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There's things that will sharpen our spiritual discipline. Now, I know this topic is probably one. It's cliche, something we've heard before, we know it before, but it's actually very important. It's actually something I've been practicing this week, through my writings, through letters, through opening up connections again and having conversations. Sometimes we could feel heavy on the inside, almost as if for no reason. We don't even know why. We just feel heavy. We just feel stagnant. We just feel stuck not realizing that we are still carrying energetic loads from past relationships, friendships, situations, experiences, things we simply haven't let go of yet. Now we all have a destiny. We all have purpose. Our presence has purpose. And there's a direction we're trying to go in. But when we have this heavy load weighing us down, this resistance within us, it takes a whole lot of energy just to take a step forward, doesn't it? Don't some days just feel like it's impossible to get up and just do the simple tasks of the day, pay a phone bill, but for some reason you're resisting. Go finish the groceries. For some reason, it just feels like there's so much more energy or whatever it is. Finish a project. Maybe it's a harder task. Sometimes it's just hard to do the things we have to do. But sometimes we are carrying these energetic loads. Forgiveness. Forgiveness. Now, why is forgiveness important? Do we forgive for others or do we forgive for ourselves? Right. We often hear forgiveness isn't even about the other person, it's for ourselves. And that's true. And I think we say that, though, because sometimes we truly don't want to forgive the other person. So we're saying, hey, you know what? Let me do it for myself. But sometimes, even when somebody else is heavily thinking about us, heavily stuck on us, stuck on a situation, we can feel that as well, you know, to a T. We could feel that as well. And a lot of us have situations we haven't finished. We haven't had that final conversation. We haven't written that letter even just to ourselves. And forgave in spirit, forgave the individual to hurt us, forgave ourselves for how we treated another person. Because sometimes we will ignore things and we'll say, hey, my life is good, everything is great, I'm doing well. But then we hit a roadblock. We get past a roadblock and we say, hey, I'm doing great, everything is well, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't even have to think about that thing. I don't even have to go there. But no matter what, as we go, this resistance will build and build and build and build. And we tap into forgiveness to be able to shape our path that we want to go, shape our direction and heal our experiences. You know, sometimes when we just find the compassion, you may feel like it's courage, but I think it's compassion. When we find the compassion to open up dialogue with somebody and forgive them and say, you know, I know you. I know your heart, regardless of everything that happened. Because everybody's gonna do something wrong at some point in our lives. Everybody's gonna make a mistake. Some people will be malicious as well. But compassion is a spiritual discipline. Having compassion for people that have hurt you, having compassion for your enemies doesn't mean you have to have dinner with them, doesn't mean you have to break bread with them. But harboring hate, being jaded, this doesn't protect you. This cages you. This puts you in a cage. And what happens when you're in a cage? You count. Move past the limits of the cage, and some of us are walking in a cage, hitting the walls. Our hands are trying to get around. We can't move. But forgiveness is key. You know, this week I. I forgave two people. One person and great conversation. And another person I forgave in spirit. But I'm gonna forgive an actual dialogue first. Sometimes we could just forgive in spirit. First we take steps. You know, we can go there in spirit and play out the acts of forgiveness, play out the conversation, how it feels, what's the possible conversation and dialogue they bring back to us. And after that, that will manifest into the actual actions of doing it. But you will find, if you can find it in your heart to have that compassion and forgive yourself, forgive another. Close some experiences, you may feel a lot lighter. You may realize the resistance that was holding you back has now disappeared. I think this is really important when it comes to, you know, developing ourselves, you know, self mastery. I'm big into self mastery. And to me, self mastery is not being in control of yourself completely, but it's addressing all parts of cells and doing what you can do to sharpen and shape those cells, those emotions, those experiences, those characteristics, you know, those limitations within you. That is self mastery. And forgiveness is a potter. Self mastery is a part of spiritual discipline, is a part of healing. And I'm sure there's. I'm sure every single person has somebody they could forgive. And it doesn't even have to be. Pick up the phone and call them. Like I said, you could write a letter and not even send it. But if you have the compassion and courage to send it, send it. You could write an email. You could write a letter to yourself while you forgive yourself for allowing yourself to get into a toxic relationship or for the way you may have treated somebody. Like, have you forgiven yourself? Maybe you're the one that needs forgiveness from yourself because you're carrying these loads, and these loads are weighing you down from what you're destined to do because there's something out there that is waiting for you. A purpose, a mission, a discovery. And it's going to be very hard to get there. Ever feeling heavy on the inside out. So you don't know in hindsight, everything gonna be all right. It's a vive tank. And yeah, I'll see you tomorrow. I'm gonna try to get these podcasts back up early. Early, early, early, early in the mornings. I know I've been posting them around 10:00pm I mean, not 10:00pm 10:00am Pacific Time, but. Yeah, I'll work at getting those back up by 5:00am Eastern Time. Thank you.