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Forgiveness
Perspective #1
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Forgiveness 101
Antonia Lyons
Sometimes you’ve got to walk on your own!
Forgiveness Perspective #1 Antonia Lyons - Energy Intuitive www.evokinggrace.com “I am an “Energy Intuitive” I help others identify what stops them from thriving and truly enjoying their life. I use writing as a way to connect to Spirit and evoke awareness and wisdom. I’m based in London, enjoying my beautiful husband, and our lovely dog, and everything this mad world has to offer.
Sometimes you’ve got to walk on your own!
Antonia Lyons - Energy Intuitive www.evokinggrace.com
There are times when keeping others at a distance feels necessary, even our own loved ones. Especially them, actually. “Self-preservation” they call it here in England; I call it “I never want to have my heart broken again.” And my heart did indeed break, the day I saw how things may never change within my own family. While my sister angrily vented about the same old story yet again, I suddenly had a glimpse of what the future may hold for us. I saw how, 20 years on, we would still be having the same conversation, in the same manner, using the same heavy words. And in that moment, I was called to make a quick decision: would I choose me or them? There are choices in our life that will change the course of our journey and which may take us away from our pack, The reasons behind them are often so profound, words may not be able to express their depth. We may attempt to explain, and yet our folks may not be ready to hear. Whatever the motif is, do we choose ourselves or them? Can we walk away from what no longer nurtures our hearts? Can we stay, knowing that our heart will bleed to a slow death instead? There is always a moment in our life when we know we can no longer do what everybody else has done before us and will do after us. This is the time when nights will be spent awake, agonizing over the journey to embark. We are being invited to walk a path not many dare to venture down because it will lead us away from the familiar comfort we sadly get accustomed to. Families are way too often breeding ground for unwholesome dynamics, and yet it’s all we know. No matter what our inner wisdom may be telling us, we are made to believe that it’s just how the world is. The death of the soul is when we choose someone else’s truth because we couldn’t face the consequences of our own. It is when we entrust others to know better than us, depriving ourselves of the joy to create whatever we wish to. It does not matter whether it is our own family, friends, or the world at large: our soul is demanding us to trust ourselves more than we could ever trust them. Despite feeling torn and ashamed, we will choose freedom so that we can carry on living with ourselves. Freedom to own the path only we can walk and to be who we came here to be. That day we will take a stand to all the beliefs and thoughts that we inherited along the way and were never meant to be ours. We will let our own truth define us and somehow feel strong even though we are now on our own. That day we will stop apologizing for what we could never be and start living the life only we can. Mostly we will offer our total compassion to those we grew up with, able to accept them just as they are. We may no longer wish to have them close to us, and yet we will see how, what has divided us in the first place, no longer matters. It never did really, for their darkness is your darkness also and their journey is the same that brought you in this life.
