Learn forgiveness from all angles with these tips on finding freedom with Danielle. A guide to moving through the act of forgiving not only yourself, but those who have hurt you.
Danielle Jokonen talks about the power to forgive yourself, others and how to go about it. She uses a powerful meditation called metta meta meditation. Living from a place of compassion and kindness and forgiveness for all beings everywhere.
Hello, my name is Danielle Jokonen and I am a yoga teacher, teacher of trainers and a shaman and a life coach. And here I'm talking about forgiveness. Such a powerful topic and the power to forgive yourself, others and how to go about it. So say something happens, somebody does something to you that is just like, you almost feel totally unforgivable. Totally happens. Raise your hand if it happened. Like, I want you to feel it. I want you to own it. Like, yes, that has happened to me. Feel it right now.
Take that moment to, like, where you feel it in your body. Yeah. Like, I'm just taking a deep breath right now because typically it feels like in your heart. Deep, deep in the heart. Because it hurts. It really hurts. And this is a powerful practice of forgiveness, is to, number one, give yourself, right? You forgive others, it helps you free yourself. Like almost wanting to hold on to that is you. It's the saying, if you heard about this, it's like you drinking poison, expecting the other person to die or to get that impact, it's not going to work, right.
So number one is forgiveness is for you to set yourself free from that experience, even from that purpose. You're giving your power away when you want to hang on to hurts or pains or, like, call it even revenge. Right? Like why it's actually hurting you in the long run. So beautiful phrases. I forgive you, I'm sorry. Thank you. I love you. It's like almost, how can you love that? Not so much the person you can love, the person you can unconditionally love and also have boundaries and also not condone the behavior.
Like put up, put up the brown boundaries when necessary with certain people in your life and you can still forgive because inevitably that frees you from those pains, those hurts, that experience or being stuck in the past about, oh, x happened. And I can never forgive that. And consider that, yes, you can. Because number one, it sets you free. And then that person is left with them and their own journey. It's not your job to even to try to get an apology from them. Like, maybe you will and maybe you won't.
And again, a lot of times people say, oh, I need closure, and do you? And typically, if you do, it's just for you. So how can you get that closure? Close that chapter for you is to forgive yourself and take responsibility too. A lot of times it's easy to blame others. So also equally taking responsibility for that experience and then do the thing you need to do at that time. Oh, I forgive myself. I forgive them. I forgive the experience and I set myself free. That's what inevitably does. It sets yourself free from that experience versus just hanging on to that resentment or that anger.
But you can also set a boundary too, for not to let that happen again as well. So try on a passion passionate practice of forgiveness. It's also a really powerful meditation called metta meta meditation. It's a compassion practice. May all beings be happy. May all beings be free. May all beings be well. And even the people that we may feel like, oh, I don't know if I wish that well. On others, it's like, yes, yes, you can invite it in because it inevitably comes back to you. So may all beings be happy.
May all beings be free. May all beings be well. Metta meditation. Living from a place of compassion and kindness and forgiveness for all beings everywhere. All right, questions on this. Let me know. Have a blessed rest of your day.
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