Forgiveness Can be Healthy

"Sorry is the hardest word to say." Such words of a song that illustrates how difficult it is to give and ask for forgiveness. Not only forgive others, forgive yourself also sometimes not easy. It takes sacrifice and courage.
In fact, continuing pent-up anger will only hurt yourself. Even if the hatred that continues to master, you risk suffering from many diseases. People who can not forgive will generally feel more anxious, fearful, and angry.

Chronic hatred has an effect that can frustrate you. Because of hatred will cause anger, guilt, hostility, and hurt from time to time. Emotions can release the hormone cortisol, which could be bad for your health.

 On the other hand, learn to forgive provide many health benefits, some of which are:
* Enhance the immune response,
* Lowering blood pressure
* Improve sleep
* Reducing anxiety and depression
* Increase self-esteem
* Gives you peace of mind.
The above is only a small benefit is offered to you by forgiving others. So, why do not you try to inculcate the habit from now on to get the health benefits so many.
One or two bad incidents in the past not to affect your life today. Which then let go, because life goes on. Therefore, it is necessary for someone to learn to forgive yourself and others!
How can I forgive?
- Accept the situation. What happened in the past can not be changed anymore, so accept that fact. No one is perfect.
- Remove. Forgiveness does not mean forgetting what happened. This means you no longer create the same emotion ever felt again and again in the mind. Learn from the situation and move.
- Avoid negative words. The words have a hidden strength. "No", and "never", will make you more immersed in the memories of the past. Thus, sentences like "I'll never get to meet him," or "I will not forget what he had done," should be avoided.
- Write down and destroy. Write down all the things you've done and a sense of wrong or what others did to you. Writing can help clear the mind. This exercise will help you find problems unresolved in your mind.
- Stop judging yourself. Allow yourself to make mistakes. Be nice and love yourself. Choosing to forgive yourself and then step forward and release the past. If you feel you've let someone down, it could not hurt you directly to him and apologize. You also have to understand what ever you do may not hurt him that much. Apologizing immediately will also free your mind from the pain.