Quick Update: Nearly 2.8 Million Page Views for the year. We exceeded the projections made below.
Nearly 2.8M pageviews from over 2M website visitors. We got nearly 250k downloads of the free ebooks. This is a lot more than any previous year, so the information on how to forgive is getting out more each year.
Big THANK YOU to everyone who is helping and supporting us.
Pageviews 2,784,541
User visits 2,280,153
Ebook downloads. 249,055
Blessings, William Martin, Founder.
Blessings to everyone. Keep safe and spread love and forgiveness whenever and wherever you can.
Whether in families, organisations, or in any sphere where people interact, resentments based on misunderstandings, mistaken assumuptions, or normal human error, can build up and cause people to react to each other in unhealthy ways – causing even more resentments and misunderstandings. This can happen between husbands and wives, children and parents, colleagues, and so on. It can even happen in the wider spheres of life all they way up to geopolitical level.
As a small Scottish charity our focus is simply in helping as many people as we can learn how to forgive. We are a non-religious, secular, organsation and we produce our own material and simply give it away to whoever wants it. We do this by promoting a free ebook, The Four Steps to Forgiveness (click here to download), which is available in multiple languages.. Typically our website has around 1.2Million visitors and around 100,000 downloads of The Four Steps to Forgiveness. However, sometimes the traffic surges (as mentioned above) and goes well beyond this.
I hope that our forigveness material will help people to get past their difference and to be able to create more harmony in their relationships. Many countries are seeing rising rates of divorce, increasing problems with stress and depression and also increasing rates of suicide – even though we are accumulating more and more of the types of material things which are supposed to make our lives better and easier. This is because key things are missing from many people lives – one of those key things which is missing is forgiveness. Many people do not have a simple and practical method of forgiving themselves and forgiving other people. Within themselves they get stuck in the past and have trouble moving on. They may have the latest mobile phone, but their attidude to other people is outdated and functions very poorly if at all. Forgiveness is a “social technology” which gives people the power to let go of the past and – on a social level – to move on and create a better future for themselves and for those around them.
What you do to defend youreslf is often experienced by others as an attack on them.
When people become afraid they tend react to ‘defend’ themselves, but their ‘defence’ is experienced as an ‘attack’ by the other side – who then may feel they have to ‘defend’ themselves too. An understanding of the principles of forgiveness can be a very effective antidote to the help in reducing the chances of such escalation.
Many people want to be better at forgiving, but the don’t know how. The Global Forgiveness Initiative (GFI) “how” – spreading a practical forgiveness method The Four Steps to Forgiveness which anybody can use not matter their religion or philosophy – or even if they have no religion or particular philosophy. Our goal it to spread forgiveness in as many languages as we can and to make forgiveness technique as freely and widely available as we can.
Our official purpose is: The advancement of conflict resolution or reconciliation by promoting the benefits and the practice of forgiveness in multiple languages.
Global Forgiveness Initiative, Scottish Charity Number: SC045990.
Address: William Martin, Global Forgiveness Initiative, 7 Bay View, Findhorn, Forres, UK. IV36 3YX
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