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Forgiveness, Formation, and the Freedom to Re-Form

  • Murray Russell
  • Jun 5
  • 3 min read


Over the past few days, I’ve been walking through some deeper emotional territory—letting go of old ideas, judgments, and emotional entanglements, especially in a couple of my personal relationships. As I spend time with these individuals, I’m learning to accept them as they are—not as I once needed or expected them to be. In doing so, I’ve begun to see something profound:


Forgiveness is not just a spiritual ideal—it’s an energetic liberation.


It’s not merely a concept found in scripture or philosophy. Forgiveness, when practiced, frees us at a physiological, emotional, and spiritual level. It unbinds the stuck energy we carry—resentment, regret, resistance—and returns us to presence.


We often talk about forgiveness as an act we extend to others. But it’s just as much an act of inner healing. It’s the decision to stop looping stories that no longer serve and to let go of the need to prove or punish. In doing so, we clear space—not just mentally, but energetically.





Reality Is Responding



As I reflect on this inner process, I’m struck by what science—particularly quantum physics—is now revealing: that our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence the very fabric of reality.


The old Newtonian worldview treated the universe as a machine. But in the quantum realm, everything is energy, probability, and possibility—until we observe it. The act of attention, of intention, of feeling with belief, collapses the wave of potential into the particle of form.


Our minds sketch the blueprint.

Our hearts infuse it with energy.

Together, we create.


In essence, our lived experience is not just something happening to us—it’s something we’re participating in. We’re not victims of circumstance. We are co-creators of form.





The Power of Re-Forming



This understanding shifts everything in the healing journey. Because if we can form reality through repeated attention and belief, we can also un-form and re-form the patterns that are no longer aligned.


The things we’ve built—stories, relationships, identities, habits—can become dense and heavy over time. Some are beautiful. Some were necessary at one point but are now outdated structures keeping us stuck. And here’s the freedom:


If we built them, we can unbuild them.

If they formed, they can be re-formed.


This is healing. This is grace. It’s not just about creating something new—it’s about releasing the old, reclaiming the energy trapped in those forms, and allowing it to return to the formless, to the field of potential once again.


It’s not destruction. It’s liberation. It’s transformation.





This Is the Real Work of Healing



Healing isn’t only about nutrition, sleep, movement, or modalities (though they matter greatly). It’s also about perception. It’s about energetic architecture. The deeper work is allowing ourselves to stop reinforcing old emotional structures and to consciously choose new ones.


And that begins with forgiveness—of others, of ourselves, of the ways things have gone.

Not because it was “okay,” but because holding on is costing us too much life.





A Final Reflection



If you’re reading this and something in you feels heavy, tight, or tired—pause for a moment. Take a deep breath. Ask yourself:


  • What belief or story have I been carrying that’s ready to be softened?

  • What energetic structure no longer serves me?

  • Where can I choose to re-form, to reclaim, to forgive?



Because you are not static.

You are not stuck.

You are not the hardened clay of the past.


You are a living wave—and you can rise again

 
 
 

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