When you release your hold on the past, it releases its hold on you. When you bring yourself into the present, you return fully into this moment. When you free someone else whom you see as having hurt you, you free yourself. This may be a process made up of many moments of release, but to the extent you do this, you free yourself. How long does it take to feel this freedom? One moment, one choice. That past is a graveyard, do not live there. Live now, live in Love. Do not let what anyone did to you in the past define your being or life now. Release as many times as it takes to release the last time. Forgiving another applies to forgiving yourself, you have the same power and need to forgive yourself as you do to forgive others.

*AREM .