How to Forgive and Release the Past to Set Your Future Free

It’s apparent today there are different groups of people going in different incompatible directions. Some want peace and some want war. Some choose love for strength; others think kindness is weak so they make threats to get ahead. Deep down all people are good and want a good life, but layers of training have created radically contrasting lifestyles. We’ve all had relationships that started out promising and ended up diverging. No matter how much we project our best intentions, we can’t control the fact that people have freewill to make their own choices. Folks who don’t accept other people’s decisions get stuck and suffer in what they think could’ve should’ve would’ve been. Those who can forgive and move on will receive the best of life’s new opportunities.

Join us Sunday July 5, 2026 for a free liberating talk on the art of forgiving and releasing the past that was, so you can finally enjoy the best future that will be. We’ll go beyond the old pep talks of religion and morality that set impossible standards of tolerance and service that imprisoned you. Being a good person doesn’t mean putting up with abuse, nor does it mean fighting endless battles for justice. You need to set boundaries against what’s not good for you. The trick is to how to do it with the love that sets you free rather than the violence that keeps you stuck in the past.

Many can’t forgive because they feel too hurt, angry and vengeful over what happened to them. Revenge is a strong word that suggests punishing and payback, which the domination culture says will get us results. The domination culture is a system of false negative beliefs that teaches control by threats of violence rather than cooperation by offers of love. The fact is that violence never really works, because it only causes more hurt and doesn’t win hearts. You know this as a spiritual person who wants to make the world a better place.

You don’t want to be a cruel person who wants revenge, but then you may find yourself judging others to treat you better. And guess what, judgments cause hurt. Negative judgments are condemnations that punish people by invalidating them. Shame is the most horrible crippling feeling when a person thinks they should not exist, and that’s what your judgments are teaching them. Of course, you’re just thinking, “They shouldn’t have done what they did; I was disappointed, abandoned, unappreciated, or betrayed.” Your feelings are perfectly understandable and valid, but what you do with your feelings makes all the difference. Focusing on making people wrong and how they must change is not only completely ineffective, it is unforgiving and vengeful. And that keeps you stuck in the past.

The solution you need is spiritual, in a living loving Universe that protects you to be yourself. Forgiveness isn’t condoning someone’s destructive behavior, but it also isn’t saying they must change to be worth existing. True forgiveness is the self-caring you give yourself to set yourself free, so you can move on to a new better life. The only person you will ever be able to actually change is yourself, and that’s all the change you’ll ever need. The Source and your soul have solutions for you to receive everything you need to live happily ever after. Health, wealth, friends, opportunities, love, creativity, adventure and more are waiting for you, as much as you can forgive to let go of what happened in the past.

For this meetup, think about where in your life you feel stuck in past patterns. Does it seem like your past is controlling your future? Do you feel like a victim of your own subconscious habits? We’ll see how those limiting beliefs aren’t really true. It’s actually easy to forgive and change for permanent healing when you understand how you and the Universe really work together. The future is what creates the present, and that’s why negative imagination and judgments are so destructive. The past isn’t meant to be limiting at all, but rather supportive information to empower you to change any time that you want. You have four minds that design a great life top down for you, from the spiritual superconscious, mental unconscious, emotional subconscious, and physical conscious. Humans are meant to enjoy what’s already planned at higher levels. The negativity of the domination culture feeds on insecure people who try to control life and can’t. You’ll learn how to forgive any interaction by reclaiming your own energy, and we’ll conclude with a guided meditation to heal the wounded self who just needs to come home.

Welcome! Our Inner Selves Mastery spiritual support group is free online every Sunday 11am-130pm EDT, with the last 30 minutes for a guided meditation. If you can’t stay you can get the recording. You can signup here for this meeting and visit www.signupISM.com for all events, newsletter, videos, and more.

Best wishes,
Carl Johann Schroeder
Inner Selves Mastery
spiritual teaching and coaching
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