FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness as a way to reduce stress?  Really?

Why is forgiveness so important?

Because when we hold grudges, resentment, bitterness or anger against someone or something, all we are doing is adding stress to our body.  We are only harming ourselves.

Probably you know that your grudge doesn't really matter to the person or thing causing our anger: they would consider that our problem, not theirs.

It's commonly recognised now that anger or resentment held in our bodies for long enough will cause harm to our physiology: it can make us sick. What's the point of that? The cause of our anger is totally unaffected.

And sometimes, we have to learn to forgive: OURSELVES. Yes, ourselves: for the silly or harmful things we have done; for the mistakes we've made; the things we did not do; the things we did; all of the things we regret in our life.

This is the way to inner peace: forgiveness cancels the poison of anger, resentment and bitterness we hold.

This is not easy, but an important step in reducing the stress in our lives.

I hope that you start to think about the anger or resentments you hold against someone or something or even yourself.  Is there any latent anger in you? Why do you feel that way?

I hope you do some further reading on letting go of anger and resentments: it's important for our health.

Let me know what you think!