When we have a full moon it’s a great time for release. Our emotions can be heightened and it is also a perfect time to forgive.
When we forgive we are releasing what doesn’t serve us any longer to make room for what we do want more of in our life. We release toxic emotions such as guilt, shame, anger, resentment, bitterness, hatred, and judgment, just to name a few. We can then replace them with what we want to feel, such as, love, joy, happiness, abundance, success, peace and gratitude.
I am part of a prayer group where we learn how to write affirmative prayers. Praying is like manifesting or as our group leader likes to phrase it as out-picturing. We co-create with our higher power which we can call God, Universe, Spirit, Buddha, Allah, Bob…you get what I mean. It’s a higher power energy that is within YOU too!
Many think their higher power is outside of them, it is not! It is within you and you create your reality with the words you say and think, the actions you take and the limiting beliefs you hold on to.
I would like to share my prayer with you around forgiveness, feel free to use it for yourself or change it to reflect you. I use God as my higher power and you can replace the name with whatever you call your higher power.
I read my affirmative prayers each morning and it’s my way of setting my intentions for the day of who I am and what I want to create. Affirmative prayers are always written in the present tense.
My Forgiveness Prayer
There is only one source I call God. God is all that is and therefore God is within me. What is true for God is true for me. Today I am willing to forgive myself for feeling not enough, and not worthy of being a divine expression of God.
In forgiving and accepting myself as who I truly am I feel unconditional love, support, abundance and personal power. I fully step into who I am and use my gifts and talents to help guide others to their truths too.
I am in gratitude today for this deep sense of knowing I am fully supported in all ways whether I can see it or not. Thank you to God and to myself for the ease, joy, and abundance in my life. I am free to be me! I release all which does not serve me to God knowing my true nature is my reality.
Here’s the same prayer with space for you to customize what you want to add to your affirmative prayer.
Your Forgiveness Prayer
There is only one source I call __________. _____________ is all that is and therefore _____________ is within me. What is true for ____________ is true for me. Today I am willing to forgive myself for feeling _____________, and _____________________________________.
In forgiving and accepting myself as who I truly am I feel ___________________________________. I fully step into who I am and use my gifts and talents to ______________________________________.
I am in gratitude today for this deep sense of knowing I am fully supported in all ways whether I can see it or not. Thank you to _______________ and to myself for the ease, joy, and abundance in my life. I am free to be me! I release all which does not serve me to ________________ knowing my true nature is my reality.
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Don’t kid yourself, the power of prayer can change your life in unlimited ways and by no means is it only for full moon time, it’s most powerful when practiced daily.
We can pray whatever way we want so get creative! You can write and read out loud, sing, dance, colour, whatever way inspires you. Your higher power hears you and remember…. all you have to do is set your intentions, ask for what you want and take the inspired action when the opportunity to do so comes your way.
Warning: the opportunity to get closer to what you want might make you feel uncomfortable but we don’t grow unless we are uncomfortable so take the risk and trust your higher power, even if it’s baby action steps. As long as you are moving towards what you want it is yours for the receiving!
Happy full moon releasing.
Besides impacting the lives of others to ‘be real and love life’ the most powerful thing about the work I get to do is the reflections of the teachings that come back to me. I always receive some type of wisdom, healing or blessing from the experience, whether it’s a private, group session or a speaking event.
Whatever the message is that I’ve conveyed I am somehow reminded of how it applies to me as well and it guides me towards the next stage of my growth.
Being aware of the subtle messages that are being sent to guide us forward is very empowering.
Last weekend at the Soul Full Day conference, I guided a group of 70 women through a visualization meditation to identify and let go of a fear story holding them back from what they truly wanted for their life, freedom to live their love story.
It was remarkable to witness them releasing the fear and claiming their love stories, seeing and feeling themselves living in the higher potential of their dreams.
This week I’ve been deeply reminded of the fear story that I’ve been carrying, ‘not being well enough to live a fulfilling life because my digestive health is failing’.
This is the same story my grandmother carried, and she died in fear with this story in her which was unconsciously passed on to me, and I accepted it.
For 8 years now I’ve been having various challenges with my digestive health. I’ve seen many different professionals and tried many different remedies and lifestyle changes. Some have worked and some haven’t. Over time things seemed to have mostly settled, then just a month ago the issues flared up again in a bigger way.
This brought up the old fear story for me as I prepare for a trip of a lifetime. I’m going to Egypt on a sacred pilgrimage to the visit the lands and ancient sites with 13 other women. This will be my first trip overseas and I’ve always been fascinated with Egyptian history, never thinking I would get the opportunity to visit until it showed up to me. I was very drawn to go, and decided I was going, even though it felt way outside my ability to be able to take such a trip.
Worries and a wide range of emotions have been coming up for me since these flare ups have been happening. My mind races and makes up stories based in old fears.
What if I am not well enough to fully experience this trip? What if I am stuck in my room and miss the tours, or what if I am not able to digest the food there? All that disappointment and money spent if I might not be able to full experience it.
These stories are very similar to what my grandmother used to tell herself. She was afraid to go far from home, let alone on a plane to another country. Everything centred around her digestive limitations and she was petrified of having an ‘accident’ while out in public. These fear stories debilitated her and she became a hermit and was very lonely in her later years.
I will never forget seeing her in the final days of her life living in fear. I visited her almost every day and seeing her like that was very sad because there wasn’t much I could do other than comfort and reassure her that she would be ok.
What it did do was motivate me to face my own fears and not go down the same path as she did. In this regard, she was a great teacher to me and not long after she transitioned I was divinely guided to take the Radical Forgiveness Master Coach 10 day training in Atlanta.
It was a huge step for me, and again way outside my comfort zone, but in the end it was one of the best things I could have done for myself because it set me on the trajectory of facing my fears, and the journey of living my love story.
I am eternally grateful to be on this path of self-forgiveness and self-acceptance just as I am, and in time I have learned to love myself. I’m still on this healing journey however this year I’ve had some major shifts in this area of my life and feel truly worthy and deserving of this love for myself because I have freedom from the fears.
This is where the synchronicity comes in again.
It just so happens that this Friday, the day I fly to Egypt, is the 9 year anniversary of my grandmother’s passing, and it’s a full moon! You just can’t make these things up. I didn’t realize the mysterious alignment of these dates until just a few weeks ago.
In numerology the number 9 represents endings and completions and I have a strong intuitive feeling that this trip is going to be transformational for me as a new beginning.
The other day when I was dancing my grandmother came to my mind, she was dancing with me, and I know she is leaving me these breadcrumb signs to follow to complete this stage of my journey. I made a promise to her that I was going to end the cycle of fear she carried and commit myself to healing into wholeness.
I have no doubt that this is all happening for me, rather than to me. And unlike my grandmother, I will face my fears and take this trip and I will trust in the divine unfoldment of it all.
I am reminded that everything is always working out for me, even if it doesn’t seem that way and she is cheering me on all along the way.
These are the same phrases I spoke to the women when I was on stage just a few days ago and they echo loudly in my mind as the beautiful blessings of having the freedom to live my love story.
If you would like to experience the guided visualization for yourself listen to the audio recording so you too can be free from your fear story and claim your love story.
In my next blog I will share about my travel adventures so stay tuned, and if you would like to be notified when I share it you can join my email Love Letter list at the bottom of this page.
Until next time… thank you for being here.
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