Luminita D. Savic's 'Forgiving Life'

Forgiveness has a different context depending on where the person is from or what he believes. Religion places a great emphasis on the view of forgiveness.

Forgiveness have important medicinal effect on health. Researchers and study have shown that people who forgive have less chances of health issues like heart attack and brain tumor. “People who hold tolerance views of human nature and don’t seem to nurse grieveness unduly tend to have blood pressures in the normal range” (Callwood, J. 2007, p. 153). Writer in the above findings tells her readers the medicinal effect of tolerance. She beautifully explains the positive effect of forgiveness in contrast with unforgiveness where her contrasting finding says “Unforgiving people, some studies show, are three times more likely to have heart diseases as people who don’t carry grudges”(Callwood, J. 2007, p.153). Writer here is addressed to people who cannot or do not forgive and tells them how harmful holding grudges are to their health. She beautifully explains the finding by telling first the negative effect of not forgiving in comparison to

Life has ups and downs, it may stab you in the back, but it’s a choice to forgive and forget about it. Forgiveness is something that helps people move on. For every person, the word forgiveness has a different meaning, for me it means leaving behind actions from my past. Personally, I like to think that forgiveness is a way to start over whether in a friendship or in life. If the opportunity presented itself to me to explain the word, forgiveness, to someone I would simply reply that it is the idea of setting yourself free from all the hate one has been holding.

In a biblical manner, forgiveness roughly translates to “letting go”. Instead of holding a grudge to the offender, we should give them pardon. In Luke 11:4, we are given the passage of: “And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.” Jesus used an example of this when comparing a person seeking repayment from a debt found in Matthew 18:23-35.

Forgiveness is very important throughout life. If people don't forgive, they are going to be stuck in the past always remembering about the mistake that person did. Forgiving someone can make yourself feel better because you know you forgave that person and there's no negativity between you and that person.

Forgiveness is a voluntary process and only time can heal all wounds. Scratch that- time won’t heal all wounds and forgiving someone is totally and completely up to you. When stating that forgiveness is “voluntary,” it simply means that one is forgiving someone at their own free will. The question is “why? why must we forgive someone after doing something so awful?” The answer might be complex. In the book “Picking Cotton” by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton and Erin Torneo, and in the book “Beauty for Ashes” written by Joyce Meyer, forgiveness is portrayed as a big role. Each person goes through their own struggles and eventually has to forgive someone or be forgiven by someone.

Forgiving others frees us from resentment. Forgiving ourselves is part of positive change. To cease to feel angry or bitter towards a person or about an offence(List of Virtues)”. Slaves may have taken a very long time to forgive the people who had mistreated them, and many may have went back to treat their no longer masters the same way they had been treated. People may explain the horros they had been through during that time, but that may be a way for them to forgive the way they had been treated. Not for the person who had been heartless at the moment or still be heartless but for theirselves, so they no longer feel traumatized,out in the world feel as if someone will run up behind them and still them once again from their family. Forgiveness is being able to no longer feel angry to the same thing they thought they would be mad at forever. It is being able to see something again and not feel hatred towards

Even though many people think that forgiving won’t get anyone anywhere, or help anyone, they are wrong. Forgiveness is key to life, without forgiveness people would never be able to have any relations with anyone, mistakes are a part of life and mistakes happen. The way people take the mistake show people what kind of person they will become, and forgiving someone can change a person’s life.

Forgiveness is an intrapersonal process to reduce thoughts of anger, revenge, or hurtful feelings towards an offending person. Recent intervention researchers concur that forgiveness is not just an excuse for the wrongdoing; conversely, the absence of the negative vengeful feelings define forgiveness (Wade, Hoyt, Kidwell, & Worthington, 2014). Forgiveness is described as a willing decision to forgive; a process to bring about cognitive change, eliminate negative feelings, and increase positive thoughts and behaviors toward the offender (Blocher & Wade, 2010). People living with negative pent up emotions of anger and resentment potentially endanger their psychological and physical health, and well-being. Sufferers can learn how to reduce and reverse negative thoughts, and emotions; into positive thoughts of compassion, love, and achievement of forgiveness. Clients learning to cognitively change their negativity into forgiveness, and through intervention; can attribute their well-being to better health outcome predictors for early prevention.

It takes a strong person to say sorry, but it takes a stronger person to forgive. Throughout our life there will be many people who will hurt us, whether or not to forgive is our choice. When someone hurts us, we get upset and/or angry with that person because of their wrong doing. By forgiving such person you are letting go of grudges, and by letting go of grudges you become free. In some cases, granting forgiveness is the best way to handle a situation where someone hurt us.

You have heard the term forgive and forget but what is forgiveness? The book definition of forgiveness is the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven. When you forgive someone you stop being so vexed or resentful towards anyone for any error they have done to you. Forgiving is the first step to finding peace in a unwholesome situation that has occurred in your life. For example, a drunk driver strikes your car and you are paralyzed from your waist down. You have two alternatives, you can despise and feel anger towards the person and be miserable, letting it destroy you on the inside or you can forgive them, feel tranquility and work on rebuilding yourself. If you continue to blame them for their actions and dislike them, you will

Forgiveness starts and ends with you because it has nothing to do with the other person nor being right or wrong. It's about having the chance to be happy and letting the thing that hold you back go and being more free from the problem that you were facing with. An example of this would be the book Tell me three things because it talks about how jessie learns to forgive her dad for moving to another state away for her best friend. And remarrying another woman when it's only been a year after her mom's death. She could of have hold in the anger and not forgive her dad because forgiveness is a decision that you personally have to making in rather to move on with life and find happiness.

According to, (Bonar,C.A.,1989), “Psychological definition of forgiveness tends to focus on forgiveness as an action or an attitude on the part of the forgiver benefits of forgiving and the role of forgiveness in psychotherapy. “ Bonar, C. A. (1989). Personality theories and asking forgiveness. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 8 (1), 45-51.

What is forgiveness? According to Hoskins (n.d), the dictionary defines forgive as to pardon or forgive an enemy, to cease or forgive an offense. When you forgive the ones who have hurt you, you are setting yourself free. Free from the possibilities that you can do harm on yourself because like what the dictionary says, to forgive is to cease an offense. So if you forgive other who have hurt you, it means that you set yourself free from having physical ailments or maybe diseases. Because if not, the anger inside you will eat you that will cause such

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