After we have increased our level of awareness, acceptance, and responsibility, that I spoke of in the previous article, the next step in liberating our energy, consciousness, and our ability to truly change our beliefs is

FORGIVENESS

To forgive is to give up all claim to punish, or "make someone pay". It has nothing to do with the loving and self-respecting desire to contribute to a balanced flow of contribution in Life. It has to do with what is in your heart.

For example, if you one day realize that you have spent the last twenty years of your life doing as little as possible in your job to get by -- and you also realize you don't want to do that anymore -- you have a choice. You can judge and beat yourself up for that, OR you can give up any claim to punish yourself, and simply learn the lesson at hand -- maybe that you want to become a more generous contributer from now on. Then focus your energies on that. Obviously, the same "forgiveness" principle applies to forgiving others as well.

Here's a bonus tip! When you are doing your forgiveness work, also give other people permission to forgive you (even if you just do this in the privacy of your own "space").

Forgiveness frees up life energy and allows our heart to be open once again. When our heart is open, we become more magnetic to our true purpose and desires. This certainly contributes to our abundance and financial prosperity.

An open heart also increases the flow of joy in our lives.

Now, we are ready for our next step …

GRATITUDE

After we truly forgive, we are available to the powerful and healing energy of gratitude. This wondrous energy taps up even more fully into our hearts, and opens our minds to discover the resources and opportunities at hand.

One practice that has helped me and many others is the following:

When you wake up (and before you get out of bed), ask yourself "What is ONE THING I COULD feel grateful for today?" … Then ALLOW an answer to come to you … Then FEEL the feeling of gratitude in your body for a little while … Then repeat this for a total of 5 times.

When you are in bed ready to go to sleep at night, do this again -- only change the wording to "Looking back on the day, what is ONE THING I COULD feel grateful for?"

This exercise -- done regularly -- produces excellent results, both in terms of increasing your enjoyment of life, and in terms of your ability to attract more of what really nurtures you at a deep level …

Try it … You'll like it!

Once you get the hang of this gratitude thing, you can then start applying it to situations you used to resist!

For example, you could even be grateful that the policeman stopped you for speeding, so that you could re-dedicate yourself to safer driving! … or you could be grateful that you have an opportunity to practice your "traffic school learning gig"! … The opportunities for practicing gratitude are all around us.

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