myself that I'm ready to forgive is______

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My answers:

• Someone or something I am ready to forgive is a situation that happened to me where I felt wronged by certain people in my life.

• Something in myself that I'm ready to forgive is my obsessive nature when I take on new experiences.

What are some things you can forgive in your life?