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Complete each of the following statements in response to any awareness you have come to after reading today's prayer.

Today I acknowledge that my thinking is causing me the experience of:

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Recognizing this makes me feel:

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Using the following statements, forgive yourself for unproductive or negative thought and feeling identified above.

I forgive myself for thinking:

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I forgive myself for feeling:

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Forgiveness is an ultimate act of love. It is not the act of "forgetting" an incident or upset. It is the remembering and the choice to "give away" the hurt we have attached to the experience ...  Forgiveness is the living of love or the application of love to our lives. It is remembering that we are capable of loving ourselves and others in a greater way.

The Law of Forgiveness states that certain ideas must be dissolved and cleared from the mind in order that other new ideas of a different character may replace them. Through forgive- ness, we create new realities that allow us to experience greater love and freedom. Forgiveness sets the stage for a new act in our lives to begin. Holding on to judgments about experiences and people keeps us in limitation.  

When we allow ourselves the experience of forgiveness, we turn the key to open the cell of humanness and release the divinity that resides in us and in others, and allow that divinity to reign.  

Essentials:

1. Forgiveness starts in our own hearts. Only when we have forgiven ourselves can we give it to others.

2. Forgiveness is not conditional, even though our practice of it often is.

3. Forgiveness is an ongoing process. It continues in response to every judgment we make about ourselves.

4. Every gesture of forgiveness is sufficient. Whatever we are able to do now is enough. This understanding enables us to practice forgiveness with forgiveness.

 I FORGIVE ME  

Precious Lord of the Universe:

Today, I accept, believe and stand in the awareness that every thought and emotion I hold, every judgment, every identity, every concept, every recognition, every awareness upon which I focus my attention, is a gift I give to myself.

Every gift I offer, every judgment I make, every identity I create, every concept I construct, every recognition I establish, whether positive or not, goes forth into my life and returns to me not void, but as the image, experience, feeling, and expression

Today, I accept, believe and stand in the awareness that I am the source of the thoughts I think because my mind is one with Divine mind.  My capacity to think, whether positive or not, is the gift I have received from life and creates the gifts I offer in my life. Today I recognize this awareness as the operation of the Law of Mind, the process of Case and Effect.

Today, I forgive myself for the gifts I have offered to myself, to others and to the world that were not in alignment with the Law of Love.

When I think with a Mind of Love, every thought I hold goes forth and will return to me as more love.  

Today, I forgive myself for the ways and number of times I have resisted being in alignment and harmony with the Law of Love.

When I think with the ego mind, every thought I hold about myself or anyone else returns to me as an image or experience of pain, wounding, hurt, sorrow, suffering or attack.  

Today, I forgive myself for allowing, encouraging and giving silent, unconscious permission to the ego mind to create and contribute to the presence of pain, wounding, hurt, sorrow, suffering, lack and attack in my life.  

I am now aware that every thought I allow myself to think about myself and everyone else; every judgment I make about myself and everyone else; every identity I create of myself and everyone else; every concept I construct about myself and everyone else; every recognition I make about myself and everyone else, whether positive or not, is a divine creation.

Today, I forgive myself for every thought I have held, every emotion I have nurtured, every judgment I have made, every identify I have created, every concept I have constructed, every recognition I have established that was not grounded in love.

And So It Is!  Amen!

Rev. Dr. Iyanla Vanzant 

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AFFIRMATIONS

2010-2013

Every thought that enters my mind;

every  choice or decision

I make; every action

I take today is filled

with the light, love and

the power of truth that

comes from Spirit. 

 I am blessed today!