Sometimes in life we get resentful toward some person or situation. It seems natural to say something like: "Well! No way I will forgive him/her/it for that!"
What this does is turn on a little corner of tension way inside of us, a little bit of anger. After all, it DID hurt at the time when the event happened. Why should we even think about forgiving whatever it was?
These little bits of tension add to any stress that our body is handling: our body has a bit more to cope with, besides keeping us healthy, digesting our food, running all of our operating systems.
These tensions we hold tend to make our muscles tense and this takes energy: the more stressful we become the more energy we may burn up.
We also now accept that inner tensions reduce the effectiveness of our immune system: that's why we seem to pick up colds and stuff when we are under stress all the time.
The answer to holding a grudge is to FORGIVE the person or thing that caused out hurt. This is a low cost, natural way to reduce unnecessary stress in our lives.
We do not forgive for the other person: we forgive for our own inner peace.
Think about this if you find yourself mentally composing nasty letters to someone because you were hurt in some way.
Try it. It will help.
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