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How to Make 2016 the Year of Bold Forgiveness
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Another New Year has arrived and though this is traditionally a time to assess our goals and aspirations for the future, I prefer to focus my attention and intentions on the present moment. In reality, we can only make changes right here, right now in this instant in time. So as I look at what is most needed in my life and on ...
Read Full Post »Forgiveness: Your Most Important Spiritual Practice
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Forgiveness is a very powerful spiritual practice that is often very difficult to accomplish. Whenever we feel we have been wronged by another person, or society, or even life itself, it is human nature to carry anger and resentment with us, sometimes for many years. The problem is that such bitter feelings are destructive to us physica...
Read Full Post »When heroes fall: forgiving Lance Armstrong
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This week the world of professional cycling has experienced both the best and the worst that the sport has to offer. Here in Colorado the USA Pro Challenge has been a huge success, providing thrilling feats of physical strength, intense competitive drama and jaw-dropping scenery to spectators and viewers around the globe. Not to mention the inspiration that is generated by the stories of these athletes who train with superhuman determination, battle injuries and limitations, and persevere aga...
Read Full Post »A simple technique to change your outlook (and your life)
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Recently I was introduced to a powerful practice that is based on an ancient Hawaiian ritual for forgiveness and reconciliation called Ho’oponopono. In the Hawaiian language this word literally means to “put things in order” or “make t...
Read Full Post »Why is it so hard to forgive?
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(Photo Credit: Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
One of the survivors of the Aurora theater massacre has told The Denver Post he has already forgiven the shooter, James Holmes, for woundi...
Read Full Post »End-of-life movie review: Beaches
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The 1988 Garry Marshall film, Beaches, tells the story of two very different women who have been penpals and unlikely friends since childhood. C.C. Bloom, played by Bette Midler, is a struggling entertainer who carries on a turbulent relationship w...
Read Full Post »Forgiveness part 4: The weight of unforgiveness
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Finding a way to forgive a person who has caused harm can be one of the most difficult tasks in life to undertake, but also one of the most important. This 4-part series examines
Read Full Post »Forgiveness part 3: the forgiveness garden and other rituals for letting go of resentment
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Finding a way to forgive a person who has caused harm can be one of the most difficult tasks in life to undertake, but also one of the most important. This 4-part series examines why forgiveness is necessary, how to reach a state of forgiveness, rituals that support forgive...
Read Full Post »Forgiveness part 2: how to forgive using the 4-View Process
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Finding a way to forgive a person who has caused harm can be one of the most difficult tasks in life to undertake, but also one of the most important. This 4-part series examines
Read Full Post »Forgiveness part 1: why bother to forgive?
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Finding a way to forgive a person who has caused harm can be one of the most difficult tasks in life to undertake, but also one of the most important. This 4-part series examines why forgiveness is necessary,
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