The Forgiveness Handbook: A Simple Guide to Freedom of the Mind and Heart - Paperback

by Clifford B. Edwards (Author)

You Can Experience Freedom of the Mind and Heart. Consider the following questions: - Do you ever make negative judgments about yourself or others? - Are you holding onto any regret, remorse, sorrow, guilt or shame about the past? - Do you carry any anger, resentment, blame or indignation toward yourself or anyone else? If the answer is yes to any of these - even in the smallest degree - then you have something to forgive. Forgiveness grants you freedom from the cruel patterns of judgmental, blaming thoughts. It liberates you from the oppressive burdens of unresolved emotions and the chafing restrictions of limiting beliefs from the past. Forgiveness gives you the freedom to more fully be and become a unique, confident and unbridled expression of yourself, so that you can create the levels of success and joy you most want in your life. This book is for you if you have suffered hurtful, painful, wounding or upsetting events and experiences of any sort in your life. It is for you if you have any questions about what forgiveness is and why you should expend the mental, emotional or spiritual energy to forgive anything or anyone. At the end of every chapter of this book are optional journaling exercises to complete. The exercises are designed to be done in sequence and to build on one another. If you do each of the exercises as you move through the book, you'll end up having completed your own personal process of forgiveness around one or more people or incidents from your life. This book is designed to be a handbook, a place where you can come for ideas, reminders and perspectives on forgiving and the benefits of doing so. Its intent is to inspire, motivate, encourage and cajole you into adopting and keeping a regular practice of forgiveness so that you can experience the freedom of mind and heart that is your birthright.

Author Biography

Clifford Edwards has been a professional coach, mentor, trainer and consultant in continuous practice for over fifteen years. Along with best-selling author and transformational leader Debbie Ford, Cliff co-founded the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching in 2000. Serving as a staff member, trainer and key architect of the Institute's programs for twelve years, he helped develop numerous innovative, effective coaching models and methodologies, and train over 1000 life coaches worldwide. As an author, Cliff draws on his own life experiences, extensive knowledge and rich personal development background to write with compassion and clarity. He produces books, processes and programs to help people become more self-aware, accepting, loving and confident so that they can have greater success, more freedom, improved communications, better relationships, and a more profound sense of joy and fulfillment in their lives. For his clients and students, Cliff offers life-changing perspectives, supports clear, definitive actions and provides breakthrough results. He is committed to the life-long process of self-discovery and strives to be an example of what's possible through continuing to stretch outside of the comfortable confines of past thoughts and beliefs. Cliff lives in San Diego, California, where he shares a home with his wife Loree and warrior princess cat, Athena.