Mental distortion :: (psychological disorientation)

 Forgiveness it's the crucial word. If you are brought up on ideals but know you have human failings and unacceptable qualities, you have to forgive yourself for being human, and it is through this forgiveness that you forgive others.

But that is so difficult to do in our society,
because we are not being loved for ourselves so we hide our worst faults.

Even in analysis, we will hide our worst faults, and if we begin to sense that we are being loved, even with all our ugliness and darkness, there is an immense fear and resistance, because we feel vulnerable, and suddenly the word trust starts to come in.

And we are terrified of trust; we are terrified to make ourselves vulnerable. So the move into forgiveness is an immense leap. People will move to a point of trust, and then the unconscious reaction is one of terror, because they are wide open, they can be struck down. So then you have to wait. And there's another opening to more love, and then again the terror comes in.

And it's the body that's terrified. Many people begin to realize at.that point that their body was rejected. If they engage in depth massage or inner work in the body, the agony of the body begins to come up....

- MARION WOODMAN

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My rebuttal:

Marco Almeida

Forgiveness is ONE personal identity (obligation and awareness) acting in good faith. Nothing else. The sacrifice of energy. It is something unused and impartial in a psychological nature.

My own undying quality (test) of self-validation, that even if contradicted or ignored - I investigate the causes within me, that which even if it hurts not only myself, becomes tangible to transcend in an honest manner. It is quite literally an empowering level of measuring the forgiver's strength.

The main factor is in the giving not the receiving.