Season "For Giving" or Season of "Forgiving"???

By: Dr. David Jernigan


{A reposted Oldie, but Goodie!}


This is an extra and special additional post from
Dr. David Jernigan and The Hansa Center wishing everyone Happy Holidays!

(Although a bit long, very much worth reading to the very end.)

The night is excessively cold. The thermometer hanging on the garage is registering a balmy 9° F. A blistering wind is whipping around the house, seeking cracks through which to create a draft in my house. The wind chill must be below zero. It’s a great night for some of my new Detox Cocoa as I finish my work day by answering my emails.

I have the television on in order for my brain to gradually step its way down from its busy pace of the day to the much slower pace of the silent emails. I am watching one of my favorite Travel Channel programs, “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” and suffering through the myriad of commercials.

The show is refreshing to me for what is likely the very reason some other people may not like it at all. In a world of homogenously, disingenuously “nice” cookie cutter television personalities, Anthony Bourdain is raw and real.

He exemplifies and personifies the ideal of “high personal integrity.”

If he wants a cigarette, he smokes one. He says whatever he wants, but respects people for the most part, and is true to himself.

If he eats something in a foreign country that he doesn’t like, he tells you so, not like some of the other travel/food celebrities who predictably always say “I just love this! It’s so great! You just must experience how awesome the food is here!”

One comes away with the idea that the restaurant paid them to endorse their eatery. Just once, I’d love to hear these people say, “You know, this just isn’t that good.”

But I digress.

The point I wanted to make was that while waiting for the commercials to end and checking my emails, the onslaught of Christmas-related commercials droned on and on, until a phrase caught my ear, “It’s the season for giving…”

Something about the way it was said though made me think they said, “It’s the season for forgiving…”

I glanced up over the top of my laptop at the TV and realized my mistake – just another ad designed to sell you something that would likely be broken by next Christmas.

I sat in deep thought about the idea of a Season of Forgiving and wondered how many people thought, as I did for most of my life, that forgiving was that thing your Mother always had you do when you did something to one of your siblings, and always was marked by “Say it like you mean it!”

Saying we are sorry is fine, as is saying it like we mean it; however, I have found that it is just the thinnest crust of what forgiveness really entails.

One of our highest human achievements in life is attained by reaching what is known as “Perfect Love.”

My book entitled, Everyday Miracles by God’s Design discusses in great detail how science has discovered that we are indeed beings of light, and it relates enlightened ways to attain our highest level of development as humans. In my book, I tell of how important the heart is in creating health and realizing an abundant and happy life.

The heart is now known, with each beat, to imprint the command information to the trillions of DNA in your body through “laser-like emissions of light!” What we think of as matter, such as tissue, bone, organs, glands are really just a condensation of light energy. We are more fiber-optic than we are electrical and chemical!

Have you ever experienced a situation where you were in such a good mood that nothing anybody said could upset you?

This is what we should feel like all the time.

In our highest spiritual maturity, we should be the embodiment and personification of Divine Love! In this existence, we love without respect to whether or not anyone deserves our love. You are allowing unrestricted light and love to shine outward to the entire world and into every situation.

With this attitude you never know who you are healing of some major problem when you are just walking down the street, holding yourself in perfect love! The down side of this revelation is that you also never know who you are contributing to negatively when you are walking down the street, if you are holding yourself in any negative emotion and unforgiveness! And yes, science has already verified this concept.

Our own negative emotions emit light frequencies that can aggravate the body of another person. “The body is wonderfully and mysteriously made.”

The U.S. Army even did a study where they can take a sample of your live DNA and watch it under electron microscope in another room.

For research purposes they will call into your room and tell you to think of something bad, negative, or get angry. Instantly, as they watch, the double helix of your DNA, like a ladder that has been twisted, will twist even tighter, getting shorter, and various codons will start turning off, unique to the type of negative emotion you are feeling!

The researchers will then call you and have you think of being joyful, thankful, and loving. Instantly your DNA strand unwinds to its optimum twist and all of the codons turn on perfectly!

By the way, the room in which they observed your strands of DNA in this study was 200 miles away from your body!

Your genetic blueprint, the illnesses you are experiencing, the messed up hormones and neurotransmitters, are all following the instructions of your thoughts and emotions as laser-like light beams of commands are sent to the DNA.

What does all this have to do with forgiveness, you might ask?

When we have unforgiveness (resentment, irritability or by whatever other name) it demonstrates that we are withholding love. This is like taking poison, hoping someone else will suffer! Your DNA is creating the most optimum YOU only when you are operating from perfect love.

One of the greatest lessonsI have learned in my life is that no one can make me anything!

No one can make me mad.

No one can make me have self-esteem.

No one can bum me out.

I am responsible for my own reactions, and I choose to stay in a position of complete peace and love, and complete and utter trust in God's plan, in spite of any life circumstance!

A close second to this is another favorite realization along my journey toward greater spiritual maturity:

“That which I greatly don’t want (fear) I draw to me faster, and that which I greatly desire (love) I also draw to me faster.”

So in other words, in the context of this topic, that which I have great unforgiveness about draws more reasons and more power to that which I will not forgive…and the disturbances in the expression of my DNA create more illness!

“To err is human, to forgive Divine,” the saying goes. It is always the Season of Forgiving.

When we forgive, it means we no longer hold back our love, but we release the person/s from any debt.

As we send out only light and love to all the world, our light will reflect off of everyone and everything and come back at you as the same, light and love, warmth and favor!

A song comes to mind, “Tis the season to be forgiving falalalalalalalala, don we now our light apparel falalalalalalala!”

This Christmas, do yourself a huge favor, save yourself from certain poisoning, and forgive all who have hurt you or let you down. In all your loving, be certain to love yourself completely in the same way!

With all my light and love,
David A. Jernigan Share