Celebrate Valentine's Day by Cleaning Out the Emotional Self

I would like to start with a quote from one of my favorite writers:
Maya Angelou ""It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody"
Everyone wants to know how to clear their chakras, their past lives, old energy the simple one step answer is forgiveness. Even forgiving yourself, those who have passed on, everyone. The fact is that we are not perfect, you will at one point in your life mess up and hurt someone or yourself, by not being the person that you were expected to be. Maybe you stayed in a bad relationship too long, misjudged someone, self sabotaged your goals or any number of missteps that you will replay in your mind until the tape is worn out. Someone in your life may do you a great injustice, hurt you, or hurt someone you love. This is a simple fact of life. Holding on to the anger only hurts you in the long run. It is like taking a slow working poison that hardens the heart, skews your self image, and can ruin future opportunities. 

How to forgive is an entirely different beast. Some points that may help you on the forgiveness journey:

• Forgiveness is not to be mistaken for weakness. In fact it takes a very strong person to forgive. 
• Forgiving someone does not mean that you will allow them to hurt you again. It means that you are no longer going to allow the pain of what happened to continue to hurt you.
• You must recognize that no one, including yourself, is perfect. Messing up is how we learn and grow.
• We did not choose to come into this life to be perfect.
• When you forgive someone, you are setting yourself free from their energy and releasing them from yours. The longer you hold on, the longer they stay in your life.
• You cannot change someone else with your wrath. Being angry and sad does not change who someone else is, just who you are. 
• Peace is when you realize that it is time to look forward and love whom you have become. Everything in your past made you the amazing person you are right now.
• When you forgive yourself for your mistakes, you give yourself permission to grow and to evolve.
• Forgiving yourself does not mean that you do not have to make amends to those you have wronged. Saying your sorry and meaning it, means that you commit yourself to building a better relationship with that person or yourself. 
• Accepting an apology does not mean that you have to keep that person in your life.

This is a very short list that I will expand on in an upcoming book. (Check out http://www.jdayauthor.com to stay up to date on  my newest books!)

Clearing out your heart chakra takes time and patience. You cannot wave a magic wand and expect all of the lifetimes of hurt to vanish.  You can little by little, release the hurt, the wounds and the pain of the past and fill that space up with love. Love yourself and those around you for being the perfectly flawed people that you are meant to be. Love the sunrise of each new day and the opportunity it brings. 

Affirmation:
With gratitude for the lessons learned; I forgive and release all old energy, cords, and anything else that is holding me back from living in a state of peace and Divine love.

My chakras and energy field are perfectly cleared, activated and aligned with the energy of love.