HEALTH AND WELLBEING.

On Forgiveness.

More Than we Could Imagine. 

Sometimes life hurts.

Pain in life is inevitable, whether self inflicted, when our behaviours don’t live up to our aspirations, inflicted through the actions of others or simply encountered through the rough and tumble of life itself, when ideals do not meet expectations. These siutations can naturally evoke an anger, fury, resentment or bitterness, directed towards ourselves, the world or others. These feelings can play out within the soundscapes of our minds and bodies. An understandable attempt for the body to remember to protect itself from further harm. However these protections can also keep the world out, building walls within that can dull and numb. Forgiveness, the very delicate and a courageous art, so often tied to the religious, maybe more rooted in the physical, the gentle and intentional act of choosing to let go.

It is not a condoning of actions, but a deeper understanding. A willingness to except and see things as they are rather than how you would like them to be.

Forgiveness may lead us down a rocky confronting path that sometimes we are unable to fully follow Or it may not be a path that we chose not to go down at all. An approach that does not resonate.

But when and if forgiveness is wanting to be found, more for ourselves than for others— even in part — it offers the body a chance to yield, to heal. It is an acceptance that life indeed does and will hurt and that these hurts are not always intended. It maybe the lens which allows us to see that life is infinitely more painful and more beautiful than we could ever imagine.

15th May. 2025.