Inner Peace

A lot of messages on forgiveness are often on how to forgive other people. We sometimes focus more on working out our relationships with our spouses, children, parents, siblings and colleagues, but ourselves.

Don’t spend so much time worrying about what your friend or neighbour thinks of you, without correcting the wrong thoughts you hold of yourself.

Have you lost a chance of getting married to your Prince charming because you took the wrong advice? Have you lost a substantial amount of money because you ignored your ‘sixth sense’? Are you stuck in a job you don’t like because you dropped out of school? Have you lost a once-in-a-life time opportunity because you got pregnant as a teenager?

Please, FORGIVE yourself, learn from it and move on. Sometimes, we are our own worse critics, instead of cheerleaders. We judge ourselves so harshly that it ends up spilling over to other people. I think most times, the judgment and harshness we mete out to others in frustration are often a tip of what we bottle in; “for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.”.

If you still have the weight of some mistakes you made in your past hanging over you, please forgive yourself. True peace and freedom come from within you, exercise the same power you deploy in forgiving others to forgive yourself. To love your neighbour as you love yourself means that you cannot love anyone more than you truly love yourself.

Look for a quiet place right now, call your name out loud and declare, Victor Akunna, I forgive you for …………

You are Great!

Victor Akunna
Romance & Relationship Catalyst
Foundation For Family Affairs