Last night, I fed my soul by attending a lecture by the renowned spiritual teacher and author, Marianne Williamson at Stanford University.  One of the questions that came up from the audience is “How do we forgive?”

As I listened to Marianne’s response, it felt very Shamanic to me on many levels, yet I see this piece as we extend this subject of the feeling of Anger from the Wood Element.  Yet, I find it appropriate to address this on my blog.  The Divine download came to me last night about the feelings of anger and what it really means because we are masking our true feelings, which could look like abandonment, rejection, unloved, etc. –  that have been triggered by some other event that might have happened earlier in our lives or perhaps even a past life that we might not be conscious about.  As spiritual beings having a human experience, the true core of us has no feelings of anger, but as a human we get to experience it.  So how do we forgive when these feelings come up for us.  There’s one word that I want you to get  as I struggle with these feelings myself this week, I was reminded last night when I received the Divine download – COMPASSION.  The meaning of COMPASSION is: a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.  When we are able to forgive we are able to have COMPASSION because we realize what has been dumped on us has nothing to do with us and we no longer have to sit in that role of victim. We become empowered to be the loving being that we are meant to be here on earth and experience LOVE on a different level.  The truth is that, we all just want LOVE.  When we realize this, we engage ourselves in self-love.  Self-love is self-care.  It is one of the ultimate forms of Self-Care.  What situation or person in your life could you forgive and transform those feelings to compassion?

When I show up as a shaman in my life, I can truly be the COMPASSIONATE being that I am here to be.