The Five People to Forgive Before You Die - February 2016 - The Evolving Heart Newsletter

Published: Thu, 02/04/16

Life Absolutely Gets Better 
When We Let Go of the Bitter.
​February 2016
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Welcome! - Taylor Tagg
Announcement:
Forgive and Find Peace Workshop 
February 20, 2016

I am happy to announce that The Forgive and Find Peace Workshops in 2016 are now free. Space will be limited. In lieu of a registration fee, you may choose to contribute a love gift to the Forgiveness Ministry to help cover expenses and expand our outreach.

Join me for the next FAFP workshop on Saturday, February 20th from 9 AM - 5 PM in Memphis. 
8191 Dogwood Rd in Germantown.

What can you expect from a FAFP workshop?                
  • Shed your stress and heal from life's disappointments
  • Resolve old hurts and renew your love for family members
  • Improve your health and increase your vitality
  • Connect with your soul and God
  • Gain a valuable tool for your toolbox
  • And live more purposefully than you ever have before

All in a day! Join us on February 20th!

For a prelude to FAFP, listen to The Eight Steps to Peace on LearnItLive.com
                             
Register for the free February 20, 2016 Forgive and Find Peace Workshop

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you will never receive.”      

Robert Brault
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The Five People to Forgive Before You Die

Taylor Tagg
 
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. - Robert Muller

Forgiveness can be a tough exercise until you realize it’s necessary for peace in life. It’s natural to intentionally hold on to things, vowing one day to get it all back in one way or another. 

Our resentments give us a sense of being on top. Over time, resentments can lead to feeling lonely, unfulfilled, and unloved in many ways. What we want is to breathe and feel free. Freedom and peace can be found immediately through the power of forgiveness. 

By forgiving the people who have hurt you, the capacity to see a larger picture opens and a higher meaning in what you have gone through emerges. Forgiving someone now would be a gentle step in transforming your pain into a bigger purpose in your life.

Here are five important people to forgive and clear the slate with before the end of your life. If these five people don’t exactly fit your blueprint, use them as a guide to determine who you choose to forgive.

1. Forgive Mom and Dad – the people that brought you into the world made some mistakes along the way. Learn to allow those mistakes (even the big ones) to become a part of your journey to heal and grow. 

Forgiving your parents opens the door to the larger context that they did the best they could with what they had at the time. Your parents brought you up to live according to their understanding of it. However, gaps were created as you developed your own standards for living. 

Forgive the gaps and embrace the differences. Mom and Dad's intentions for you were always good. Allow the gaps to become loving spaces from which you can grow and expand beyond what your parents could provide for you.

2. Forgive Your Siblings (or Your Children) – your brothers, sisters, even kids are difficult at times. Is it worth holding anger or resentment against them? They are trying to figure life out through a similar pain and hurt that you feel. Honor that.

Forgiving them doesn’t mean you give up getting justice or stop pursuing what is right. It means giving up the injustice of allowing your hurt to re-injure you again and again. 

When we hold on tight in unforgiveness, we pay a heavy physical, mental, and emotional price for keeping that negative energy locked up inside of us. You can remain steadfast that an action be taken while completely letting go of the negativity associated with it on the inside. Learn to accept the apology you will never receive from them.

You deserve better instead of bitter. Forgive them.

In doing so, you will discover that you can co-exist peacefully and live life the way you want to. That comes from within you to make it happen.

3. Forgive Your Enemy (or person who significantly wounded you) – one of the keys to becoming a whole being is to forgive your enemies. Former spouses, abusers, bullies, horrible bosses, etc. don’t need to line up for your forgiveness because your healing is not for them. 

It’s about you leaving the past behind for good and opening to your future with fresh eyes. Forgiveness gives you the option to allow a higher power to handle them from here on out.

Applying faith that the universe will carry events to their rightful completion according to its timing can get you back to being the real, authentic person you were meant to be, free from the weight of accumulated stress and overbearing expectations.

4. Forgive Your Spouse or Significant Other - our lovers challenge us every day to be better people. Learning to accept them for who they are and love them helps us forgive our yearning that they act like someone else.

In accepting them as they are in the present moment, we find an opportunity to forgive the small annoyances of everyday life and open to much higher space of love for them than we have ever known.

It changes us for the better and makes our relationships more loving. Forgiveness leads us to be more grateful for what is good in them and in us too.

5. Forgive Yourself – there is no one on planet earth who will be harder on you than you. Forgiving yourself is one of the most freeing exercises you can ever do.

Giving yourself a break brings on the realization that you are deeply loved by the Divine in every moment.  

We punish ourselves relentlessly in the forms of the statements, “what’s wrong with you!” and “you should know better!” The toxic guilt and shame generated from these words prevent us from moving forward. 

Write a loving letter to yourself.

Address it to the small child within you. State how as an adult you are now going to protect and serve the whole person which includes your small self.

This exercise can provide a powerful segway to clarity and self-forgiveness. Penning this simple letter of love helps you release years of accumulated self-punishment and self-criticism that have built up over time. 

The Next Step

Forgiving your parents, siblings, children, enemies, spouses or significant others, and yourself can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your lifetime. It’s a powerful, loving example that will reverberate outward for generations to come.

Forgiving your parents leads to greater understanding of their best efforts which no longer need judgment. Forgiving your siblings and children affords an opportunity to drop the bitter for better while still pursuing what is right.

Forgiving your enemies lead to greater clarity about the future knowing that you don't have to battle them alone.

Forgiving your spouse or significant other leads to greater acceptance of who they are. 

Most importantly, forgiving yourself opens the door to peace within while turning self-criticism into compassion and greater love for oneself. 

Lead yourself and the people you hold dear to higher spiritual ground.

Forgive who you need to before you pass from this life, not from a place of fear but from a place of love. 

Do it for you. 

Start living without regret. 

There is an ocean of peace and freedom waiting for you on the other side of forgiveness. 

There is no better time to start than right now.

Peace be with you always,

Taylor
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Workshops for 2016!
February 20, 2016 Forgive and Find Peace Workshop and
Retreat to Peace 2016 on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Nov 2-6
The Forgive and Find Peace Workshop (FAFP) is a unique healing experience in which you learn tools in one weekend that you will use for a lifetime. It is an opportunity for emotional healing and a spiritual tune-up that will leave you feeling lighter, clearer, and closer to God.

Comments from recent FAFP Workshops

"Forgive and Find Peace was extraordinary!" - L Rostig
"A deeply, profoundly moving experience." - B Harris
"I knew it would be amazing...and it was!" - S Baur

See you in February for a year of opening into forgiveness!

Upcoming Workshops

Forgive and Find Peace Workshop
February 20, 2016 Memphis, TN 

Registration for the February 2016 workshop is free. FAFP alumni can also return free for a refresher.


Retreat to Peace 2016
November 2-6, 2016 
Tagganale, Seacrest Beach, FL
Learn how to bring a guest for free!

Retreat to Peace is a four-day relaxation experience on the beautiful Gulf Coast of FL in which you learn tools to unwind away from the daily grind and build peace in your life. It's an opportunity for healing, clarity, new vision, and to be with like-minded friends in a gorgeous setting.

 Where can I contact Taylor with any questions?
By phone at 901.921.8901 or email: [email protected]
Taylor's Published Books Library

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