Olivier Clerc is a translator, an editorial consultant, and the author of six books, including Lessons from a Frog: Seven Life-Enhancing Metaphors and Modern Medicine: The New World Religion.

Foreword by
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D.

Preface

PART 1 Forgiveness Defined Forgiveness -- What Is It Really?
Forgiveness or Healing the Wounds of the Heart

PART 2 The Main Obstacles to Forgiveness and How to Overcome Them

1 Forgiveness Would Exclusively Be a Religious
Practice Practical Method #1--
Forgive for Good: Dr Fred Luskin’s 9 Steps

2 Forgiveness as Outmoded and Outdated

3 Forgiveness Would Mainly Be a Gift to the Other

4 Forgiving Would Amount to Condoning, Accepting, and Excusing

5 Forgiving Would Be Impossible without the Other Offering Their Apologies or Asking for Forgiveness
Practical Method #2--
Colin Tipping’s Radical Forgiveness

6 If We Have Forgiven, We Should Forget

7 Forgiving Would Be Reconciling

8 Mistaking the Person and the Action

9 Seeing Only the Personal Dimension of the Action
Practical Method #3--
Ho‘oponopono: The Hawaiian Approach to Forgiveness

10 Wanting to Understand Immediately What You Are Experiencing

11 Forgiveness and Arrogance

12 Asking for Forgiveness Would Induce Feeling Guilty

13 Asking for Forgiveness Would Be Humiliating
Practical Method #4--
The Gift of Forgiveness: Four Progressive Requests for Forgiveness

14 Forgiveness Would Be a Sign of Weakness
15 Wanting to Do Things Too Quickly

Conclusion
Can Everything Be Forgiven?

Bonus
The Metaphor of the Two Clouds

Recommended Reading The Forgiveness Project
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author