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Part 3: Do This to Forgive What You Can't Forget with Sage Robbins & Mary B

22 min episode · 2 min read
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Episode

22 min

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2 min

Topics

Productivity, Relationships, Software Development

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Key Takeaways

  • Mental Architecture Pattern: Resentment builds through ego constructing supporting evidence around one originating thought of suffering, adding past examples and justifications that cloud vision and create confusion, requiring conscious dismantling through self-reflection to restore clarity and connection.
  • Energy Units Framework: Holding unforgiveness requires continuous energy expenditure to maintain the posture of righteousness and resentment, depleting resources that could fuel creative or productive pursuits, making forgiveness a selfish act of reclaiming personal power and mental bandwidth for meaningful activities.
  • Spirit Connection Prayer: Practice the release prayer—"Spirit in me connects to spirit in you, I release you now, I forgive you, I bless you, thank you"—to forgive people from the past or those who have passed away without requiring face-to-face interaction.
  • Forgive Then Decide: Separate forgiveness from relationship decisions by first clearing resentment to reach inner spaciousness and alignment, then consciously choosing whether to stay or leave from clarity rather than blame, anger, or reactive flight response, enabling kinder conscious departures.

What It Covers

Sage Robbins and Mary B explore practical forgiveness practices, examining why people resist forgiving, the energy cost of holding resentment, and specific techniques for releasing grudges toward family members and past relationships.

Key Questions Answered

  • Mental Architecture Pattern: Resentment builds through ego constructing supporting evidence around one originating thought of suffering, adding past examples and justifications that cloud vision and create confusion, requiring conscious dismantling through self-reflection to restore clarity and connection.
  • Energy Units Framework: Holding unforgiveness requires continuous energy expenditure to maintain the posture of righteousness and resentment, depleting resources that could fuel creative or productive pursuits, making forgiveness a selfish act of reclaiming personal power and mental bandwidth for meaningful activities.
  • Spirit Connection Prayer: Practice the release prayer—"Spirit in me connects to spirit in you, I release you now, I forgive you, I bless you, thank you"—to forgive people from the past or those who have passed away without requiring face-to-face interaction.
  • Forgive Then Decide: Separate forgiveness from relationship decisions by first clearing resentment to reach inner spaciousness and alignment, then consciously choosing whether to stay or leave from clarity rather than blame, anger, or reactive flight response, enabling kinder conscious departures.

Notable Moment

Sage shares how after twenty years, she reconnected with her first ex-husband to offer genuine forgiveness and gratitude, acknowledging she lacked the wisdom during their divorce to leave consciously without unnecessary drama and emotionality clouding the separation.

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Episode Transcript

Hi. Thanks for listening to the Tony Robbins podcast. This is just a quick note about this episode in case you'd rather watch and see the video of this conversation. That's found at youtube.com backslash tony robbins live. If you'd like to listen, you're in the right place. So if we look at why we're not forgiving, it's just important why we look at how or why we do forgive. So once again, just connect yourself because, you know, we all have our own path, our own inner wisdom. I think there's some universality, so I'm offering up, some and you can see which ones, land for you. We forgive because you are me. We forgive because it sets us free. I didn't mean for that to rhyme. We forgive when we recognize we are all human and we all miss. We forgive when we accept each other just as we are, But just to be to accept in in that state, place, it's like, okay. Do you know what? Hey. You you give grace. It's it's it's compassionate. We forgive because we are forgiven. We forgive because we choose to wake up from the nightmare. We forgive by recognizing we're all doing the best we can. We forgive because it's a way of coming home. We forgive because, well, I forgive because it feels it's completely selfish. It feels like an internal release. You know, that that constriction, it's like, you know, it's it's it's a carrying of energy. We forgive because it hurts. I forgive because it hurts when I don't. And I the same one, it's I forgive because, I suffer when I don't. Mhmm. And, you know, we were mentioning about innocence earlier, but it's it's, it's really a return and a recognition of our own and others' innocence and the goodness of that's underneath all the condition layers. Yes. We forgive when, there's willingness Mhmm. To self reflect and see ourselves, and to recognize that we are all connected in this human experience. And we have all, if you are alive, we have had grace extended to us. And sometimes in the grit of life, or the pain of life, we forget that. That's a beautiful notion. Those those are all that's a really gorgeous list that you put together. And so you can ask yourself, you know, when do you, not forgive or when do you forgive? Mhmm. Because there is we all have, unconscious competence of why we do what we do. Yep. And what I really recognize when I look back at my lifetimes when I have not forgave, it is usually in the righteousness or the, you know, so and so wronged me and then I am usually, you know, I was trouble talking or talking to somebody or spreading that. Justification, righteousness. You know, it feels yuck. It feels yuck inside to hold that energy. It's exhausting. One thing that I've learned from you and Tony is, you I I …

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