As we grow up, our sense of resentment against people grows. This happens for obvious reason that we have acquired a lot of knowledge.
While we have grown up enough to find our way to that concluding resentment, taking the next step is easier where we can forgive and move on.
Forgiveness is not for someone else, it is a process of self-empowerment.
11 Reasons Why ‘Forgiveness Is Power’
Here are the reasons which will prove to you that forgiveness is power.
1) It is harder than the Ice-Bucket Challenge!
You must have been watching the Ice bucket challenge, the fear factor, and must have appreciated it too. If you did, then you will appreciate forgiveness too. The former challenges physical strength and latter tests mental strength.
It is all about overcoming your instincts. Your challenge is to overcome an instinct which is a sense of vengeance that our 70% of the self is refusing to conquer.
If you overcome this very natural and strong instinct, you come off as stronger person. And this challenge is worth taking, because it is going to change your life in more ways than you think.
2) A Lesson Learned: Forgiveness is Power
Every time you feel you have been cheated, take it as a lesson. You have learned what not to do. Complete this chapter and close it as learned by forgiving that person who has wronged you.
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You will never again fall a prey to such a circumstance again, and you will rather owe this to him/her.
You will be on guard against such people in future. Close this chapter as a lesson learnt!
3) Understand That They Can’t Help It & You Can
Forgiveness is power; not just a physical power of control and a control of instinct, but it is a psychological power too. How?
If you observe a situation closely, you will realise that people act in a certain way because they cannot help being that. People behave in a certain way because of reasons like their past experiences, mental block or traits like meanness.
They cannot help living with those traits, and reasons. Understanding and forgiving someone’s wrongdoings need a mental strength, which only you can show.
4) Power to Make Yourself Happy
Forgiveness is a way to make the self happy.
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Realise one thing that it is only YOU who is suffering in this vindication. You are being unable to achieve perfect happiness for yourself.
Your smile has stopped reaching the recesses of your heart. You soul does not beam anymore. You are inflicting more pain and suffering on yourself. Forgiveness is power; it can bring your happiness back to you.
5) Open More Avenues in Life
You will agree and feel that while we nurture a grudge against someone, there is a contraction in us.
We start avoiding new people. We grow defensive and judgemental. We avoid entering into new zones of life.
Forgiveness is going to open all the closed doors in your heart. Let the sunshine reach your heart, and open new avenues. Forgiveness is power which will give you strength to live your life afresh again, with hope and vigour.
6) You Want to Avenge It? Avenge it then!
It might sound a little hard to believe, but if you will experience it, you will agree, that the worst you can do to your enemy is avoid her/him.
If the person did not wrong you deliberately, your balance and carefree self-will hurt your enemy as guilt.
If that someone was most deliberately trying to act negative in your life, nothing will pain him/her more than your happiness.
7) Be God’s Child
Forgiveness is all over the Bible as a power that makes you the God’s child. This is because forgiveness brings a purity of feelings.
Trust yourself with God and leave the judgement for God to make: “Forgive everyone because God will forgive you.”
8) De-Victimize Yourself and Live Freely
Forgiveness as a power teaches you to de-victimise yourself.
Till you believe you have been wronged, you pity yourself. You go down in your self-respect to a great degree.
To live a happy and free life, it is essential that you stop victimizing yourself. Only forgiveness has the power to de-victimize you.
The moment you free someone else from blame, you free yourself come out of the victim’s robe.
9) Best Gift you can give to YOURSELF
As a person who has been wronged, you live under an unconscious expectation from yourself, of acting as a victim and being a sad person. You live under a retrain.
The best gift you can give to yourself is of forgiving the other person, so that you can set yourself free. Your mind will force you against it, and your heart will try to live the bad experience for life.
But, you do deserve the gift of being free and happy again.
10) Realise Inner Peace and Power
Forgiveness gives inner strength and peace. If you can get over this one bad phase, you can overcome anything in life.
Every bad circumstance comes with two choices for you. First, you can suffer the experience, and live it miserably, or you can face it strongly and come off as more powerful than many others around.
Live this bad experience as a learning that essentially makes you stronger and at peace inside.
11) We All Err and We All Deserve Forgiveness!
We all err at times and we all seek forgiveness.
If you are still being unable to forgive and move on, then look back in your life. You will remember moments when you erred and expected forgiveness.
You are still unable to face yourself for that one mistake. As you forgive someone from his/her crime, you will redeem yourself. As you forgive, you are forgiven too.
Endnote
Forgiveness is power vested in you. You can transform the way you look at your life and at yourself through forgiveness.
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