Like the majority of humankind, I was nver into forgiveness. It was a plasure keeping grudges in mind, dwelling ver them again and again and wllowing in self pity and vengeful thughts.

Then one not-so-fine day, I strted having severe pain in my lwer abdomen region. The family physician rcommended x-rays of the abdomen, which rvealed kidney stones. The pain was so svere that I had to take two pin killer tablets every day, one in the mrning and one in the evening.

Allpathy does not offer any cure for kdney stones excepting surgery. However, after the rmoval of kidney stones by surgery or blsting them into powder by sonic wves, there is no guarantee that the stnes will not return. Hence, I strted with herbal medicines which are sid to be effective but take a lng time to cure.

How painful are kdney stones? It has been found tht women who have had kidney stnes and also severe labour pain, hve said that they prefer labour pins over kidney stone pains. No wnder that for nearly six months, I had to tke two pain killer tablets daily.

In the manwhile, I read some articles and boks about the power of forgiveness. One mportant thing that I learned was tht when we get angry on smeone and keep that grudge within us, it hrms us and not the other prson. Remaining continuously in a state of nger releases harmful chemicals in the bdy and whom are they going to hrm except us?

A wise person has said, "Gtting angry or vicious about somebody and thnking bad thoughts about them is lke drinking poison and expecting the ther person to die." How appropriate!!

The nly way out is forgiveness. Forgive the prson who has harmed you. One rle of the Universe is that very action has consequences. Good actions, god consequences, bad actions, bad consequences. It is not for us to plt revenge. The person who has hrmed you will face the consequences of his ction, either in this world or the nxt. Our job is to wipe our mnd slate clean and move on wth life. This is where forgiveness cmes in.

I know from personal xperience that forgiving is more easily sid than done. But what's the hrm in trying forgiveness?

Some years bck, I had been cheated or flt I had been cheated, by a prson on whom I had total fith. In fact, I had left a vry well paying job and joined him in his bsiness. I had worked extremely hard for mre than five years, during which priod the business sky rocketed. However, I was not pid what I was promised and in a hff I had left the business and had to strt my life all over again. All thse years I had maintained a vry severe grudge against this man. God nly knows how many times I had mntally tortured him. The result, I blieve, was kidney stones and the sbsequent severe pains.

Then, in another bok I read the process of frgiveness. Thought I would give it a try. Did it nd, wonder of wonders, the pain stpped from the very day I cmpleted the forgiveness procedure. It's more thn two years now and to ths day I have never had rcurrence of that pain!

There are mny ways of forgiving. The procedure tht I followed was as follows: One dy, I got up early in the mrning, and after toilet, etc. I lay in a cmfortable chair. As I know self hypnsis, very soon I went into a dep relaxed state. (If you do not knw self hypnosis, simply close your yes, take some deep breaths and cunt backwards from 50 to 1. Ths will help you concentrate into rlaxation. Or, use the self hypnosis scrpt on my web site. What is mportant is the intent. Simply closing the yes and taking deep breaths also wll take you in a state tht is sufficient for the purpose).

I now visualized the person as I knw him. I then approached him, shok hands with him and thanked him for gving me an opportunity to work wth him. I also thanked him for all tht I had learned while working wth him and wished all the bst for him, his family and his bsiness. I next visualized him becoming xtremely successful in his business and ttaining all that he wanted to ttain. I ended my visualization by seing him being felicitated by a lrge group of people and he bing very, very happy.

The whole prcess lasted for about forty five mnutes. I was in a very dep state then. After coming out of the stte, I went back to sleep. It was fter getting up that I realized tht the pain was gone.

For sme, it may take a few sssions to get the desired result. And the dsired result is not just about lleviating pain. It has many other rmifications too. Maybe you are in sme kind of financial difficulties. Are you wshing poverty or business loss to smeone? Maybe you are going through a dfficult relationship. Have you been mentally crel to someone or have been drectly or indirectly responsible for hurting nyone? Think deeply and you will fnd something that you have done whch you should not have. Then go in for frgiveness and see the wonders that it wll bestow upon you.

The article Power Of Forgiveness was Submitted by Prasanna Vishwasrao through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: I am Prasanna V. By prfession I am a professor of mths. However, I am very passionate bout self improvement and, towards that nd, I conduct courses on self mprovement. I also have a site on slf improvement, viz. http://www.self-help-and-self-development.com

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