Forgiveness as Frequency Liberation

Bashar explains forgiveness not as a moral obligation or an act of condoning harm, but as the act of releasing the energetic cord that connects you to a painful experience, explaining precisely how this release works and why it serves the one who forgives far more than the one being forgiven.

I want to speak about forgiveness today, because this is one of the most frequently misunderstood concepts in your spiritual and ethical traditions. Many of you approach forgiveness as a moral obligation — something you must do because it is the right thing to do, or because your tradition requires it. And many of you struggle with this framing, because the person or situation you are asked to forgive may have caused real harm, and forgiveness can seem to minimize or excuse that harm.

I want to offer you a completely different understanding of what forgiveness actually is, one that I think will make it not only more accessible but genuinely desirable.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with the person being forgiven. It has nothing to do with condoning or excusing the behavior that harmed you. Forgiveness is entirely and completely about you — specifically, about your freedom. Let me explain.

When someone harms you, and you hold onto that harm — when you continue to carry the anger, the resentment, the pain, the judgment — you create an energetic cord between yourself and that experience. This cord is a living, dynamic connection that is continuously drawing energy from your present to maintain the connection to the past event. It keeps a portion of your consciousness — your creative power, your emotional energy, your attention — permanently allocated to an event that is no longer occurring.

More than this: the cord also keeps you in a specific frequency — the frequency of pain, of violation, of injustice. And as long as you maintain that frequency, you will continue to attract experiences of the same frequency into your present life. The person who harmed you may be entirely absent from your current life, but the frequency of the harm continues to influence your reality through the cord you are maintaining.

Forgiveness is the act of cutting that cord. It is not saying 'what happened was acceptable.' It is saying: 'I choose to no longer allocate my energy to maintaining a connection to this experience. I choose to withdraw my attention from the past and bring it fully into the present, where I have creative power.' It is, ultimately, an act of self-liberation — a reclamation of the energy that was locked in the resentment and making it available again for the creation of what you actually desire.

You do not forgive for the other person. You forgive for yourself. And when you understand this — when you see forgiveness as a tool for your own liberation rather than as a gift to the person who harmed you — it becomes not only accessible but genuinely appealing.