Unconditional Forgiveness A Simple and Proven Method to Forgive Everyone and Everything

by Grieco, Mary Hayes

• ISBN13: 9781582702995
• ISBN10: 1582702993
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-20
• Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words

Summary

Mary Hayes Grieco's eight-step guide shows readers how to experience swift, permanent, and complete well-being through total forgiveness.

Author Biography

Mary Hayes Grieco has taught public forgiveness workshops for over twenty years, as well as working at the Hazelden Treatment Center and at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN. Grieco and her colleagues have imparted their potent healing method to counseling professionals in the US, Ireland, Germany, and Kuwait, including therapists who work with American veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. She looks forward to bringing this universal method of emotional healing to new friends in other culture and countries. Visit maryhayesgrieco.com to learn more about upcoming events.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: A Passion for Freedom	p. xv
Unconditional Forgiveness
Reasons to Forgive Everyone and Everything	p. 4
Tackling the Problems about Forgiveness	p. 22
Why We Resist Forgiving	p. 24
Anyone Can Learn How to Forgive	p. 30
Forgiveness from the Mundane to the Catastrophic	p. 35
The Spectrum of Pain and Healing	p. 38
Pain Is Unavoidable; Suffering Is Optional	p. 42
Eight Steps to Freedom	p. 59
Prepare for a Change in Your Life	p. 61
State Your Will to Make a Change	p. 64
Express Your Feelings Exactly as They Are inside You	p. 67
Release Expectations from Your Mind, One by One	p. 73
Restore Your Boundaries	p. 83
Open up to the Universe to Get Your Needs Met in a Different Way	p. 90
Receive Spirit's Healing Energy into Your Personality	p. 94
Send Unconditional Love to the Other Person and Release Him or Her	p. 99
See the Good in the Person or Situation	p. 103
Integrate Your Change and Start Living in a New Way	p. 108
Self-Forgiveness: The Most Difficult Task of All Made Simple	p. 113
How Is Self-Forgiveness Accomplished?	p. 114
"Falling Short" and Human Perfectionism	p. 123
Tackling the Big Ones	p. 127
Forgiving God	p. 128
Forgiving Abuse	p. 136
Forgiving Evil	p. 155
In Harmony with the Universe	p. 157
The Stream of Life	p. 158
The Ripple Effect of Unconditional Forgiveness	p. 159
A Child Comes Running Home	p. 161
Conclusion	p. 165
The Midwest Institute for Forgiveness Training Programs	p. 167
Notes on Psychosynthesis and Transpersonal Psychology	p. 169
Further Reading Resources on Psychosynthesis	p. 171
Further Reading Resources on the Soul	p. 172
Suggestions for Psychotherapists: Using the Eight Steps to Freedom with Your Clients	p. 173
The Eight Steps to Freedom and the Twelve-Step Recovery Program: Partners in Transforming Dysfunction to Serenity	p. 177
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous	p. 178
TheAA Steps that Are Related to Forgiveness	p. 179
Prevent Relapse by Using the Eight Steps to Freedom	p. 181
Current Research on Forgiveness and Health	p. 183
Notes on the Subtle Energy System	p. 185
Our Sources of Vital Energy	p. 186
The Healthy Circulation of Energy in the Chakra System	p. 187
The Healthy Energy Boundary, or Aura, in Our Environment and with People	p. 192
Further Reading	p. 193
Eight Steps to Freedom: Quick Reference	p. 195
The Soul-Illumined Personality: Daily Centering Exercise	p. 207
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