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Making Your Heart a Safe Place with a Spiritual Eraser

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Written by: Joyce Vissell

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My grandfather was stern and bitter. Earlier in his life, he had owned a business with his brother, and he felt that his brother had cheated him. He often obsessed about that supposed injustice, even to me as a little girl. He wanted me to know every single detail. 

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Free Yourself with the Love and Light Technique

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Written by: Chloe Panta

Free Yourself with the Love and Light Technique

Even if someone did something unspeakable to you or to someone you know, if you hold on to your anger, you are only hurting yourself. 

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Letting Go of Our Stories: The Gateway to Peace

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Written by: Kate King

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If there’s one phrase in the English language that has both befuddled and enraged people for generations, it’s let it go. It infuriates us because despite our deep longing to do such a thing, letting go remains elusive and always seemingly out of reach.

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The Path to Forgiveness: My Dog Bokie and the Mysterious Hospital Chaplain

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Written by: Joyce Vissell

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Bokie was more like a child to me than a dog. He was a steady loving presence that I counted on. While I still couldn't fully trust Barry, I could completely trust Bokie. He was never far from my side.

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Healing Our Past and Living Forwards

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Written by: Gary C. Cooper

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Who doesn't wish they could rewind the tape of their lives and do a few things differently? “If I only knew then what I know now ...” We’ve all sung that song. So, what do we do with our troublesome memories?

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Why Expand Your Circle of Compassion

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Written by: Lawrence Doochin

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Where compassion is, fear cannot be. Just as gratitude is the opposite of resentment, bitterness, and fear, compassion and judgment are also opposites. Compassion expands our energy, whereas judgment contracts it.

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Tolerance and Acceptance in a World of Constant Contrasts

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Written by: Pierre Pradervand

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Never in the history of humanity have we been exposed to such an infinite variety of opinions, beliefs, forms of behavior, customs and so on. Humanity has become a melting pot of world dimensions!

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The Power of an Apology -- and the Cost of Not

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Written by: Jude Bijou

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We all sometimes say and do things we regret. What is the upside of a genuine apology? What is the cost of not apologizing?

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How to Attain Freedom from Hidden Shame

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Written by: Joyce Vissell

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Ram Dass taught us many very important things. Perhaps the most important is to accept and love ourselves completely and to not hide the darker sides of our being.

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Self-Responsibility: The Key to Owning Your Past... and Your Power

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Written by: Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D.

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Although you may know you’re a good person who has something to offer the world, when your victim pattern runs your life, you inevitably feel stifled and trapped by people you’ve encountered in the past or are dealing with now.

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Letting Go and Taking Forgiveness to the Next Level

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Written by: Joyce Vissell

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A lot has been written about forgiveness and how it blesses the person who forgives. I hope to add another aspect which is very important in the journey of full forgiveness.

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Go From Body Shame to Body Acceptance

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Written by: Gabes Torres

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"When was the last time you experienced compassion? Similar to shame, compassion is also a social experience."

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Forgiveness: The Unavoidable Transition to a Better World

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Written by: Olivier Clerc

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“Can we heal the wounds of the heart, can everything be forgiven?” The question must actually be refor­mulated. 

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Regrets: Why and How to Make an Apology

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Written by: Jude Bijou

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Whether it's your parent, coworker, child, lover, or friend, we all sometimes say and do things we regret. We fret, get defensive, make excuses, and rationalize that what we did wasn't so bad.

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Light Calling From The Abyss

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Written by: Laura Aversano

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My prayer is that we all create a space for the darkness to birth a new way of seeing, sensing, feeling and relating. When held in the threshold of the Divine, any darkness can serve a higher purpose,...

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Light Calling From The Abyss (Video)

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Written by: Laura Aversano

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My prayer is that we all create a space for the darkness to birth a new way of seeing, sensing, feeling and relating. When held in the threshold of the Divine, any darkness can serve a higher purpose,...

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Finding True Freedom by Crossing the Bridge of Forgiveness

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Written by: Vincent Cole

Finding True Freedom by Crossing the Bridge of Forgiveness

As you begin to seek inner faith and come to trust yourself and your abilities, you must first cross the 'bridge of forgiveness'. You have come this far by making the intellectual decision to move forward, but now you must make the emotional decision. Now you must step upon this bridge of forgiveness so as not to carry the past into the future.

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Separation and Isolation vs. Community and Compassion (Video)

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Written by: Lawrence Doochin

Separation and Isolation vs. Community and Compassion

When we are in community, we automatically fall into service to those in need because we know them and see their need up close versus judging someone from afar and condemning them. “Community” comes from the Latin for “fellowship,” meaning “with unity.”

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Separation and Isolation vs. Community and Compassion

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Written by: Lawrence Doochin

Separation and Isolation vs. Community and Compassion

When we are in community, we automatically fall into service to those in need because we know them and see their need up close versus judging someone from afar and condemning them. “Community” comes from the Latin for “fellowship,” meaning “with unity.”

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Clearing the Residue of an Abusive, Unloving Parent

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Written by: Maureen J. St. Germain

Clearing the Residue of an Abusive, Unloving Parent

You are about to learn a very specific technique for clearing your subconscious of all the old programming of anything less than unconditional love. This is a technique that will slip by your internal gatekeeper and allow the new statement to be seeded into your subconscious.

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Clearing the Residue of an Abusive, Unloving Parent (Video)

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Written by: Maureen J. St. Germain

Clearing the Residue of an Abusive, Unloving Parent

You are about to learn a very specific technique for clearing your subconscious of all the old programming of anything less than unconditional love. This is a technique that will slip by your internal gatekeeper and allow the new statement to be seeded into your subconscious.

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