Leonard Laskow - For Giving Love: Awakening Your Essential Nature Through Love and Forgiveness

FOR GIVING
LOVE

Awakening Your Essential Nature
Through Love and Forgiveness

LEONARD LASKOW, M.D.

WITH

STEVE BHAERMAN

All Rights Leonard Laskow, M.D.

To Sama, my dear wife.
Without her this book would not have been written.

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Table of Contents

Preface

When I set out to write For Giving Love , I realized that most of the great works of art are created not with the audience in mind but as a creative expression of the Divine an expression that simply must be manifested. You didnt arrive here to live your life for others, or to express what others think, value and want. Youre living your life because life lives itself through you. Yes, you can choose to take this life force and devote it to the well-being of others, but the life force didnt come here for that; it came here to just express itself. In other words, life is to be lived and has an inherent impulse to become conscious of itself. And Essence is simply a sense of being. To be aware of being, and then to share it as part of the complexity called awakening is what For Giving Love is really about.

Leonard Laskow, M.D. December 2015

Introduction:

On Love and Forgiveness

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anas Nin
It is not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. Mother Teresa
Love is the unconditional acceptance of what is. Leonard Laskow

If youre holding this book in your hands or reading it on your screen you already have some curiosity about forgiveness. Perhaps youve had a profound experience of forgiveness yourself or seen how it has transformed the life of another. Or maybe youre skeptical about forgiveness because you imagine that its a way of pretending to make something all right when it isnt or condoning something that cannot be condoned.

It is my hope that this book will transform your experience of forgiveness and give you lifelong tools for generating genuine peace and healing in your life and in the world. You may be surprised to discover that your assumptions about what forgiveness is have been limited by misinformation or missing information. You may be relieved to find that forgiving has nothing to do with forgetting, denying, or condoning horrors. It is not about anyone else out there.

It is about how YOU are holding the circumstance. When you release identification with or an attachment to the past then

Forgiving is for giving love
and for giving freedom.

Forgiving is a way of clearing the spiritual palate for the next taste of life and for truly loving yourself more deeply or perhaps for the first time. Forgiving frees you from the past and frees you to be who you really are. With the energy of the past cleared, we are free from the emotional charge of old stories, conditions, and patterns and free to be fully present.

This book will offer you a clear and practical pathway for forgiving. It will offer inspiring stories of those who have transformed their lives through the Holoenergetic Forgiveness Process. Youll learn how forgiving changes you on a cellular level the biology of forgiveness and how it can change the field around you so that other people you havent spoken with in years suddenly have a change of heart.

Youll learn about what I call the Game of Awakening, an operational cosmology that will give you otherworldly resources to deal with this-worldly challenges. Ive found that this operational cosmology helps seminar participants negotiate the unmanifest that is beyond the understanding of the thinking mind.

Youll also learn what forgiveness is and is not, and perhaps gain some insight into why forgiveness may have been challenging for you until now and why it can lead to the next level of breakthrough in your life. You will learn how to practice presence so you can look at any situation through the eyes of your soul. Of course you will learn the Holoenergetic Forgiveness Process and be inspired by stories of how forgiveness heals. And you will get a glimpse of what is beyond forgiveness a world where presence is being alive and aware here and now.

Whatever condition or situation you find most challenging in life whether that be health, relationships, money, career, or overall happiness forgiveness has the power to release the blocks that have been keeping you from unconditionally loving yourself exactly as you are.

Forgiveness has the power to release the blocks that have been keeping you from unconditionally loving yourself exactly as you are.

At this point you might also be wondering how someone trained as a scientist, and as a medical doctor, could get so involved with healing through love and forgiveness.

So a bit of background.

What brought me to the realizations I share with you in these pages began in the 1970s with my discovery of the healing effects of love, which was documented in my first book, Healing with Love: A Breakthrough Mind/Body Medical Program for Healing Yourself and Others. At the time of its publication, Deepak Chopra said my work revealed that Love is truth and beyond sentiment the ultimate healer. Since then, my research, healing work, further discovery, and teaching have continued. I present it here in a rich, practical way that can be applied to every area of our lives, and most certainly for our own inner development and for a deepening realization of our essential wholeness.

Healing with Love

My immersion in forgiveness and healing with love began at a retreat in the mid-1970s. It was about 2:00 a.m. and I was in deep meditation, alone in my dark room. Suddenly it felt like someone had turned on the lights. I opened my eyes and the room was still dark. I closed my eyes, and again I experienced this inner luminosity. I then felt a presence and heard a voice inside my head. I say it was a voice, but it was indescribable, not audible in the usual sense. This presence said, Your work is to heal with love. The hair stood up on the back of my neck and tears started to roll down my cheeks. I knew what was said was true but I didnt know what it meant.

Then I silently said, Oh, so Im worthy!

In response, this voice, this presence, said, You are no more or less worthy than anyone else. Your work is to heal with love.

In other words, when the conditioned, egoic sense of the self that we sometimes call the little self asked, Am I really good enough? this presence would have nothing to do with the judgment or comparison that worthy implied. I took this information in, although at that stage in my life I really had no idea what to do with it. At the time, I was in a busy medical practice in San Francisco and teaching at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.