Remit and Release

So having a public holiday on a Friday, messes a bit with my early Friday morning schedule of sitting down and writing my blog. Doing a half marathon instead, messes a bit with my entire body...  Now it's time to catch-up.
Maybe that should be the sub-title for my message today, it's never too late to "catch-up"! Whatever has happened, has happened, you cannot change that. What you can change is what you decide to do today. I am probably one of the most stubborn people around and I know I can really dig my heels in and resist doing the right thing all out of stubbornness or in another word, pride. I can latch onto an incident and rewind and replay it over and over in my mind, reinforcing the emotions each time. This is the problem with the "quiet-types", while the mouth is still, the brain is in hyper-drive. (Although not always in a negative way.)
What should I be doing?   -  Remit and Release. Today.
Fix what can be fixed, apologise again if you have faulted, forgive if you were on the receiving end. And then, release the incident. Release doesn't mean forget; it just means not holding it so close to your heart that you are not able to feel anything else. Releasing "it" also releases yourself to move on. It takes your focus off of "it" and frees you to see everything else you have been missing out on.
What is "it" that has you captured? Is it a hurt you can't seem to move past? An action you can't seem to forgive? A word passed in a moment of emotion that now haunts you? Is it regret for something you should have done and didn't step out and do-it?
There are so many "its", that could possibly imprison our hearts and minds that we have to be on the alert and rectify them as soon as we can before we build a fortress around ourselves.
Start today with the first thing that has your focus while reading this. See if there is any action you can take to rectify the situation and do it, right now. Apologise or forgive those involved. It may be a case of forgiving yourself or forgiving people who unknowingly have hurt you. Forgive them anyway. Start with a head-based forgiveness and allow the thoughts of forgiveness to percolate into your heart. Once this is done, open those clenched fists holding onto the "it" and allow it to dissolve. You can feel the constriction of the pain and hurt being eased off and you realise just how trapped you were. Release and be free once more.