Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 1 Issue 12, (1 june 2017) | Page 24

Karma and Forgiveness
How to forgive
By choosing to practice forgiveness frequently, you can cut the fetters
that keep you bound to misery. You can reduce the load of karma, purify
your consciousness and accelerate your ascension and proximity to the
divine. True forgiveness requires fortitude and involves three stages.
Stage 1: Insight
The first and most important stage is the birthing of an insight. You
recognise, discover or notice something new or different about the hurtful
event that you weren’t aware of earlier, and you begin to see the same
experience in a new light.
Case: The spurned wife
This flowering of insight is powerfully reflected in the story of a middle-
aged woman, who on discovering that a close friend of hers was
having a clandestine affair with her husband, became driven to
comprehend her karmic influences.
On accessing her akashic records, we found a past life in which she
had been abandoned as a young girl child after her village was
attacked and plundered by soldiers. Helpless and alone, she grew up
to be a woman of pleasure living off affluent men in that life (This
points to the tendency towards dependence and helplessness in her
soul). At one of the many fairs where nobility and commoners mingled,
she met a rich man who took her home as his mistress an d she spent
the rest of her life with him in his opulent castle (she commits the
karmic error of coveting another woman’s spouse and violating her
rights.)
Unfortunately, the man was already married and to keep his not so
pretty wife out of his way, he imprisoned her permanently. The
anguished wife came to resent this mistress deeply, feeling vengeful
about the fact that she had stolen the life that was meant for her.