An Invitation to the International Day of Peace Forgiveness Masterclass

We are no nearer to any kind of significant peace in the world than we were when the “war to end all wars” ended in 1918.

I don’t believe peace will ever come from the top down. There are too many vested interests in keeping the industrial war machines going - so much money to be made from things that blow up, destroy, and then need to be repaired, rebuilt or re-supplied.

That doesn’t make our current insanity any more acceptable.

What it does mean is that we need to fully claim the power in our own hearts to create peace inside ourselves. That’s it. That’s all we can do - unless you’re a peace negotiator, in which case… blessings on your work. Otherwise…

Peace happens one heart at a time.

You have the power to choose to make your heart a garden of peace. Even if this ends up being primarily for your own benefit, it’s still worth doing. But if we’re all interconnected - if we all share one consciousness - if all of Life is “interbeing”, then it really does matter what we each keep in our hearts.

Pledge Your Heart. Be Part of a Movement Towards Peace.

Maybe it won’t work…
But what if it did?

What if we could start something from the inside out, from the bottom up, from the individual to the collective, from the parts to the whole?

Studies have shown that meditation changes your brain. When we meditate together, our hearts and minds come into coherence with each other. What if we came together and practiced the master art of letting go in our hearts?

In meditation practice, you allow everything that arises in the mind to be exactly the way it is. In a forgiveness practice, you allow everything that arises in your heart to be exactly the way it is.

This usually means being willing to sit with your experience of anger, hurt, rage, grief, disappointment, sadness, jealousy, guilt, resentment - even the desire for revenge. Not comfortable, but necessary.

Because underneath all of that is the you that was hurt, the you that was the victim of the experience. Once you take the time to attend to that part, to acknowledge all of those buried feelings, it’s possible to start to move towards forgiveness -  “the absolute refusal to hold ill will against someone for what they did or didn’t do”. To choose to let go - for your own liberation and release.

I have helped thousands of individuals, singly and in groups, to go from “I’ll never forgive you for that…” to complete release in their hearts and a sense of resolution and completion, even with the most challenging relationships in their lives.

Sometimes it takes more than one attempt - and I would boldly suggest we’ll have many people / experiences which may need to be forgiven during our lifetimes, which is why I teach forgiveness as a practice.

To me, it’s the “missing” practice that benefits our mental, emotional and relational health and has the potential to transform the world.

Forgiveness reaches the parts that other therapies, healing modalities, mindfulness, meditation, healthy eating, lifting weights and folding your body into the shapes of various exotic creatures can’t reach. All of these practices are significant and beneficial, but none of them are replacements for consciously and ceremonially choosing to let go of a grievance.

What most people don’t realize is how much of a shift you can experience in just a 90 minute masterclass. It truly can change the way you feel about someone or something.

I have done lots of forgiveness work in relation to this person and this was by far the most intimate and transformational 🙏 L.J. Nov 23

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