humanity and loving ourselves for having these judgments, including the one that says we must be a spiritually moribund person for creat- ing this reality. Our judgments are part of ourselves, so we must love them as we love ourselves. Doing this connects us with what is actually happening in our body and mind and brings us into the present through our feelings. Our energy then shifts quickly and allows us to go to the third and fourth steps of this process.
Step Three: “I am willing to see the perfection in the situation.”
The “willingness” step is the essential step in the Radical Forgiveness process. It equates to a prayerful surrendering in the moment to the divine plan and the willingness to love ourselves for not being able to see this plan directly.
Step Four: “I choose the power of peace.”
This fourth step represents a consequence of all the previous steps. By accepting that divine purpose is served in this situation and that what appears to be occurring may be illusory, we choose to feel peace and to use the power of peace in whatever actions are required of us. The power of peace is found when we are fully present in the moment, act- ing with clarity and focus to do whatever may be required, and being completely aware of our feelings.
As Above, So Below
Humanity as a whole may soon be faced with the same choice that confronts each one of us as individuals. The decision is to heal by choice or by trauma. Many visionaries claim that all the signs are present that point toward humankind receiving a massive demonstration of the heal-by-choice-or-trauma principle in the very near future. The Earth has a cancer, and it is called the human race. This living, breathing, con- scious planet has been in a state of perfect balance its entire life, with every little part doing what it must to sustain the system in balance. This is analogous to the job done by healthy cells in the human body.
For thousands of years we have been part of that balanced system. In the last few hundred of them, however, we have put ourselves above the natural order and have come to believe that we can control and dominate the entire system. Just as a cancer cell multiplies out of control, metastasizes throughout the system, and begins to devour its host, so we continue to multiply exponentially out of control all over the planet and to plunder its natural resources as if nothing mattered beyond the satisfaction of our greed.
Like a tumor wrapping itself around the heart or blocking a lung, so do we, in the same kind of deadly embrace with our own life source, chop down forests, pollute the very air we breathe, and poison the environ- ment. Scientists are telling us that we are close to destroying life as we know it within the next forty to fifty years if we don’t make dramatic changes. The greatest need, however, is for a change in consciousness. Collectively, we must change mass consciousness or face unprecedented trauma at such a level that all the structures maintaining our present lifestyle will be swept away.
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The Gift
The adage “as above, so below” is meaningful, in terms of how we respond to both the cancer in our bodies and the cancer on the planet. Waging “war” on cancer with toxic drugs and other violent treatment will never bring about a cure for cancer. Violent, high-tech, politically motivated solutions to the earth’s problems won’t work either. The only thing that will work, in both cases, is love. When we really comprehend this, we will have understood the gift of both earth changes and cancer. No lesson is more crucial than this one. People with cancer are brave souls who have come to the physical plane with a mission to dem- onstrate the futility of projecting anger and war on the body and on ourselves. Their mission is to help us understand that the only answer to any situation is love. Our gift in return is to hear their loving message.
Visions of Joy, Harmony, and Peace
Whether or not we raise our vibration sufficiently to prevent trauma and come into loving resonance with all of life voluntarily, the end result will ultimately be the same. All the predictions about earth changes speak of a breakthrough in consciousness happening in the wake of the earth cleansing itself and balancing the karma we have created. A vision of life after the earth changes as wonderfully harmo- nious, peaceful, and idyllic, in stark contrast to the way it is today, is a common theme running through many of the predictions.
As in all healing opportunities, we can heal our soul pain at the first sign of the repressed pain occurring, or we can wait until a disaster wakes us. However the earth changes occur and at whatever level of destruction the planetary karma plays out, the changes will constitute the ultimate healing crisis for the planet and for all of us. That will certainly be in divine order.
Raising our vibration enough to change the predictions must include living our lives based on love and gentle acceptance of ourselves and others and forgiving ourselves for abusing the planet. It must include joining in prayer for peace, with as many people as possible from around the world involved, and embracing Radical Forgiveness as noth- ing less than a permanent way of life.
This article has been excerpted with slight adaptations from Radical Forgive- ness by Colin Tipping. (Sounds True, January 2010)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Colin Tipping is the creator of ‘one of the most powerful, leading-edge technologies for personal and spiritual growth today’ – Radical Forgiveness. Born in England, Tipping taught at London University before immigrating to the United States in 1984. With his wife JoAnn, he cofounded the Georgia Cancer Help Program and Together We Heal, Inc., and founded The Institute for Radical Forgiveness Therapy and Coaching, Inc. in the U.S., Australia, Poland, and Germany. Radical For- giveness sold more than 100,000 copies in the U.S. and became an international bestseller. In addition, Tipping has authored a series of books, audios, online programs and even a board game based on the practice of Radical Forgiveness.
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