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Law of Forgiveness: 12 Spiritual Laws for Addiction Recovery

Over the next several weeks we’ll be posting about the 12 Spiritual Laws that our residents learn to understand and practice throughout their 90 day stay at the Mark Houston Recovery Center.

Spiritual Law #10: The Law of Forgiveness

Forgive… in your heart and to all.

To truly actualize the experience of the Law of Forgiveness requires a great deal of practice because of how our minds and ego work.

Mark’s personal experience with The Law of Forgiveness

Whenever I felt hurt or threatened, a part of me immediately reacted with anger that was driven by fear. I would follow that with a mental dialogue where I would ask “how could they have done that to me!?” etc. I would then become stuck in resentments which separated me from my true self, from my Higher Power, and from others.

This type of reaction serves no benefit to anyone. Instead of continuing this way, I chose to adopt the law of forgiveness.

At the Mark Houston Recovery Center, we teach our men that human beings are conditioned and programmed from birth in terms of all of our belief systems. We see our role models practicing resentment and fear based anger far more than forgiveness. As a result, we have not developed the skill of forgiveness and do not understand the magnitude of how forgiveness can impact our lives for the better.

When we realize that most people are not choosing to create harm to us, but are simply driven by their own conditioning and programming it becomes easier to forgive. This, coupled with the belief that if more people were awake spiritually they would cause fewer harmful actions, and I begin to forgive others and free myself from the role of the victim.

Share Your Experiences

Have you witness the Law of Forgiveness in your own life or in the life of someone you know?

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