S2 Ep2 Forgiveness + Bonus Meditation

Hey, lovely one,

Have you ever felt crippled by past mistakes, regret, and shame? Ever wondered how to break free from the chains of the past and step into a more empowered life? We have all been there, and in this Becoming Your Warrior podcast episode, we explore the liberating power of forgiveness. We dive deep into understanding how our low self-worth can lead to harmful actions and choices. We identify these patterns and learn how to forgive ourselves and possibly others, setting the stage for personal growth and healing.

But witnessing and understanding isn’t just it. We then move into a transformative healing meditation, gently guiding you through the past experiences that may have impacted your self-worth negatively. As we revisit these memories, we offer ourselves the compassion, forgiveness, and understanding we were lacking and work towards letting go of past hurts and shame. This is not just about freeing ourselves from past mistakes but nurturing our self-worth and empowering ourselves. This episode can be the stepping stone in your journey towards a better, stronger self. Let’s embark on this transformative journey together.

With Love,
Em xx

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Transcript

0:00:01 - Speaker 1
Welcome to the Becoming Your Warrior podcast. This is the place where you get to feel inspired and empowered to step into your very best life. Hello and welcome to episode 2, season 2 of the Becoming Your Warrior podcast. This is M. This entire series is dedicated to really helping you to deep dive and grab your self-worth with both hands and really start living the life that you want to start living. 

This episode today is called Forgiveness, and I've entitled it that because, before we can move forward, before we can kind of start to pull apart low self-worth, before we can start building you up, what we have to do is the first stop, which is forgive ourselves, and it might be that we also maybe need to forgive others as well. And when you have low self-worth and when you're operating from a place of low self-worth and insecurity, what that means is that your actions and your behaviors can reflect that. So it might be things that we've touched on already is just allowing people to, you know, kind of walk all over you. It might be to accept crumbs from people in terms of their friendship or in terms of relationships. It might be that you just completely hold yourself back from doing anything or going out or, you know, even going out for a swim or something like that, just because the way that you value yourself is so low, it might also mean that in the past maybe you've cheated on people, or maybe you know you've been cheated on and allowed that behavior to continue even though you knew what was going on. So there's a lot of ways that low self-worth can play out in your behavior and if you resonate with any of those, then now is a really, really good time to really acknowledge that. 

And you know, sometimes we have these moments in our lives when we look back, and we just cringe, and we go why did I do that? You know there was a massive red flag there, why did I let that pass me by or why did I dismiss that? Or we might look back at you know, ways that we've behaved and things that we've done and actions that we've taken and feel a deep sense of shame around those as well. And now is the time just to really acknowledge that and really understand that when you are burying shame, when you're not kind of going into it and forgiving yourself for that shame, you're carrying it around with you. We've all got those moments in our lives. You know those most embarrassing moments when you've said something or done something, and it doesn't necessarily connect to self-worth, but every time you think about it you cringe, and you go oh god, why did I do that? It's so bad. 

But in this instance we're really going to those deep parts of us, those parts of us that need to be forgiven not just embarrassing moments, it's. It's parts of us that we really need to let go of and forgive and understand that we were operating from a different operating system. We're working from a place of low self-worth, and it was making us behave in a certain way. So, with that in mind, what I'd love to invite you to do is just to join me on a really beautiful meditation now, and we're actually going to go and heal those parts of you. So if you're driving, you can still do this, but obviously, focusing on the road is probably better if you're not going. Actually, and if you're able to, I'd love just to invite you just to close your eyes down and just take a few nice deep breaths in through your nose and out through your nose as you take that breath into your body and release it, just bringing in lots of calmness and just releasing any tension, and just keep that breathing going now. 

And I'd like to now invite you to go back to a time and a place that you know that you are operating now from, a place of low self-worth where you allowed somebody to treat you poorly, where you didn't use your voice. Might be a time and a place when you were so young, you just didn't have the skills, or you didn't have the freedom to speak up. Might be that you were sent some information, and you chose to ignore it. There are so many things. So just find that place for you where you know you were in a place of low self-worth. 

