How to Forgive and Let Go of Your Past

Welcome to today's video. Today I'm going to teach you how to forgive yourself and how to forgive others so that you can have more calm, peace, and happiness in your life. Let's dive in. What I'm going to talk to you about today can absolutely change your life and make your life so much easier. It's just so much weight that will be lifted off of your shoulders when you learn how to do this. It will bring so much peace into your life, and it is extremely simple. But just because it's simple doesn't mean that it's easy. And so this is gonna be a really, really deep episode, and I'm gonna talk to you about how to forgive anyone in your life and also how to let go so you don't carry burdens with you anymore. It's like that quote, the mountains that you're carrying, you're only meant to climb. And so today we're just gonna talk about forgiveness. We're gonna talk about that. And I've talked with many people who have said when I'm like, hey, you need to learn how to forgive, they're like, no, I would never forgive them. You don't know what they did to me. Forgiveness is never for the other person. Forgiveness is for you. So the burden of holding onto it and the way that I've changed my perception, because for the longest time I held grudges and I didn't want to forgive people and all of that, but it's really hard to have the profession that I have and not just every single day, be humbled by the experiences and the life that people have, all of the things they have to go through in their childhood and in their life and the stuff that they go through. It's really hard not to have compassion for people. And what I have come to realize and truly believe deep down in my soul is that at the core of every person that you meet is innocence. Every single person, at their core, if all of them, all of that stuff at the core of them is good and stuff happens in life that takes them away from that, but it doesn't mean that's not who they truly are. It just means that they are lost in some sort of way. You know, we don't necessarily stay innocent. Things happen, trauma happens, society happens, the world happens. And what we're all searching for in this world is peace. We're not searching for happiness. That's a fleeting emotion. It's here. Sometimes you could be happy. You wake up and you're happy in the morning. You had A great cup of coffee, Someone cuts you off in the waves for work and it just screws up your entire day. You get pissed, right? That's happiness. Peace is just a state of being. I remember one time I was working with a coach years ago, and he's like, what do you want in your life? And I was like, you know what I want more of? I realize that this has nothing to do with. You might think that it does. It has to do with probably their lack of love for themselves, which came from a lack of love that probably came from their parents. And then, you know, they have to go search for someone else to try to fill a void that they can't fill because their parents didn't give them the love that they wanted or deserved when they were a child. It's a search for love, is what it is. It's a search for acceptance. It's a search for self worth. That's what it is. It has nothing to do with you. It has to do with a wounded child that's now an adult. There's only this. There's only insanity and there's sanity. And when I say this, when I say insanity, I don't mean like clinically insane. But what I mean is sanity is to be in a state where you do right for yourself and you do right for other people. That's what sanity is. You're doing right for yourself, you're doing right for other people. Insanity is to be in a state that hurts other people. And when you hurt others, you hurt yourself, which is also even more insanity. Because what happens is when you hurt somebody else, you carry that wrongdoing with you. Everything in this world is just basically love and fear. You've heard that before. Love is sanity. Anything that is not love is insanity, right? Love, sanity, everything else, that's not love. Insanity. Everyone is just where they are and they're doing the best that they can with what they have. And once you, like, really understand that at your core, it's so much easier to forgive too. Everyone's doing the best they can. And if they really screwed up, that was the best lost. They do not know what they're actually doing, because if they did, if they had the awareness to think about how their actions are affecting other people around you, and they're able to feel what it feels like to be affected by them. If they were to put yourself in your shoes, they wouldn't do it. They do not know what they're actually doing. So in some sort of way, they're lost. Anyone who has hurt you is hurting themselves because they're taking actions that are bringing them further away from their true self. They're walking further off the track into the woods. They're lost in some sort of way. And so to hold on to resentment towards that person who is lost only hurts us. And so now we have a lost person, and now we have a hurt person. Well, I would at least like to not be hurt anymore and let go of that. And if they want to find themselves and not be lost anymore, that's up to them. And so I don't want to hold any resentment towards people. And so for me, when something happens to me, I'll feel things and I'll feel emotions and all that. But then I start to think about how can I just let go of this? How can I not hold resentment? How can I forgive this person? And it's like the phrase, like Mark Twain says. He says anger and resentment is the acid that burns the vessel. It's the acid that burns the vessel. It's like holding onto a hot coal and hoping that that hot coal hurts somebody else. No, you have to let it go. That's the only way. And so that anger and that resentment, it's just that you're white knuckling your way through life sometimes, you know, like for instance, I'll give you an easy example, right? If someone breaks into your house and they steal stuff from you, you can not want to forgive them. You can be mad at them for what they did, but I promise you this, at their core, they don't want to be doing what they're doing. They don't want to be doing what they're doing. That might be a 27 year old adult, but really what it is, it's. It's a grown up child in an adult body who was not loved correctly. Or it's someone who thinks that the world is not safe because their parents didn't make them feel safe. And now they feel like I need to go take from other people to be able to make money, to feel