565. A Critical, Everyday Element of Your Spiritual Growth - Healing, Karma, and Ascension

Forgiveness

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Hello and welcome to Soul Elevation Guiding Your Ascension to New Heights. I'm your host, Kara Goodwin. I'm so excited to be here with you today on Monday. March 16th, 2026. Today I wanna talk about a fundamental part of your spiritual development. This is something that everybody has the opportunity to practice.

You know, sometimes we talk about. Ascension, quote unquote, ascension. Sometimes we get into quantum mechanics and the nature of reality, and those things can get kind of advanced and it can be easy to make things complicated. And this is very simple. It's very grounded. It's very practical. And it's not always [00:01:00] easy, but what I'm talking about is forgiveness, and it is so, so critical to each and every one of us to practice forgiveness.

Now, of course, we wanna be careful that we don't jump from something happening to us, some trespass happening against us or. Um, some, you know, some way that we're hurted, that we're hurted, that we're hurt or traumatized, and going straight from that event happening to quote unquote forgiveness. Making a leap from the triggering event straight into forgiveness may involve some spiritual bypassing, and you always want to be aware.

Of the fact that you're a human being and you have an [00:02:00] emotional system, and that emotional system is an important part of your makeup. And sometimes on the spiritual path, we can be so focused on spiritual development that we. Try to bypass the emotion and we try to bypass, um, the actual human experience that we're having because we want to have a more elevated spiritual experience.

But you are a complete human that has a physical body. You have an emotional body, you have a mental body. You have a spirit body. All of those things are, are part of your makeup, and we don't want to deny any part of it because in that case, we're actually not being authentic. We're not having a full experience, a [00:03:00] full human experience, and that's what we're here to do as souls who are in a human body.

Having a human experience. So you always want to be, uh, cautious. You know, when we talk about something like forgiveness, you may make the leap then of like, okay, well I can never be bothered if anybody does something I don't like. If anybody does something that hurts me, I have to immediately forgive them and I have to.

Immediately deny that I feel any sort of trigger, that I feel angry, that I feel sad, that I feel betrayed. It's a process. So honor your process. But the flip side of that is being mindful that you're not clutching on to emotions that. You could process [00:04:00] that. You could allow to flow through you and you could feel those emotions and honor that you feel them, honor that you are angry and you have a right to be angry or hurt or disappointed, whatever it might be.

But don't set up camp there. Build a strong foundation there and make a home in that because all of our emotions are transient. If we allow them to be, they're all meant to be felt, to be processed and to be released, and so. I see a lot, and I've experienced myself too, the tendency to clinging onto a story of how something has been [00:05:00] done to us, something that has happened to us, and really clinging to that and let that just be the permanent way that we see the situation.

Know that we were hard done by by somebody else and clutch. That and let that be the continuing story, and that's what we, we want to avoid. So there is a time for the anger and for those harder emotions, but there comes a point where if you keep holding onto that, you're only hurting yourself because you may be dealing with someone.

I mean, nobody is going to be able to change what they've done to you. Even if they wanted to, and they may not want to. You may be dealing with a narcissist that doesn't have the ability or desire to put themselves in your shoes to care how you feel. And so by holding onto that [00:06:00] anger and that resentment, that betrayed feeling, you're not doing anything to them.

They're not feeling it, they're not being affected by it. In fact, it may make them feel in some perverse way, happy. They're causing you continued pain because they like being the, that powerful, they like having the power to control how you feel, and so it's really you that you're hurting. There's an old adage, uh, I'm not sure where it originated, but it's that holding onto anger is like swallowing, poison and expecting another person to die.

So. We hold onto this anger and we think we're punishing somebody else and they may not even care, or maybe they do care, but there's nothing that they can do about it and you're not helping either one of you by holding onto it. So [00:07:00] how do we release this? There are techniques because it, I know it's easy to say, well just forgive.

Maybe it's time you just forgive and it can be hard to do that. So one of my favorite ways to practice forgiveness, and it may not be a one and done, it may be something you have to keep coming back to a little bit to help process and to help kinda change the, the thoughts and behaviors that you have around whatever it is you're wanting to heal.

But ho Pono is an ancient. Hawaiian prayer and it's really powerful and you can use it. You know, we, when we think about forgiveness, we often think about somebody else or some event that something that's happened to us, but a lot of times we need to forgive ourselves. Sometimes we're so full of guilt and shame over things that we have [00:08:00] done or ways that we have.

Maybe we didn't even intentionally do something, but it caused some, we, we were kind of the root of something happening that we were regret, that we are again guilty. We feel guilty. We feel ashamed. I know I spent a lot of my youth in guilt and shame, and it got to be such a habit that I would comb through my mind and my memories seeing what did I forget that I need to feel ashamed of, that I need to feel guilty of.

And I don't even know really where that came from because I, a lot of times that, uh. Is religious conditioning. And I had a little bit of religious exposure, but we were not overly into religion growing up. So I wasn't like constantly at church we'd go in waves, you know, it'd be like we'd, we'd go for a while and then we'd kind of fall away from it.

So I didn't have [00:09:00] like a huge religious conditioning. So again, I'm not really sure where that came from, but I can absolutely relate. To any types of feeling of wondering what else I should feel ashamed of or feel guilty of. It was like a habit that developed within me, and I would find things and almost twist things that weren't really that big of a deal, but I would like just, they'd be on loop and I would make them a big deal in my head and kind of suffer through that.

So. Sometimes it's, it's our ourselves that we need to do this ho pono with. And the prayer of ho pono is very simple. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. And so you can bring into focus, bring into your mind, bring into your memory. Whatever it is, [00:10:00] whoever it is, whatever this triggering event is and feel that that prayer is, is washing through and softening and helping to bring into balance the relationship, the event, helping to, um, disarm it.

