Forgiveness is a learnt emotion, consequence more than emotion. Compassion is innate, and, like all emotions, it may be enhanced or supressed. It depends on our inner intention which creates the circumstances we would like to experience in our lives – our life experiences – if we would attract compassion boosters or stoppers.
We will usually emulate the emotional expression of the people most important to us at every moment in time.
Forgiveness, though, is learnt. Like every other skill we learn. It is a skill. We sometimes learn something before we need it. The other times we learn because we need to know, or to do, or to build, or to get a result.
If you learnt forgiveness before you needed it, good for you😇 You use it now like an automatic pilot of the airplane. It may bring you the memory of the person showing you forgiveness, which is always a dear memory. And you’ll do it again.
If you want to learn forgiveness, find somebody expressing it. It helps if you like the person. It doesn’t if you don’t – most surely you’ll go awat and drop it. Still, if your desire is strong enough and you are curious enough, you’ll find that person and you will start to emulate their behaviour just because you like them. And there you are, all good with forgiveness.
Yet, if you need to learn forgiveness, it’s a little bit more complicated. It is not too late, and the cause is not lost. You cannot emulate somebody in your past or present – most likely there’s nobody there you can think of. You will take the mind approach, mastering the knowledge and then experiencing it. You will gather different reasons as why to forgive, why it is important, how exactly it is done, what are the consequences. And only after that you will shyly step on and try it in real life. Just as an experiment. You will see what’s going on. And then you will decide for more.
There are many types of forgiveness. They will surprise you every time. Until they don’t.
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