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relationships, we need to seek it and approach it with awareness that it leeds to the richness of all relationships.
3. Reduces anger, stress, feelings of hurt, emotional experience of stress and depression.
4. Willingness to forgive is associated with a lower blood pressure, a lower heart rate and a reduced workload for the heart muscle.
5. Forgiveness is powerful therapeutic intervention and as an intellectual exercise in which the patient makes a decision to forgive.
6. The psychological response that is forgiveness includes the presence of positve affect, judgment and behaviour.
7. People who are inclined to forgive theier transgressors tend to be more aggreable, more emotionally stable, and more spiritually or religioulsy inclined. 8. When people forgive, the probability restoring benevolent and harmonious interpersonal relations with their transgressors is increased.
9. People who were more forgiving of people who had recently transgressed against them had higher levels of satisfaction with life.
10. Many religious and value systems assume that forgiveness is a source of human strength, yielding interpersonal, mental or physical benefits.
11. Forgiveness invlolves re-establishment of positive motivations toward transgressors. When someone hurts you and refuses to apologize, and even if this means that the relationship cannot be repaired, you can still offer forgiveness for the sake of your own mental health.
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