[Channeled, July 2009]
 This is part of a larger body of work on the flow of energy through human beings via the chakras and how it relates to relationships, healing, and many other concepts in our development and joyfulness. As this material is being channeled now, any questions are especially welcome!
The question asked was: "What is forgiveness — and how does the process work in the context of energy?
Polaris:
As you might suspect, forgiveness, like many other concepts, is simply a particular movement of energy between people. When there is tension between two people, it is most often held within the location of the third chakra. This is the place in the body where you hold grudges.
Choosing to "forgive" someone else on an intellectual basis doesn't necessarily result in any changes to the movement of energy between you. When there is this tension, when grudges are kept, held, and maintained, and when there is residual anger residing within you based on the perceived transgressions of another person, all this energy is stored in the third chakra, the solar plexus.
The act of forgiveness at its simplest level is nothing more than the process of allowing that stored energy to dissipate.
Step 1: Acknowledging What Is
That sounds very simple. But to allow that stored energy to dissipate, first you must acknowledge that it is there. You don't necessarily need to label the emotions that are associated with it, though you feel may feel resentment, anger, betrayal, etc. But on some level you need to access your inner knowledge knowing that there is tension between you and another, that there is stored energy associated with another person and that it is in you and a part of you.
When there is this stored energy, acknowledging is the first step to to allow it to dissipate naturally. When you acknowledge it, however, it changes the flow of energy within you. Consciousness and attention always affect flows of energy. In this case, it causes the energy that is locked in a certain part of your system to start flowing.
Because this previously locked energy is now in a more open state, you will now feel the effects along your entire chakra system of all this stored energy. It will tend to move toward whereever else in your body you may have weaknesses or issues. This is because those areas have their own block of energy flow, and so this energy will build up like a lake before a dam.
This is going to create additional emotion. Wherever this energy accumulates there is already a place within you that's most commonly replete with stored memories and emotions of painful moments. Perhaps memories of violation or anything that you have associated with the chakras that have already been weakened.
 So in this dissipating process, first you acknowledge that there is this stored energy in you. And then, automatically with increased attention, the energy will move to a place where you're already in some ways defenseless, weak, or feeling pain — so if you do not allow the flow of energy through this region without resistance you will likely feel more pain. Your body may be asking for attention (and forgiveness) in this area.
The natural tendency is to create additional layers of defense around that additional pain and then move energy back to the third chakra where it was, because at least then it wasn't bringing anything up for you. This energy can then possibly be used in an energetic eruption of blame directed outwards.
This is a repeating pattern that many have in their exploration of forgiveness. We remind you that blame can be in less overt forms; many of those urging forgiveness to others are intuivitely aware of the benefit of forgiveness, but subtly blaming others that they have not forgiven and are thus not helping them.
Every single act of forgiveness, of a true allowing of the natural flow of energy, creates an immediate help to others in their own process of forgiveness.
Step 2: Using Forgiveness to Expand
When you think about a person, your body will still have a physical reaction if you are holding energy that is yet unacknowledged. When you're ready to move into forgiveness you will no longer feel that physical reaction when you think of that person — yet you still have an awareness that there is energy there in your third chakra associated with that other person. There is now an openness to movement and flow.
In order to truly forgive someone else you have to acknowledge the energy that's present in your third chakra and use that energy to expand you into a larger and more complete version of yourself. You are welcoming and allowing energy that you have previously resisted and denied. You're using that energy — not in an explosive reaction — but in a conscious manner to move into a larger and more complete version of Who You Are.
The "trick", then, as mentioned, is to fully acknowledge all the energy that you're storing there. There may be layers upon layers upon layers. You must be ruthlessly honest with yourself about everything that's there and how you feel, and to allow yourself to be totally okay with the feelings that you are having. That is, not moving into self recrimination, self judgments, etc. and not adding layers of resentment against other that person in the transgressions that you feel they have created. It is the process of simply looking at What Is, uncovering everything that's there and then consciously using that to expand Who You Are.
You can never expunge anything from your being, because you are All That Is. What you can do, however, is to let go.
One way among many that you can do this is by visualization. If you are confident that you've looked at everything, if you no longer feel emotion or a tightness happening in your third chakra when you think of that person, but you still feel emotion and you're mostly okay with that, then you're ready to simply visualize all that energy becoming a part of You. This allows you to step into a larger more complete version of yourself. Energetically, this larger Self includes all that is around you at the etheric level — where the third chakra energy goes.
Here is a short visualization that is one example of using conscious awareness to move that storage of energy to where it better serves you and others:
Imagine this energy as a dark cloud gathered in the area just above and inside your third chakra.
Now imagine that dark cloud becoming less dense, and more like smoke.
The smoke fills an area that surrounds you in all directions, about 18 inches away from your body, visualizing you're encased in this area of increasingly less dense smoke.
You watch it turn from a dark color in third chakra, allowing it to fill the space and become increasingly less and less dense until eventually it becomes entirely clear.
This is a visualization process that can take time, but once you've completed it and you don't see any smoke then the process is complete.
This visualization is not about getting rid of any energy, but is rather about allowing the energy to move to a place that is still part of You that will serve to expand you. There is no energy in you that is not a gift to yourself and to the world. Forgiveness is a process that helps you see this Truth for yourselves.
The "hard work" is everything you've done to get yourself to the point of being able to expand. The hard work is being able to acknowledge everything that you're holding your third chakra and letting go of the impulse to suppress anything that might be hiding in there. That's what can take years in the forgiveness process.
Every act of true forgiveness will make you a more complete and whole person. You're taking energy that was detrimental to you and you are using it to simply become more complete and whole.
You will always be more joyful as a result.
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