Jim McDonald
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Simple Meditations to
Facilitate Your
Peaceful Awareness
Guided Practices
Volume I (Audio CD)
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Who Would I Be Without
Based on A True Story of a Little Willingness
Published by
Telemachus Press, LLC
Illusive Secrets:
Discovering the Power of Self-Honesty
Published by
Telemachus Press, LLC
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Letting Go and Acceptance become our natural experience rahter than techniques to practice when we are unable to let go or accept!
Is it possible to truly forgive and forget?
We tell ourselves it is because we have to. Somewhere deep inside we tell ourselves that if we can’t “forgive and forget”, we’ll be miserable. This unconscious thought points to a future so frightening we must suppress it in order to survive. Life can be so much more than mere survival if we find the willingness to look deeper into ourselves. Looking deeper we find guidance hidden behind our fears, and in the realm of this topic, we can find clarity and freedom.
The freedom comes when we recognize that our judgment of others, and judging must have occurred if forgiveness is necessary, is the cause of our fear and suffering. When we judge another, we suffer, often much more than the one being judged.
In actuality, when we judge, we say, “You are guilty, not me…” and if we listen to the ego system telling us that judging them as guilty makes us feel better, then we are surely lost. We do feel better initially, but that lasts only a moment until suffering surfaces in the form of frustration, anxiety, anger, irritation, and on and on.
We are lost because the results of our judgment never really go away. Sure, we may be quite efficient in covering them up, ignoring them, or repressing them, but they remain nonetheless. The very structure of judgment makes forgive and forget impossible, and if we look with eyes of loving honesty, we find that even though we tell ourselves we have “forgiven”, the guilt remains. The resistance to owning this is enormous but can be overcome through looking and noticing who we are, how we feel and how we experience ourselves in the moment of judgment or anytime after.
True freedom in the world, true freedom to love self and others unconditionally, comes when we suspend all judgment. Live and let live; we say it, but to experience it is to experience joy and love on levels we rarely, if ever, experience.
Judgment makes forgive and forget impossible.
Judgment makes live and let live impossible.
Judgment, is why we suffer.
About Jim McDonald
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Jim shares his powerful message of expanding self-awareness and inner peace by becoming students of our experiences in his books, workshops, and personal coaching sessions.
Author of:
- Who Would I Be Without: Based on a True Story of a Little Willingness - Fiction
- Illusive Secrets: Discovering the Power of Self-Honesty - Non-fiction
- Illusive Secrets II: Embracing Your True Self - Non-fiction
- Guided Practices: Volume I - Guided Meditations to Facilitate Your Peaceful Awakening - Audio CD
Jim McDonald
Student of Experience™
Author
Spiritual Life Coach
Group Coaching
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