Forgiveness, Meditation, and Positive Affirmations

Forgiveness might feel challenging and difficult to acknowledge, especially if both of you feel the same way about the arguments. Arguments in relationships can often make one feel distant and disappointed. Other times arguments can reveal hidden secrets, truths, or other untold emotions. Yet, forgiveness can make both of you feel better after the arguments. As well as strengthening your relationship and having more open communication with each other. 

Meditation and forgiveness can be practiced together to improve your relationship. Although this might be tough at first, practicing forgiveness can make you honest and be able to trust your partner. Additionally, seeking professional counseling to understand your partner and their feelings as they learn to forgive. Struggling to forgive your partner can be caused by holding too much pain and worrying that the relationship might change for the worse. Yet, past experiences can also make it difficult to forgive yourself and to forgive your partner. 

However, practicing staying calm with meditation can help you focus on your thoughts. As well as noticing your body movements and how you feel at that moment. Learning to forgive yourself and remaining calm without interrupting your partner can show respect towards your partner. It can also permit you to accept them and to forgive them. Although it can be confusing, difficult, and not easy to express oneself towards your partner; But sometimes one feels pressured to ask for forgiveness no matter how one feels after arguing. 

Meditation can make you release those hurtful emotions and feelings along with forgiveness. Releasing negative emotions, negative thoughts, and letting go without being too defensive with your partner. To practice forgiveness and meditation, find a corner in your room to do breathing techniques with positive affirmations. Use positive affirmations for forgiveness towards yourself. Last, writing positive affirmations for your partner and understanding their perspectives without getting angry. 

Here is a brief list of positive affirmations to help you begin your positive affirmations for forgiveness. Although your feelings might not change quickly, reading positive affirmation can help you with your healing process. Also, to improve your mindset with more optimism and to be open to forgiveness. Take one positive affirmation to read and to write in your journal per day. Nonetheless, these twelve positive affirmations can help you get started to practice forgiveness with meditation or with mindfulness. 

1. I accept my mistakes and let them go.
2. I acknowledge my dislikes and continue smiling.
3. I forgive myself for my inner peace.
4. I forgive others for their inner peace and give them kindness.
5. I let go of resentment, disrespectful actions, and disappointments.
6. I let go of past hurts and regrets. 
7. I accept my failures and continue improving myself.
8. I acknowledge my faults and accept my partner’s faults.
9. I forgive my partner as I continue to understand their perspectives.
10. I let go of any errors, anger, and sadness that I feel at this moment. 
11. I am treating myself with self-compassion, self-respect, and self-worth. 
12. I am treating myself with love, joy, and with hope for self-growth. 

Sometimes having doubts can make it difficult to forgive. Yet, self-forgiveness can be done with meditation by practicing visual meditation, listening to guided meditation, and by sitting in a comfortable position to practice box breathing. Practice forgiveness as a couple by noticing how each other feels and by writing down each other’s thoughts. If you or your partner have a tough time with feelings and thoughts; Both of you can describe how each other feels by expressing it through writing about the experiences or how the arguments made both of you feel. Practice self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-control with one’s emotions by giving your partner space for self-care and for calming down. Forgive each other when both of you are calm and ready to forgive one another. 

Write down your apology together at the same time while sitting back-to-back. Another way is to practice rose meditation or using another flower to exchange as both of you forgive each other. Sit in front of each other and hold hands as you practice mindfulness touching or simply hold hands and say “I forgive you” at the same time. If your partner likes to drink hot tea or eat chocolate in the mid-afternoon, accompany them and take this opportunity to speak to them in a calm manner and forgive them. Last, write down the date of your argument on the calendar, the next year on that day, make a romantic day of forgiveness for you and for your partner without remembering what both of you argued on that day of the past year. 

Speak to your partner by practicing mindfulness when you communicate and listen to your partner. Use positive affirmations in the morning and at night before going to sleep. Besides practicing positive affirmations, you can listen to guided meditations for forgiveness. Find support through couple's counseling or individual therapy to help you forgive. Here are resources about forgiveness through meditation and mindfulness.

Forgiveness Meditation Jack Kornfield Mindfulness Exercises:

Forgiveness Meditation Jack Kornfield Mindfulness Exercises

Heartfulness-Forgiveness Meditation-Guided Meditation VR:

Heartfulness - Forgiveness Meditation - Guided Meditation VR

Achieve Forgiveness Through Meditation-The Art of Living:

Achieve Forgiveness Through Meditation | The Art of Living

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