Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Guilt [7 of 12]

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C. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience

Passive participation is individualized and varied, promoting a variety of potential emotional responses.  This section suggests strategies for healing and actions for transforming the experience based upon emotional responses rather than categories of roles in the conflict. There are many paths to healing these injuries from passive participation in conflict. The following are merely suggestions on how one might approach healing and transforming the emotional responses.  

3. Guilt

            a. Practice: FORGIVE guilt

                   - Freedom: allow yourself the room to be as you are and be happy now

                   - Open to receive life’s gifts and to share the gift of your precious life

                   - Release ideas of difference/meaning/explanations: accept what is now

                   - Gratitude: seek support from past/future and live to honor past/future

                   - Include: heal own wounds of exclusion to allow true inclusion

                   - Value resilience: water seeds of resilience & forgiveness to self/others
 
                   - Embrace opportunity: all parts are in us – use wholeness well


           b. Transforming Action:

                   - Mindful of self: gratitude for life and support of all around and past/future

                   - Mindful of others: focus on forgiveness self/other and honor resilience

                   - Participate in efforts sharing your power in personal, community, global