“Forgiveness is not easy, but it is essential—and through it, one gains the opportunity for new insights.”

In Kuala Lumpur, I visited the Pranic Healing Centre near my home several times. Sessions were led by Nona and her partner Eh Sun, and I occasionally received a personal treatment lasting about an hour. Negative energy was magnetized out of the body, and positive energy was then infused. Without any physical touch, Nona’s loving treatment was deeply calming.

I believe it was during my third session, sitting in the chair and nearly asleep, that I heard Nona whisper into my ear: “Michael, can you forgive those who have wronged you?” Her voice was so loving and insistent that any objection felt impossible. I immediately answered affirmatively.

What followed was remarkable: from that moment on, I could no longer hold resentment toward a person I had blamed for over twenty years, despite the harm he had caused me and the group surrounding him. At the same time, I gained a new awareness—that perhaps he, in his own way, had a role to play toward me, just as I had toward him and his group. What had seemed a long, unending struggle of harm and conflict suddenly began to reveal a larger perspective—echoing the Dutch saying: “God sometimes strikes with crooked sticks.”

The relief and gratitude I felt were so profound that I painted this work the very next day and gifted it to the Pranic Healing Centre, with heartfelt thanks to Nona and Eh Sun.