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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: A Passion for Freedom | |
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Unconditional Forgiveness | |
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Reasons to Forgive Everyone and Everything | |
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Tackling the Problems about Forgiveness | |
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Why We Resist Forgiving | |
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Anyone Can Learn How to Forgive | |
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Forgiveness from the Mundane to the Catastrophic | |
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The Spectrum of Pain and Healing | |
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Pain Is Unavoidable; Suffering Is Optional | |
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Eight Steps to Freedom | |
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Prepare for a Change in Your Life | |
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State Your Will to Make a Change | |
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Express Your Feelings Exactly as They Are inside You | |
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Release Expectations from Your Mind, One by One | |
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Restore Your Boundaries | |
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Open up to the Universe to Get Your Needs Met in a Different Way | |
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Receive Spirit's Healing Energy into Your Personality | |
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Send Unconditional Love to the Other Person and Release Him or Her | |
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See the Good in the Person or Situation | |
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Integrate Your Change and Start Living in a New Way | |
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Self-Forgiveness: The Most Difficult Task of All Made Simple | |
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How Is Self-Forgiveness Accomplished? | |
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"Falling Short" and Human Perfectionism | |
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Tackling the Big Ones | |
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Forgiving God | |
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Forgiving Abuse | |
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Forgiving Evil | |
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In Harmony with the Universe | |
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The Stream of Life | |
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The Ripple Effect of Unconditional Forgiveness | |
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A Child Comes Running Home | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Midwest Institute for Forgiveness Training Programs | |
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Notes on Psychosynthesis and Transpersonal Psychology | |
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Further Reading Resources on Psychosynthesis | |
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Further Reading Resources on the Soul | |
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Suggestions for Psychotherapists: Using the Eight Steps to Freedom with Your Clients | |
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The Eight Steps to Freedom and the Twelve-Step Recovery Program: Partners in Transforming Dysfunction to Serenity | |
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The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous | |
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TheAA Steps that Are Related to Forgiveness | |
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Prevent Relapse by Using the Eight Steps to Freedom | |
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Current Research on Forgiveness and Health | |
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Notes on the Subtle Energy System | |
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Our Sources of Vital Energy | |
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The Healthy Circulation of Energy in the Chakra System | |
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The Healthy Energy Boundary, or Aura, in Our Environment and with People | |
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Further Reading | |
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Eight Steps to Freedom: Quick Reference | |
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The Soul-Illumined Personality: Daily Centering Exercise | |