When you're hurt by someone you love and trust, you might become angry, sad or confused. Love is a necessary precursor to being able to forgive.
Connecting to Love: Day 8 ~ Forgiving
We often think of forgiveness as an act of mercy or compassion extended to someone who wronged us, whether you are trying to forgive others, forgive yourself.
Forgiving yourself is a crucial element of your welfare. Forgiving others, however, is just as important to getting along in both personal relationships and society at large.
According Steve Maraboli “Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”
Though forgiveness can help repair a damaged relationship, it doesn’t obligate you to reconcile with the person who harmed you, or release them from legal accountability.
People who feel forgiving don't only feel more positive toward someone who hurt them. They are also more likely to want to volunteer and donate money to charity, and they feel more connected to other people in general.
Forgiving involves letting go of deeply held negative feelings.
We are the ones who receive the most benefit from forgiveness, not the other person.
Forgiveness brings the forgiver peace of mind and frees him or her from corrosive anger.
Forgiving others releases us from anger and allows us to receive the healing we need, spares us from the consequences of living out of an unforgiving heart, and makes us happier.
Forgiveness improves our health - when we dwell on grudges, our blood pressure and heart rate spike; when we forgive, our stress levels drop, and people who are more forgiving are protected from the negative health effects of stress.
DAYLY QUOTE:
Connecting to Love: Day 8 ~ Forgiving
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Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.We often think of forgiveness as an act of mercy or compassion extended to someone who wronged us, whether you are trying to forgive others, forgive yourself.
Forgiving yourself is a crucial element of your welfare. Forgiving others, however, is just as important to getting along in both personal relationships and society at large.
According Steve Maraboli “Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”
Though forgiveness can help repair a damaged relationship, it doesn’t obligate you to reconcile with the person who harmed you, or release them from legal accountability.
People who feel forgiving don't only feel more positive toward someone who hurt them. They are also more likely to want to volunteer and donate money to charity, and they feel more connected to other people in general.
Forgiving involves letting go of deeply held negative feelings.
We are the ones who receive the most benefit from forgiveness, not the other person.
Forgiveness brings the forgiver peace of mind and frees him or her from corrosive anger.
Forgiving others releases us from anger and allows us to receive the healing we need, spares us from the consequences of living out of an unforgiving heart, and makes us happier.
Forgiveness improves our health - when we dwell on grudges, our blood pressure and heart rate spike; when we forgive, our stress levels drop, and people who are more forgiving are protected from the negative health effects of stress.
DAYLY QUOTE:
“Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us... Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, they will hold the keys to our happiness, they will be our jailor.”
~ Desmond & Mpho Tutu, The Book of Forgiving
ACTION:
If you are willing to forgive but you have difficulty to forgive yourself and forgive others, from today repeat the following, every time you want by:
«Today I have gained a better understanding of forgiving others.
I fully forgive from my heart.
I forgive them and I forgive me for hurting others out of my own hurt and to heal my relationships with others.
All forgiveness and healing is possible.»
If you are willing to forgive but you have difficulty to forgive yourself and forgive others, from today repeat the following, every time you want by:
«Today I have gained a better understanding of forgiving others.
I fully forgive from my heart.
I forgive them and I forgive me for hurting others out of my own hurt and to heal my relationships with others.
All forgiveness and healing is possible.»
Write in a daily journal who you need forgive and why. also write who you need his forgiveness and why.
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