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How does unforgiveness affect your health? It’s been said;                            

 

According to Harvard Medical School, not forgiving someone can impact both physical and mental
health. It can feel as if the person has gone through a major traumatic event. Forgiveness, on the other
hand, can lead to lowered blood pressure and a healthier heart.

Studies have shown forgiveness encourages decreased anxiety and depression and increases the ability
to improve your relationships. Forgiveness and healing have both an emotional and physical bond. They are
connected deep within you and it’s impossible to have one without the other.

a person who was unable to forgive themselves, they had an increase in depressive symptoms. They also had more anxiety
and a weaker immune system. When you forgive yourself, you can begin to heal in all areas of your life: mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

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How Your Mind and Body Benefit From Forgiveness

Learning to forgive has benefits that are far greater than we may think. Grudges are like toxins within
our emotions. When you learn to eliminate these toxins, your body begins to heal and return to
homeostasis (its natural state of balance).

Forgiving and healing are gifts we give to ourselves in the forms of internal peace and stability. From the
moment you begin the process of forgiving, your body starts healing. Forgiveness triggers healing
automatically.

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Forgiveness can also lead to higher self-esteem. It can allow you to have a greater spiritual connection. Being able to forgive helps you practice compassion.

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Forgiveness is freeing. Yes, it frees the one who hurt you. But most importantly, forgiveness gives you
freedom from feeling negative emotion and being triggered, and from being a victim. It gives you the courage to move forward with your life, without a heavy weight on your shoulders.

Forgiveness Improves Your Mental Health

According to the American Psychological Association, when you forgive, your mental health improves.
Studies have shown that as forgiveness rises, stress levels go down. Forgiveness is also linked to fewer
symptoms of anxiety and depression.

It’s true: When you forgive, you release tension from your body. Tension that can cause physical ailments.
Forgiveness leads to lowered blood pressure and less stress. Because there is a connection between
blood pressure, stress and heart disease, you are reducing your risk for health problems down the road by practicing forgiveness right now.

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Mental health problems can often lead to physical aches and pains. Depression, for example, is an illness
that leads to negative physical responses. Not being able to forgive creates symptoms of depression and
anxiety and therefore, leading to physical concerns.

When we refuse to forgive, our brains remain in a state of alertness that can lead to negative health
effects. You tend to stay focused on the pain you feel, creating stress and setting you up for further pain

                                       

THE LEARNERS EDGE:

 

stay; you can stay where you are.

Grow; you can receive the benefits from 4giving, because you broke the chains that had you bound.     

Move forward; you will be able to have peace and spiritual healing, and feeling free.

 

Chronic anger puts you into a fight-or-flight mode, which results in numerous changes in heart rate, blood pressure and immune response. Those changes, then, increase the risk of depression, heart disease and diabetes, among other conditions. Forgiveness, however, calms stress levels, leading to improved health.

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Forgiveness: Your Health Depends on It - Johns Hopkins Medicine

4GIVENESS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

 

A PLACE WHERE YOU GET DO-OVERS; A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN TRY AGAIN.   (EVERYONE IS NOT REPLACEABLE. PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHO YOU HURT).

                                                                                                                                                                                      

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