And for me, you know, some of you may know that I really. I feel very close to sacred geometry. That's a big way that my consciousness works is through sacred geometry. And so for me, when I'm. Engaging with something that is bothering me or that I've had some sort of triggering event. Um, and this even applies to past lives.

Like I've had this, I think it was a few months ago now, which it seems like just yesterday, but I had this ancient Greek, Greek life that. Appeared to me. And there were these different elements of different [00:11:00] people in my life now and in my past who were related to this ancient Greek life and, um, some wounding that had happened in this life that was related to that life and that I had never resolved because it happened like 25 years ago.

And more than that, and, um. I didn't have the tools, you know, it was just, I just thought I needed to just get over it and get on with things. And because the, all of this came back so fast and I realized, wow, I never resolved that issue with this person that in this life, but was also a carryover from that ancient life.

Um. I was using ho o Pono, Pono, and I used that in meditation where I brought to mind that person. I never interacted with this person in real life. I, I haven't seen this person in decades, and it would not be, [00:12:00] it would be confusing, and I think that I would give the wrong impression if I sought this person out, tracked them down, tried to, you know.

Apologize, or, you know, or forgive them, um, for something so long ago, it. It just wouldn't, it wouldn't make any sense, and it didn't seem necessary. It seemed like it would just create havoc doing that. So I just worked on it with my mind and brought that person up, felt back into what had happened between us, and kind of went back in time to feel myself.

It was like it was me at that age, 25 plus years ago. Back in that scene, back in that time and feeling the wounding and the breakdown and the, you know, [00:13:00] how everything escalated and, uh, and this is over a period of time. This wasn't necessarily just like one event. It was just kind of the breakdown of, uh, a relationship, let's say.

And, um. Feeling back into that and then fe letting, just feeling that. Ho Pono. Pono, I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. And feeling that I was, uh, that that connection between us was being washed, cleansed, cleared, and harmonized. So going back to that sacred geometry, you know, it felt like there was all this spiky.

Energy and it was chaotic and it was just jagged and letting the ho pono pono soften it and make it beautiful and structured and balanced. Um, if you've ever engaged with Dr. [00:14:00] Emoto's work, he's the Japanese scientist who did the water studies, and if you see the difference between. The water that has been kind of blessed purified with high vibrational words versus water that has been, you know, the intentions are evil and they're, you know, the, the words are low vibration.

And there's that with the, the latter, with the things that are, uh, lower, those words that are. Harsh. Um, they're, they're, the water crystals under a microscope are just blobs, and they're discolored, and there's no, there's no symmetry to them. They're just blobs. But the higher end, the blessed words, let's say, and there are a lot of different representations of that, but they're symmetrical, they're crystalline, they're sharp, they're bright.

And so it was seeing the [00:15:00] energy change. Between us back in time and letting that flow through time into other lives and into, you know, just wanting to complete that. You know, it felt that with all of the information, the memories that came flooding back from my past life. That we had had that time together in order to resolve ancient wounds and we didn't.

We, um. We had, you know, a big blow up and it was just, you know, nothing got resolved. It was just like, yeah, get outta here and I hope I don't ever see you again. You know, on both sides we were both like, what are we even doing? Just go away and let's just not talk to each other anymore, and we. Just sort of like never talked [00:16:00] again.

And um, so when I looked at it from that perspective, it was like, wow, we really didn't resolve anything. And we in fact, probably created more. That needs to be healed between us. So it was that opportunity to heal this life, to create completion and let that flow through. And so ho Pono, Pono was a key piece of how I did that.

And you can do that in, um, in things to do with other people. Ways that you need to forgive, ask for forgiveness just within your own prayers and meditation. And for yourself. Like I said, if there are things weighing on you, if there are, if, if you feel heavy, you can use ho ho puno to, um, to heal those wounds within yourself.

Self-inflicted wounds. It's really, [00:17:00] really powerful. There have been amazing studies that have been done. On this ancient prayer, you can Google it and, uh, find some fascinating and, and really provocative insights about just how powerful this prayer is. But that's one way that you can accelerate your forgiveness and try to get through that process.

I, I am using ho pono, pono as this ancient proven prayer. But, you know, prayer in and of itself, that's gonna take you a long way. So, however, it is that you pray that you connect to your higher self, that you connect to pure source light, the, uh, you know, the highest and most benevolent. Energies, however you connect, pray, talk to that intelligence.

Talk to the intelligence of the universe. Ask for assistance to forgive and, and even if [00:18:00] it's that you want forgiveness for from somebody else, pray for that too. Pray for for the healing between you and the healing within you and the healing within the other person. I can't recommend it enough. It's really, really critical for your spiritual development.

So that's everything that I wanted to share. I hope that you'll join me on March 28th. I'll be with Kimberly Meredith. There's gonna be a Galactic five D activation at three o'clock Eastern noon Pacific. You can register for that on kara goodwin.com/kimberly. This is gonna be a really amazing event. Uh, there's gonna be a lot of opportunity to clear out trauma, to clear out any, uh, energies that are holding you back, help you get into abundance, help you to connect with your star seed origins.

Um, a lot of healing. And [00:19:00] we're also gonna hear parts of Kimberly's et contact story she hasn't revealed before, which is a really powerful story. I know the parts that I have heard of it have left me. Uh, wowed and fascinated and with a million questions. And speaking of questions, you will also have the opportunity to ask questions.

We're gonna get through as many, uh, q and a as we can, as much q and a as we can in the time that we're there. So please do join us. There is a $27 donation for that, which I'm really grateful for you to be able to. Contribute to, uh, keeping things going as well. So thank you so much. Thank you for being here.

Bless you, and have a beautiful week. 

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