So there’s a beautiful prayer that I say often when I pray for others and it goes like this:

I love You.

I’m sorry,

Please forgive me,

Thank You.

It’s called Ho’oponopono. You can read about this amazing prayer and how a Doctor healed an entire mentally ill ward just with this prayer. Click on the link below to read this amazing story.

But what I found so fascinating was when I started to say it to and about myself. Something inside me said you know what there’s probably a lot of things that I could forgive myself about. I started to wonder what would happen if I started saying this to myself. So one day I decided to go look in the mirror and say this prayer to myself. I started to just cry a big good cry. I mean I was bawling. It was such a release. It kinda didn’t surprise me that I had such a reaction to it because we are the hardest on ourselves. We all make mistakes but how many us really forgive ourselves for them? Or take the time to let ourselves off the hook? I’m so glad I did this because clearly I had a little self forgiveness to do. Now I personally don’t think it matters what I’m forgiving myself for. Meaning I don’t have to recall all the mistakes I’ve made or issues I’m holding on to. I think the important thing here is just to be willing to forgive what happened in the past, letting it go, and then moving on to create a joyous life. By setting myself free from any pain, I am then able to let peace come into my mind, into my body and Into my soul. And that’s exactly what I experienced afterwards. After I had this big cry I just felt this feeling of peace come over me. It was just wonderful and that is why I wanted to share it with you. Maybe you too can let yourself off the hook and do a little self forgiveness. Peace!