Healing the Persecutor within

Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 2:25 p.m.

If we focus our healing just on where we have been victimised, we perpetuate an idea that we are a victim. In truth, we are all both the victim and persecutor in different areas of our life. So how does this relate to our healing process?

Naturally we will be drawn to heal the areas we have wounds - and this generally relates to where we have been hurt, traumatised ourselves. What happens when we look at the other areas? This is different to guilt, as guilt is still generally about ourselves. Often the areas where we have been the persecutor are times and experiences that are not in our memories, they are in others. As we don’t know how we affect others, truly.

This isn't to create more guilt! It’s to open to a deeper, truer, richer level of forgiveness and compassion.

And here, as we embrace the Persecutor within….we embrace an aspect of our Power that we may be hiding from…