You Should Be Forgiving, for Your Own Health
Absolving even people who've done terrible things to you is healthy.
By Ruben Castaneda, Staff Writer |Sept. 21, 2017, at 9:00 a.m.
Can you forgive someone who cut you off in traffic and angrily flipped you off? A spouse or lover who cheated on you? How about someone who killed a close family member?
Some transgressions, of course, are easier to forgive than others. But regardless of the issue, holding on to feelings of resentment, anger and maybe even a thirst for vengeance is bad for your mental health, research shows. For example, a 2016 study of 332 adults between the ages of 16 and 79 showed that increases in forgiveness were associated with reductions in perceived stress and improved mental health over the five-week study period. Findings were published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
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