Ask your spiritual Guidance (whatever that is for you): What is the truth about the thoughts/false beliefs you may have uncovered in Step Three?
Ask: What is the loving behavior toward your Inner Child in this situation? What is in your highest good? What is kind to yourself?
Open and allow the answers to come through you in words, pictures, feelings, dreams, in talking with another, or in reading a book. The answers may not come immediately, but if you have a sincere desire to learn, they will come.
Forgiveness is the natural outcome of doing your inner work. As you learn to embrace and heal your own wounded self with love, you see that others' unloving behavior toward you came from a small wounded child within. Compassion for yourself and your woundedness leads to compassion for others and their woundedness. Forgiveness occurs naturally through your compassion for yourself and others.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
