Sat Nam,

Last week we finished our series on the Virtues and I realised I had forgotten a really important one, forgiveness.

Mark Twain says “Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” I love that! For me forgiveness is making peace with the situation completely. It’s seeing and feeling the situation through the eyes of your soul, the space that doesn’t judge but loves unconditionally, no easy feat and something I’m working on at the moment.

Patty Kikos wrote a beautiful piece on forgiveness this week. She said that we can’t just forgive intellectually as our mind doesn’t have the capacity to understand at the deep level required to let go of a grievance and forgive, it must come from the soul. I feel she has hit the nail on the head because I know from my own experience and hearing my friends speak about this, forgiveness is hard to do when we are trying to think our way through it. But how do we get our souls to kick in to the process of forgiveness. Well for me, one of the ways is through meditation. Whilst meditating I have moments where my mind stops and I am at peace in the space of infinity and in this space I believe it’s when the soul does the work that’s needed to heal and forgive. I have been meditating most mornings to Ra Ma Da Sa the healing mantra for myself and others and no matter the mood I’m in to start, it always brings peace.

As the eclipse season is nearly upon us, starting on 7 August it’s so important to face situations and forgive otherwise the powerful energy of these eclipses will put these issues into full play mode for us. Try meditating over the issue in question and allow the fragrance of forgiveness to envelope you.

What is your relationship with forgiveness?

Reminder that we are no longer teaching at the Flying Yogis. I have now joined the Soul Flow Team and I will start my new Tuesday night class at Soul Flow Yoga next Tuesday. There will be no Tuesday night class this week.

Classes this week:

9.30am – Adette at Soul Flow

See you on the mat. ❤

Love and light,
Adette