more stable, to feel more safe, because I don't never. I've never felt that safety in my life because it was never given to me in my childhood. It's someone that's hurting. And when we can see that it's someone that's hurting, it's easy to have more empathy for that person and have more peace. Hey, real quick, I want to introduce you to something called Mindset Mentor. Plus, if you love this podcast, you will absolutely love what I'm about to Talk about. I designed Mindset Mentor plus to help you actively integrate every one of these episodes into your life. And here's how it works. With every episode of this podcast that comes out, Mindset Mentor plus subscribers get more. You're going to get multiple page detailed, printable worksheets. Effectively a mini masterclass that's way more in depth than just this podcast. They also come with journaling questions, challenges, assignments, and so much more. So that you're not just listening to these podcasts passively, but you're actively integrating them into your life. That way you improve much faster. I also do monthly Q and A sessions in there and much, much more. If you want to learn more about it, go to mindsetmentor.com or click the link that's down in the description. And one of the things that really helped me with this, just to give you guys an idea, was I remember there was one moment I had a coach of mine that asked me, do you hold any resentment towards your pants? And I was like, no, I don't think so. I think I've gotten over everything with my dad. I think everything's good with my mom. He's like, okay, I want you to sit with that question. I kind of sat with it and I was like, you know what? I do think I resent my dad. And so I started working through it and journaling it. And you know, for those of you that don't know my story, if this is your first episode to listen to. My parents got divorced when I was 10. Cause my father's an alcoholic. My father passed away when I was 15 from liver failure, from being an alcoholic. There's obviously childhood trauma that comes with having an alcoholic father. And after really sitting with it, I was like, you know what? I do resent my dad and many ways he wasn't there for me to teach me how to be a man, how to shave, how to, you know, interact with people in the world, how any of those things, like he wasn't there for me in those moments. And so I started feeling that resentment. And then I was like, well, why wasn't he there for me? Why did he become an alcoholic? I started getting deeper and deeper into it and I was taken back in like a meditation session to think about my dad when he was a child, you know. So I was seeing, I was, I was mad at the 48 year old man who caused the trauma in my life, who was an alcoholic, who didn't overcome it, and who passed away when he was 48 years old. What I Didn't see was the child that was still wounded inside of him that made him become an alcoholic and have an addiction. And so I started thinking about that, like, well, what actually happened? And if you don't know the story of that, my father, when he was 12 years old, heard a gunshot. He walked into his parents room and his dad had just shot himself in the mouth of the shotgun. So my dad walked into the room right after his father had killed himself. And so that was 12 years old. And so once I thought of that and I put myself in my dad's place and in his shoes, I was like, oh my God, I can't have resentment towards a 48 year old man. Because what I really need to do is show love to the 12 year old child. And it completely changed the way that I had thought about everyone else in my life and everyone that I come in contact with. And I realized that any person who shows up in a way that doesn't feel real and authentic and loving and truthful, hurts you, screws you over, steals from you, breaks your heart, whatever it might be, is a child that just has some sort of wound that they never really overcame. And when you can start to see that, you can start to have empathy for people. And that changing my. There is no resentment that exists inside of me for my father after realizing this. And I was like, he was just, I can't imagine what that 12 year old boy had to go through, you know, and so I can't be mad at the 48 year old guy. What I need to do is I need to, I need to show love and energetically think about showing love to that 12 year old child. And so you can see the adults, but you can also see the hurt child that's behind it. If you could see the hurt child that's behind it. Oh my God. Forgiveness is so much easier. If somebody you know cheats on you, you're in a relationship with them that has nothing to do with you. You have to realize that this has nothing to do with you. You might think that it does. It has to do with probably their lack of love for themselves, which came from a lack of love that probably came from their parents. And then, you know, they have to go search for someone else to try to fill a void that they can't fill because their parents didn't give them the love that they wanted or deserved when they were a child. It's a search for love is what it is. It's a search for acceptance, it's a search for self Worth. That's what it is. It has nothing to do with you. It has to do with a wounded child that's now an adult. There's only this. There's only insanity, and there's sanity. And when I say this, when I say insanity, I don't mean, like clinically insane, but what I mean is sanity is to be in a state where you do right for yourself and you do right for other people. That's what sanity is. You're doing right for yourself, you're doing right for other people. Insanity is to be in a state that hurts other people. And when you hurt others, you hurt yourself, which is also even more insanity. Because what happens is when you hurt somebody else, you carry that wrongdoing with you. Everything in this world is just basically love and fear. You've heard that before. Love is sanity. Anything that is not love is insanity. Right? Love, sanity, everything else. That's not love. Insanity. Everyone is just where they are. They're doing the best that they can with what they have. And once you, like, really understand that at your core, it's so much easier to forgive, too. Everyone's doing the best they can. And if they really screwed up, that was the best that they could do in that moment. But I promise you this. If you were in their exact same shoes, you went through their exact same childhood, had their exact same parents, went through their exact same raising in all of the millions of little teeny tiny