In order to release these previous definitions I will be using the tool of self-forgiveness. I understand not everybody is familiar with this writing tool. It is something I found online several years ago and began to use when I saw the common sense within it and as I read others words/writings/experiences with it.The best analogy I can make to help one better understand its effects would be to imagine when you are in an argument with someone. Now recall or bring up within yourself one of the times where you reached a point within yourself where the internal clouds/storm of emotion/anger/friction/conflict parted just enough that a new perspective was able to come through, where you were able torelease your stance,giving yourself some room to consider your partner/the one you are arguing with- to see their side, to realize your reaction, to relax a little within yourself:To forgive them. To hear them forgive you, and to let those walls come down and realize you are on the same side. To share a hug, to bring peace and a return to mutual acceptance and patience with each other, a return to understanding and care, as if you were coming back together to something that is beneficial, nurturing and supportive, after having been out in a storm. This is also what it is like to forgive yourself. You breach a divide that existed within you, and unite yourself into something greater and more powerful than you were when you were divided. You bring a piece of yourself back to yourself, and it feels like coming home. Self-forgiveness is like the living statement that you have decided to assist and support yourself unconditionally, and what inevitably flows from you and your actions is a caring and a consideration for yourself and everything around you as if it were a part of you, and thus self-forgiveness also unites you to others, the people that surround you and the natural world, and you feel a little more at home in this world, and in your own skin.