@azulaangweek

Aang: Next is the water chakra. This chakra deals with pleasure and is blocked by guilt. Now, look at all the guilt that burdens you. What do you blame yourself for?

Azula inhales and exhales and was focusing again. She has visions of her friends leaving her and her first hallucination in front of a mirror.

Mai: (I love Zuko more than I fear you.)

Jin: (Get away from us you freak!)

Male earth citizen: (I don’t know what your problem is but stay away!)

Azula: (My own mother, though I was a monster)

Back to reality.

Azula: She was right.

Aang: Accept the reality that these things happened...

Azula: How!? I visit the Earth Kingdom, and they all come at me with such contempt, but their people killed my cousin, how am I in the wrong!? I...I once lost control...I hurt someone accidentally, and not only did they fear me...there was...(voice breaking, eyes tearing up) actual hate...

Aang: Azula...

Azula: I was told to feel proud that they fear me because fear would lead to respect, but what they gave me was the opposite of respect, and an opposite and painful feeling was plaguing me constantly. It was worse than when Mai and Ty Lee left me. How can you feel anything other than hatred and disgust, like the others, including my own brother? How is a monster like me supposed to forgive herself? Tell me!

Aang: The same way I had to accept I once burned Katara when I first tried firebending recklessly. The way I once hid the location of Sokka and Katara’s father from them out of fear. The way I killed lots of people while losing control over the avatar state.

Azula was surprised to hear this. Silence came over them.

Azula: How am I supposed to do this? How am I supposed to open this chakra?

Aang: All I can say is, if you want to be a positive influence on the world, you need to forgive yourself. Use the chakra to destroy your guilt.

Azula took a deep breath, she brushed past the guilty images and found the water chakra, the visions vanished. The chakra has opened.

Azula: Wow. That is much better.

Taken from Prayer That Changes Everything by Stormie Omartian. God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️