Swadharma » forgive http://www.swadharma.org The voice of Dharma Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:17:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Forgiving Yourself http://www.swadharma.org/2009/12/07/forgiving-yourself/ http://www.swadharma.org/2009/12/07/forgiving-yourself/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:43:27 +0000 Anish http://www.swadharma.org/?p=2173
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    The next time the person is faced with a situation where another decision has to be made, emotions and fear of making the wrong decision will cloud the mind and judgment, often resulting in making the wrong choice yet again. This ‘habit’ of making the wrong decision will have gained so much momentum that eventually the person will lose complete faith in him or herself.

    Every time the person makes the so-called ‘wrong’ decision and realizes this, he tends to go into a deeper state of self-pity where he loses self-confidence and feels that he is losing control of his actions.

    So what can the person do to stop this pattern of constantly making the wrong decision?

    I could be completely wrong, but I feel like the best way for one to go about this would be to first forgive oneself. No matter how intense the mistakes and despite how much it may hurt others, the only way to be ever forgiven by others and move on is to first forgive yourself. We all make mistakes — the only way we can rise above these mistakes is to acknowledge that we make mistakes and do what we can to learn from it.

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