By Susan Schenck

On her deathbed, my mother’s final words to me were, “Susan, forgive everyone!” I said I thought I had already. She said, “Dig deeper!” This book is helping me to do just that!

When I first got The Law of Forgiveness (Berkley Trade/ Nov 2009) I assumed it would be just another book telling me that I would feel so much better if I could forgive everyone, including myself of course. But my interest peaked when I realized it offers so much more than that. The author discovered while giving Law of Attraction workshops that when people really forgave others, they would start manifesting their goals and dreams at a much accelerated rate! She claims that there is a law of forgiveness, just as there is a law of gravity or attraction.

The author discusses the importance of forgiveness in all the major world religions. Then she discusses her personal journey and discovery of this law. She knew she was on to something big when a woman in her class was able to manifest a brand new building for her charter school in only 8 months (the usual time, from the author’s experience, being 5 years). People who had spent tens of thousands of dollars on law of attraction books, seminars, coaches, CDs and DVDs were finding results much faster with her workshop. Many testimonials are given, such as people forgiving someone who owed them money, and receiving the payment within a week after forgiving.

The book presents everything you need to know and would learn in the workshop. Guidelines are given such as whom to forgive, how to know if we need to forgive, what to do if someone should forgive you. We need to forgive not just people, but organizations, institutions and governments. It is explained that you are doing the forgiving for yourself—to set free the negative energy that has been blocking you—and you don’t even need to contact the person you are forgiving. Instead, you have an imaginary meeting with them (and really, you’re talking to their Higher Self). Also, your  forgiving doesn’t mean that you condone the action of the person you forgive. There is also a 3-step technique for forgiving in relationships. The techniques in this book also unite forgiving and goal setting, which are usually in the areas of money, career, relationships and health.

There are also 3 affirmations to use. These affirmations do not include blame, a demand for conditions, or any negativity. One is an affirmation to forgive others, one is for others to forgive you, and one is to forgive yourself (probably the one most needed since we are our harshest critic!)

Forgiveness breaks a bond of negativity, and many people find that the person they forgave will contact them or run into them out of the blue, even if they haven’t had contact in years! The forgiven one is also transformed. An example is given of a woman who forgave her father for molesting her. She hadn’t talked to him in 3 years. About a week after she forgave him, he suddenly called and wanted to meet her; when they met, he asked for her forgiveness!

The author includes a chapter on the scientific studies on forgiveness (though they focus on the person’s resulting emotional well being and not on the law of attraction that unfolds). There is also a chapter on using the law of forgiveness to heal relationships, along with a PESC technique (problem, emotion, solution, and consequences). Case studies are included.

Additional chapters include using the forgiveness techniques for work, using it for healing, how forgiveness unblocks the energy for justice to be served, reaching a higher state of consciousness via forgiving, and much more. Anecdotes and examples are mentioned throughout the book, and we are left with a delightful feeling of eagerness to forgive so we can graduate to higher levels of living.

Susan Schenck is author of The Live Food Factor

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