Until a few decades ago, only theologians, religious or spiritual consultants were concerned with forgiveness; today, even science studies its physical and psychological benefits. Forgiveness is good, it helps to purify us and gets rid of our pain and suffering, and improves the mind-body balance.
Relevant scientific study has shown that forgiveness is fundamental to our health: the act of forgiving affects the immune and cardiovascular systems, it affects the central nervous system and is important for mental health. Forgiving allows us to develop positive feelings and emotions that directly affect our well-being.
Beyond these excellent benefits, however, forgiveness also acts at a deeper level: it allows us to experience the natural-born wholeness of our being and go beyond the illusory perception that we are separate from reality.
Through forgiveness, we can re-establish a state of oneness, where all that is external and all that is internal become one. We can transform pain, hatred, anger, and resentment into love, with the awareness that every dark shadow in our life is only evidence of the existence of light.
Forgiveness is that place within us where we can transform every circumstance that causes us pain and negatively affects our life into a gift, a resource. Forgiveness can transform us and our external environment, realigning everything on the principles of freedom, gratitude, and love.
Forgiving at this deep level allows us to obtain a sense of freedom, relieving us of our guilt and any feelings that oppress us. It helps us to grow personally and spiritually, supporting the development of feelings of humility, openness, peace, harmony, compassion, and gratitude within us.
Forgiveness improves relationships, because it increases our ability to communicate and understand others, it generates openness and a desire for reconciliation, as well as having an effect on society as a whole. Any society becomes better when its people learn to understand and metabolise the principles, processes, and dynamics of forgiveness, especially if those who forgive are educators and people in power.
From this perspective, we can consider forgiveness a process of self-realisation, which begins with an individual’s need to expand their consciousness, which in turn helps to develop a holistic and integrated vision of what we normally perceive as reality.
The book explains 7 forgiveness techniques that can help us develop our ability to make real changes, making us alchemists, who hold the key to the door of a more complete existence.
