What happens if you take an object and put a stone upon its back in the water?  It will sink to the bottom, will it not?  Those for whom you hold anger or resentment or judgment are like rocks upon your back, pressing your face into the muck.  The more stones upon your back, the harder it is to breathe.

Sit in the silence.  Bring to mind the images of those for whom you hold judgment, disdain, and anything less than love.  For each person you now send love with the simple words, “I forgive you and myself for being human,” a stone rolls off your back.  Continue this process until you rise, rocket-like to the surface and pop, now free to breathe, into the light.  A visual exercise, yes, but this is how consciousness creates.