You surely experience negative emotions from time to time, but when you learn about their impact on our health, you will definitely try to find a way to combat them.<\/p>\n
Apparently, whenever you feel resentful, regretful, or replay some bad memories in the head, the body suffers equally to your mind. Therefore, focusing on such negative emotions causes devastating long-term disease.<\/p>\n
The solution? — Forgiveness.<\/p>\n
Forgiveness is not a sign of submission, weakness, or a flaw. Actually, it is a trait of strong personalities.<\/p>\n
The Greater Good Science Center claims\u201cpsychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Yet, forgiveness is not an event but a process, and this explains the difference between decisional forgiveness and\u00a0emotional\u00a0forgiveness.<\/p>\n This distinction has been depicted as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDecisional forgiveness is a behavioral intention to resist an unforgiving stance and to respond differently toward a transgressor. Emotional forgiveness is the replacement of negative unforgiving emotions with positive other-oriented emotions. Emotional forgiveness involves psychophysiological changes, and it has more direct health and well-being consequences.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Journal of Behavioral Medicine published a study which confirmed that a forgiving personality was linked to better subjective well-being and psychological well-being.<\/p>\n Other studies have found a link between forgiveness and better sleep quality, reduced fatigue, improved physical symptoms, fewer medications used, and fewer somatic complaints.<\/p>\n Forgiveness also supports heart health. As found in a study published in the\u00a0American Journal of Cardiology, forgiveness has a more cardioprotective profile, while anger and other negative emotions\u00a0 had cardiotoxic effects. The conclusion of the researchers was as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cThese findings suggest that interventions aimed at decreasing anger while increasing forgiveness may be clinically relevant.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Researchers from Hope College\u2019s Psychology Department tried to analyze the effects of negative emotions, so they conducted a research which involved 35 female and 36 male participants.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You surely experience negative emotions from time to time, but when you learn about their impact on our health, you will definitely try to find a way to combat them. Apparently, whenever you feel resentful, regretful, or replay some bad memories in the head, the body suffers equally to your mind. Therefore, focusing on such… <\/p>\n