Forgiveness ritual: Forgiving means distancing ourselves from the effects that anger and resentment bring to alter our health and well-being. In this blog we will teach you the benefits and give you some tips to help remove the negative effects of resentment on every level.
Forgiving does not free the offender from their responsibility for the actions committed; it frees the offended from the pain and damage caused by resentment and bitterness.
Let us remember that sacred rituals are actions performed consciously with a deep symbolic value, seeking to approach the spiritual world in a safe, direct, and respectful manner.
During each ritual, a sacred ceremony is performed. For this, it is essential to be connected with oneself, nature, and life.
This ritual of forgiveness is the conscious path to free yourself from the harm caused by resentment and chronic bitterness, creating a strategy to learn how to forgive.
What are resentment and anger?
Anger is a necessary emotion for survival. If it is not expressed completely and naturally, if aggressiveness is not transformed into assertiveness, it may remain dormant, giving rise to resentment.
The resentment is a suffocating feeling that sickens the one who suffers from it and only expects the other person's harm.
This state is characterized especially by driving the constant and silent activity of the nervous system, which is prepared for survival through fight or flight, which can lead to a gradual increase in blood pressure and heart rate.
Forgiveness and forgiving yourself
For Dr. Santiago Rojas, from his perspective as a physician, he values the biological and social well-being that forgiveness provides.
He also states that compassion and generosity are what truly free us and allow us to see beyond our small personality, while recognizing the subjectivity and imperfection of our perceptions, benefiting from forgiveness by seeking the well-being of others.
Furthermore, on the path toward forgiveness, it is important to keep in mind that we must first forgive ourselves, not only others.
If we manage to forgive ourselves, we will reach the highest privilege of humanity: feeling useful at every moment, which makes us value ourselves even more.
Letting go is and will always be the central strategy for recovering peace at every moment, being the ideal mechanism to break the ties with the people and conditions that keep us bound to resentment and bitterness.
Contents of the Forgiveness Ritual
- White candle
- Incense
- White balloon
- Almond oil
- Bag of aromatic herbs
- Forgiving Essence
- Release Essence
- Orchid of Love Essence
- Two sheets of paper
- Sheet of paper with a scaled labyrinth
- Sheet of paper with a labyrinth
- Pentagonal dodecahedron in paper or cardboard to assemble
- Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi