Healthy Forgiveness I recently taught a workshop on how to Forgive completely.  I am constantly reminded that people have lots of hurts and pains that they need to let go of.  So often we just don’t know how.  Learning how to forgive both actions of hurt and in-actions of hurt is critically important for our...

Memory and Baggage I talked about how Forgiveness can bring health, but let’s look at how those significant  bad memories are formed.  The Brain is an amazing computer recording all of our experiences.  It will give greater weight however, to experiences that are very emotional or that are repeated often.  This is...

Forgiveness Brings Healing A 2001 study revealed a correlation between reviewing hurtful memories and measures of the stress response (EMG, heart rate, blood pressure). When subjects were encouraged to think forgiving thoughts, the stress response was diminished. Similar findings were seen in an October 2003 study of 108 college...

Out of Sink Relationally? In Balancing our lives we addressed Health and Finance.  Now let’s look at our < Relationships >.  Like the rest of the areas of our life, if our Relationships are out of Sink the rest of our life is effected.  Relationships get out of Sink for various reasons such as hurts and...

Healing Power of Forgiveness Scientist are seeing that anger and resentment causes many, many medical maladies.  Recently I have been helping several people release these kinds of negative feelings. According to Redbook, There’s one simple secret to achieving happiness, balance, and better health, scientists say: letting go of...