Forgiveness by Iyanla Vanzant Read Free Book Online

everything.
Under Nose:
This forgiveness is very powerful.
Chin:
I am tapping into the power of forgiveness right now.
Collarbone:
I am much more open and much better now.
Underarm:
I am open to forgiving myself for creating or choosing experiences that require self-forgiveness.
Liver:
I have learned my lessons and release the need to repeat them.
Wrists:
I allow my mind and heart to experience total and complete forgiveness of myself for everything.
Crown of Head:
I know that everything has happened for my highest and greatest good. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
    Have a few sips of water. Take a deep breath in through your nose. Release the breath slowly and softly through your mouth, making the sound “Ahhhhh” as you do so.
    R ECHECK THE I NTENSITY L EVEL
    Recheck your intensity level on holding unforgiveness about yourself. If the level is at 8 or higher, repeat the entire 3-Round Tapping Sequence outlined in the Bonus Tapping Script (or your self-created script.)
    If the level is less than 8, tap on one of the following Modified Set-Up Statements, then perform the 10-point Tapping Sequence on the 12 Forgiveness Statements from your daily journal work.
    MODIFIED SET-UP STATEMENT
    Use the Modified Set-Up Statement below (or use one that you’ve written yourself) and repeat it three times while tapping continuously on the Karate Chop point.
     
Even though I still have some stubborn judgments about myself and some resistance to letting them go, I am willing to let them go, and I love and accept myself totally and unconditionally.
    After you complete the Tapping Sequence on your Forgiveness Statements, recheck your intensity level on holding unforgiveness about yourself.
    Depending on your level, continue to repeat the sequence described above until you are at a 0 level of intensity.

– Day 2 –
    I F ORGIVE M Y B ODY
    My thoughts are images that I have made.
    Things that I see
are made of the thoughts I think.
    My thoughts create images.
The images I see
reflect the thoughts I am thinking.
I am responsible for what I see.
I can train my mind to be a deliberate
creator of what I see.
    —P RAYER FOR A C OURSE IN M IRACLES W ORKBOOK L ESSON 15?

 
    – Forgiveness Story by Iyanla Vanzant –
    I grew up believing that I was fat and ugly and that I would always be fat and ugly. I was fat because I believed my grandmother when she told me that I ate too much. I was ugly because I believed my brother when he said I was not in line when God was giving out good looks. By the time I became interested in classical ballet, my distorted body image was signed, sealed, and delivered into the recesses of my mind. In dance class, where all the other dancers had small breasts and hips, I felt out of place. Many of the other prepubescent girls had enough hair to make a lovely ballerina bun on the nape of their necks. I was not so blessed or lucky. Still, I showed up for dance class each day in junior high and high school, believing that every comment the teacher made about points, pirouettes, and grand jetés was directed toward me because I was fat, ugly, and my hair was short.
    I was 16 years old when I first saw a performance by Michael Babatunde Olatunji, the master drummer from Nigeria. His dancers looked like me. They were round and limber, and boy could they move. For the first time in my life I understood that I did not need to be thin to be beautiful or to dance. I also recognized that ballet was not the only form of dance available to me, and that I did not need a bun on the nape of my neck to fit into the world of dance. It was my first step toward accepting that God created poodles and S/He also created Saint Bernards. Not everyone needs to be a size 2, and at a size 10, I was by no means fat. The problem was, I had seen myself as fat and ugly for so long, it was difficult for me to imagine myself as anything else. Thank God for the 1960s, when short hair among women of color became fashionable, and round bodies could be