A PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS
I’m sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you
I love you
In my Rebirthing Breathwork session last week I was experiencing a lot of pain and contraction around my left knee and hip before a question landed in my heart.
“What are you most afraid of?”
“Not having a relationship with my sisters again”, I silently replied.
My youngest sister hasn’t spoken to me for over 2.5 years. And my relationship with my older sister has been strained for just as long. The outcome of an in-family trauma that occurred and changed everything. Or so I thought - what I have come to realise is that the trauma didn’t cause anything; but rather shed light on many truths that lay dormant beneath the unspoken for many years.
It has been a journey of deep personal work to understand my role in the demise of these relationships and acceptance that this is how things are right now, despite my yearning for things to be in a state of repair and healing. In a breathwork session I did in November I had a vision of me with my siblings sitting together in a circle of healing. My brother was a pillar - the glue that held us all together, and Mackenzie hovered over us weaving a thread of love, forgiveness and compassion through our hearts and sacral energy centres. This deep and profound healing provoked deeper energetic, ancestral and familial healing. It was one of the most profound healing experiences I have ever endured.
I saw the vision again last week, all of us sitting in circle with Mackenzie weaving her healing magic through us.
“Just focus on the healing already being done. And so it is”, the voice said.
Then I turned to my younger sister, sitting beside me in this sacred healing circle, and said the above prayer. These 4 simple statements that invite the deepest will of forgiveness, acceptance of responsibility, ownership, co creativity, compassion and love.
It’s a Hawaiian prayer, created by Dr. Hew Len, called Ho’Oponopono.
I said it to my brother, then my older sister, then Mackenzie, then my parents and then every other person I’ve ever been in relationship with. As they came to my heart to receive this offering of forgiveness and love I created a vortex of healing. For anyone I have ever hurt, judged, criticised, blamed, misunderstood … and for anyone that has done the same to me.
I saw myself looking over the whole world and said it to the entire planet and every Being on it.
Then I swallowed the planet (wild visions can happen in breathwork!) to digest and alchemise any remaining suffering, and birthed a new Earth. And in it’s creation, every person was united, hand in hand, across the entire globe, saying this prayer to one another.
All the tension and pain in my leg and hip instantly evaporated.
Worldly responsibility.
Worldly acceptance.
Worldly understanding.
Worldly forgiveness.
Worldly compassion.
Worldly love.
Worldly healing.
“The work you do to heal yourself matters. It ripples across the world. Your healing, heals others. Keep going”, I hear the voice say.
A wave of peace and surrender swept over me and I went into complete stillness as this collective healing integrated through me.
I offer you this practice of forgiveness for reconciliation the restoration of love and, because we need more of this in our world.
I’m sorry - I take full responsibility for any way I have harmed you.
Please forgive me - for all the ways I have harmed you.
Thank you - for the lessons this experience has given me.
I love you - united in love and compassion.
And so it is xx