How do you actually see it when, like today, the first Advent is just around the corner? Does that mean a time of preparation for you and and that is the literal meaning of 'Advent'? And is this preparation hectic pace and Christmas shopping? Or is it also a moment for you of pausing to look back over the year. In short, are you preparing? And if so, for what?
Wouldn't now be the perfect opportunity to purify the soul detox your soul, so to speak? It can help if you ask yourself a few ask yourself a few questions: Have I got to where I wanted to be? Did I have a goal at all? Did I just let myself drift? And am I satisfied with it?
Here's a tip: take a piece of paper and write down what you are grateful for this year - for which encounters, experiences, people...! What good things have happened? And what have you learnt about learnt about yourself? Have you perhaps dealt with difficult situations differently and are happy about it? Have you been able to reconcile with someone reconciled with someone or at least been more generous and tolerant towards others? others?
Forgiveness as the highest form of reconciliation can can actually be very relieving or even purifying. Don't worry, for this you don't necessarily have to have the other person in front of you. Just do it simply do it for yourself. The Hawaiians, for example, show us how to do it and look back on a long tradition of forgiveness. They even have even have a name for it: Ho'oponopono.
I would like to suggest a variation of Ho'oponopono as a way of as a way of preparing for the new beginning of Advent.
Close your eyes. Imagine the person you are annoyed with or angry at. You tell him inwardly everything that is bothering you in this context and follow it with a very important sentence: "I forgive you, I forgive myself, I forgive us." What happens happen to the other person in your mind? Does it disappear from your field of vision backwards or upwards? Or does it turn to ashes before your eyes? Then the solved for you. Does the person in your perception react in any way form or does it simply remain? Then there is still something standing between you.
In this case, take a minute and listen to yourself. yourself. Which aspects have not yet been addressed? Do you really forgive or are you not ready yet? What part do you yourself in the conflict? Make yourself realise that it is a process without apportioning blame: we are human beings We are human and behave in the way we can at that moment.
Try it. Forgiveness can relieve us and our souls and the effect can be very powerful.
I would be delighted to hear about your experience with it. with it.