Four
Powerful Spiritual Tools for Resolving Conflict
by
Vicky Thompson
When someone hurts you, love is the last thing you feel. But love
is the most important part of a spiritual practice that uses four
powerful spiritual tools to heal conflict with others: love, compassion,
forgiveness and personal responsibility.
As a spiritual state of being, love opens your heart to new possibilities
and helps you to accept choices made by others. Building on the foundation
of love, you can forgive others by accessing your compassion or empathy
for others, allowing you to take personal responsibility for your
own actions.
To begin healing conflict, start with love. Love shifts your viewpoint
from pain to a place of acceptance. By accepting that you are having
a difficult experience, you can choose how to view the issue: as an
opportunity to choose reconnection with your inner wisdom or as a
mortal blow to life. Say the following affirmation out loud until
you feel love providing power to resolve the issue.
Love Affirmation
In this moment, I choose to love you, right where you are.
I accept all of you, the dark and the light.
In honoring you, I know the power of love.
Love accepts all.
I am love.
Compassion
is the ability to feel empathy for others and act toward them in a
nonjudgmental way. On this journey of life, sometimes people fall
down and may not be able to find their way. In having compassion,
or a belief in the highest and best for others, you have faith in
their greater potential. Say the following compassion affirmation
out loud until you feel the commonality between you and the other
person.
Compassion
Affirmation
God created me through the power of love.
God created you so that we could share this experience of life together.
Through you, I am able to know myself deeper in all ways.
Through me, you are able to learn and remember your heart of God.
Together, we journey through life as equal partners,
always holding the highest and best for each other.
Through each other's eyes, we see the great potential of God living
within.
Forgiveness
allows you to take control of your response in a conflict situation.
You can choose to forgive the other person, allowing you both the
grace to continue without pain on your journey. After using the following
forgiveness meditation, you may feel emotions about other issues with
this person or pain over similar conflicts with others. Continue meditating,
focusing on these issues.
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