The Hurt Within

While you believe you are the individual self, suffering will stay with you. It is part of the script you wrote when you chose specialness over sameness. But if you use those ego pains to heal — each time you "forgive within" that which came to destroy — you take one step closer to the happiness you seek. So it would follow: the more hurts you are willing to truly forgive, the greater the happiness you will come to experience.

And it is with The Treasure Map that you will turn the ego game upside down.

You cannot offer ego forgiveness as the ego teaches, for it is Truforgiveness that you seek — where you forgive some aspect of the belief in separation, which is the true cause of every problem you make.

What once came as something to blame ("you did this to me!") now becomes a blessing. What you once cursed another for will be used as a means for true healing. Healing, in the mindset of Truforgiveness, comes to symbolise awakening: the change in perception from the wrong mind to the right. This is what true healing is — when you wake to your perfect, peaceful, powerful Self. In fact, the darkness now becomes your chance for redemption instead of your crucifixion, as you unlearn the ego's fear and remember the glorious Perfect Love of God. Without your brother highlighting where you had buried your pain, you would have no way to find your way out of the mayhem of madness and back to the Oneness of Perfect Love. This is how you become grateful for your brothers — those who are loving, and those who are seemingly not. For each, in their own way, has come to offer you a chance to remember the truth of the wholeness of holiness that belongs to the right mind of peace and love.

This thinking is completely opposite to everything the ego teaches. And even I have had my days when I found myself back in ego thinking, wishing, "If only you hadn't done that to me!" But as soon as I remembered, I would forgive within — which not only heals the pain but undoes the belief that I am a body, reminding me that I am still as God created me: safe in Heaven, only dreaming that separation from Source is possible. And even before we get that far along in the remembrance of the totality of truth, this holds: the more hurts you heal, the greater the happiness you will claim.

Truforgiveness is never for another; it is always for your Self, for it returns you to the right mind of being Perfect Love. You can only hurt where you are in need of healing, and that is always some aspect of the decision to be separate from Source.

So even though it seems another has come into your life and left you feeling less than good, the pain was already within. You projected it upon them. But now that you are aware of where you are hurting, be grateful for the opportunity to heal. It will take you one step closer to the happiness that is who You truly are — and what You are worthy and deserving of.

See everything as a blessing, for it can all be used to truly heal if you are willing to change your mind.

What can you change about your mind now? Where does judgment come to steal your peace? Are you willing to transmute this into a blessing?

We are all aware of the great depression — but one day there will come a time when The Treasure Map is spoken of as The Great Healing. 

Much love, peace, and Truforgiveness,