Insight on Forgiveness "Essential #7"

I have been reading a book by Michael R. Ellison who is CEO of TriVita. The title of his book is "10 Keys to Create Wellness" and "10 Keys to Create Wealth".

I was reading Chapter 7 on "Forgiveness", and I began to focus and identify every significant mistake in my life. I made a decision to write letters to those people who had hurt me, and I was letting them know I was forgiving them for the hurt that I had experienced. I also declared that I was setting these thoughts from my memory, and I now had freedom in my heart and mind. I asked the Lord to forgive me, and I received His forgiveness. I forgave myself.

I began to see a patern with each letter I wrote: that none of these people had done anything to hurt me. My thoughts and ways were different from theirs, and I couldn't accept their ways or thoughts so I felt rejected, and I didn't meet their approval.

Then I took a note card and began to list different people that I wanted to bless who are in my life now. This would help me to focus on the present instead of the past. When I spoke blessing over others, I discovered that I began to forget about myself.

I shredded those letters that I had written to people for they wouldn't even had any idea of the incident or that they had hurt me. Because of the freedom that I gained by forgiving and writing those letters, I sensed a physical feeling from my throat to my chest and that healing was going on in my body.