“Learning to forgive is one of the great paths to inner peace” Anonymous.
It has been said that harboring resentment and holding back forgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping the otherperson dies. Physics dictates that what goes on in the mind will have an effect on the physical body. It is also interesting to note that forgiveness is something nearly all Americans want — 94% surveyed in a nationwide Gallup poll indicated it was important to forgive — but only 48% said they usually tried to forgive others. Besides making you miserable and zapping your enjoyment from life, un-forgiveness comes with a laundry list of negative health effects. Psychologist Loren Toussaint of Luther University in Iowa was among the first to demonstrate a long-term link between people’s health and their ability to forgive. In what many call the new science of forgiveness, numbers of overwhelming case studies have shown:
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