We all go through unpleasant phase in our lives. There might be people who might have deeply hurt you or disappointed you. Your heart becomes filled with negative emotions like anger and resentment which in turn tends to eat you up from within, harming you physically as well as mentally. In such a situation you have a tendency to develop a vindictive attitude towards those who have hurt you and vengeance is what you seek for.

But is this the way you can achieve peace of mind or heal yourselves? If you continuously harbor grudge against others, you will never be able to grow up as a better human being. The secret to attaining contentment, poise, and better health is to let go everything that has hurt you and forgive those who have disappointed you.

When you are hurt too deeply, it becomes very difficult for you to forgive or release all the negative emotions. However, you need to understand that though, forgiving might seem to be difficult yet by letting go off these negative emotions, you will pave way to better emotional health. In other words, forgiveness plays a major role in healing your wounds.

Forgiveness doesn’t happen overnight and like many other things in life, it takes practice, and patience to learn the art of forgiveness. The great thing about forgiveness is that you may do it for the other person but in the long run you are the one who benefits the most from it.

When you choose not to forgive, you are harming yourself while preventing yourself from growing emotionally as well as spiritually.

Forgiveness has long laid the foundation for spiritual well-being.

Healthy forgiveness integrates self respect and wanting better for your own self. This will help you to rise above the desire for vengeance, and instead invite universal love to flow through you so that you can pardon the person who hurt you, unleash the old pain and move ahead to achieve better things in your life.

It is important to cultivate empathy in order to practice forgiveness, which allows you to develop understanding as well as sympathetic attitude towards the offender. This serves as a great motivation for genuine forgiveness. Evidences suggests that forgiveness has played a key role in lowering depression, anxiety and other physical conditions, such as high blood pressure and heart rate.

Forgiveness is a virtue that is given by God to his children to extend quickly and limitlessly. Though it may require commitment, patience and focus yet by giving it freely, you exchange anger, hatred and resentment for joy, peace, and freedom. 

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