seconds and things that have happened in their life, you would be exactly the same as them. You would make the same choices. We like to think like, oh, I would never be like them if I had their life. No, no, no, you would. You would make the exact same choices. Someone's actions are always a reflection of their consciousness. You know, when you look at. I like to look, and I'm not religious in any sort of way, but I like to look at all the different texts that are out there, the different figures that are out there, and say, like, can I get some inspiration from this? And a good. A good person you can take the inspiration from is. Is whether you believe in him or not. You can just take the story if you want to. Is Jesus right? The story of Jesus being murdered at the moment where he's being murdered, he says, father, forgive them, for they know not what they're doing. He even saw. He could see past their actions to the consciousness that they were. And see, they do not know what they're doing. They are lost. A sane person would never do those actions. Get it? So that's really what it comes down to, what our truest self should see is a sick person that's in need of healing for the, you know, in that case of the people that's murdering somebody else, that's a sick person that's in need of healing. Somebody cheats on somebody else, that's a sick person in need of healing. Somebody who screws somebody over, steals from them, that's a sick person that's in need of healing in some way. What the ego sees is an evil person that's in need of punishing, right? But what your truest self, you could take a step back is a person who is sick that needs some healing in some sort of way. And so everyone wants happiness and everyone wants peace. Even the person that's screwing you over wants peace and happiness as well. But everyone is always doing what they believe will bring them happiness and peace. And if we judge and condemn that person, we strengthen that within them. So if I. If someone steals from me, right, And I judge and condemn that person, I strengthen that version of them that is a thief. So if someone steals from me and then I judge them and I condemn them and I call them a thief and I do whatever it is, I'm strengthening their own identity as a thief. And they're thinking in their head, I'm a thief. Which then makes them more likely to create actions in the future, as a thief would. So what's the best thing for me to release it, let it go? That person could do whatever they want to, but I'm not going to reflect the thief back to them because I want them to hopefully be able to break that pattern that they're in. Someone's a thief and they're a cheater and they're screwing someone over. They're doing whatever it is, they don't feel good about what they did. I promise you that. Their truest self, their core, their deep consciousness behind all of it, they know that it's wrong. But if we judge that person, if we label them, it strengthens that belief that that's what they are and they're more likely to do it again in the future. So I want to at least try to break that pattern. I want to release it for myself and hopefully maybe they can release it in themselves so they don't do it to someone else again, right? Because if I say it to them, they see it in themselves and they're continued to keep doing the thing, think, oh, that's who I am, I'm a thief. Oh, I'm a cheater. I'm going to do this. Oh, I'm a person who's screws people over, whatever it is, I'm not going to play a part in that thought that they have of themselves. The hardest part to do is to try to forgive and to love that person. If you could try to forgive and love somebody, it allows you to release it and at the same time it allows them to start releasing it as well. I remember seeing a video there one time. It was like a really touching video, and there was a lady whose son was murdered by. It's like this teenage boy. Her teenage son was murdered by this teenage boy for like a couple hundred bucks or something like that. And it was a video of them in the trial. And, you know, the kid was sentenced, whatever it was happened. And then the mother came up, mother of the murdered son comes up to the kid who murdered her son and she said, I forgive you. Can I give you a hug? And then he gave her. She gave him a hug, and this kid just broke down in tears. If a woman can forgive somebody who murdered her son, I'm pretty sure all of us can try to work to forgive somebody else. Because what she was able to see in that moment was that was a child that probably just wasn't loved in his childhood. I'm going to give him that love. I'm going to release it for myself and hopefully be able to release it from him as well. And so that's really what it comes down to. So that's forgiveness of other people. When we're talking about forgiving other people, we're also talking about forgiving ourself. The hardest person to forgive a lot of times is yourself. And if you're going to be able to go on this path of forgiveness for other people, you have to do it for yourself. If other people are doing the best that they can with whatever they have. Of course, you were always doing the best that you could with whatever you had. So if you did something three years ago and you're still beating yourself up for it, it's time for you to let it go. It's time for you to forgive that person, that version of you that you were, because you did the best that you could in that moment. And so if you're going to forgive other people, you've also got to go on the journey of starting to forgive yourself. If you can do that, man, I'm telling you this, your life will be so much more calm, so much more peaceful. When you can forgive other people, you can forgive yourself and you can just decide to go on your path and not let anything affect you, no matter what it is that happens. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If this episode impacted you, please do me a favor, share it on your Instagram stories. Tag me at robdial Junior R O B D I A L J R Also at the same time, if you love this podcast, you'll probably love something I have that's called Mindset Mentor plus. Mindset Mentor plus is for every single episode that comes out of this podcast. Mindset Mentor plus subscribers are going to get a whole lot more. So they get multiple detailed multi page worksheets, 3, 4, 5, 6 pages sometimes, that go deeper into every single episode than just the podcast does. You can print these out, you can underline them, you can highlight them. 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