When you're there, I'd love you just to observe that scene now, as if it's on a giant cinema screen in front of you, and you can see yourself in that scene and just know you're just the observer now, so you're not involved, you're not reliving that scene, it's not happening again. You're just witnessing it now. As you witness it, you're witnessing it from the eyes of somebody now who have all this wisdom and all this knowledge and all these lessons, and so I'd like you now just to feel completely safe, completely at ease, and know you're completely protected, and I'd like you now just to step into that scene and walk over to yourself, and as you walk over to your younger self, I want you just to be aware of what they're doing, be aware of how they're feeling in this moment. Maybe there's an intuition that something's wrong and, as you notice this, I want you to now just pick them up or just wrap them in your arms and just hold them in your arms and just repeat these words I forgive you and thank you for going through this experience. I've learned so much from this experience, and I've learned so much from you, and it's all going to be okay, it's all going to work out. 

When you made this decision or when you made this choice, you didn't know what I know now, but now that I know, I'm coming back to say that I forgive you and I understand now why you made this choice. I understand now why you did what you did, and it's all going to be okay I love you, and I honor you, and I thank you, and I forgive you. And as you hold them in your arms, just allow them to feel that full forgiveness, that full love, that full compassion now, just allow them just to morph into you, just to become part of you, just to soak into you every blood cell, every bone, every muscle. They just soak into you and become you. And you're now going to leave that scene. You're taking this younger version of you with you, and they're full of forgiveness. You've forgiven them, they've forgiven themselves. 

You're going to step back out of that scene now and step back into your world right now and just allow that feeling of forgiveness just to flood through your body. Just allow the ease and the peace and the calm, just knowing that you're okay, knowing now that you learned that lesson, knowing now that you have forgiven yourself, you've forgiven anything else that needs to be forgiven, and you're just setting yourself free and you're now taking care of that younger self. They're safe with you. They know that you've got their back. When you're ready, just taking a few deep breaths and just slowly opening up your eyes if they were closed and just allowing yourself just to notice if you do feel any differences, if there's a lightness and a calmness and an ease about you now, and just knowing you can repeat this meditation with as many memories that you need to. This is here for you so that you can allow yourself to forgive yourself. And as you repeat this process, whenever you need to just remember that you are allowing yourself more freedom, you're cutting yourself off from any resistance, from any negativity in the past, and you're setting yourself free. And this is why it's important on our journey of self-worth that we learn to forgive ourselves on the way and don't be surprised if other memories come up if other feelings come up about situations from the past as you move through this work. And this meditation is always here for you. It's here for you whenever you need it. So just rest easy now. Just know that you've done enough. Just know that everything that's happened in your life is forgivable, and it always starts with you. You may not be in a place where you're ready to forgive others, but you can forgive yourself for whatever part you played. And as we start to come to an end now, I'd love to invite you just to listen to these final words, these final words of forgiveness, and just allow them to soak into your mind. 

I forgive myself for looking for love in places where I'm not even respected. I forgive myself for finding excuses for those who used my kindness and compassion as weapons against me. I forgive myself for trying to fit into a box, to shrink and dim my light in order to please people who never even question their hurtful behavior. I forgive myself for having stayed way too long in an environment that slowly broke my soul. I forgive myself for doubting my worth every time someone judged or rejected me. I forgive myself for having apologized for being me, with my own needs, my own limits, and my own dreams. So I'm going to sign off now, and now we're going to start moving forward. We're going to start moving forward in the next few episodes in your journey toward self-worth. As always, I love you lots. I'm sending you lots of love. Take care, and I'll see you in the next episode. Thanks for listening today and if this episode helped or inspired you, just remember to share it with friends or family who could also use some inspiration today. We are all about sharing the love. 

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