forgiveness

Healthy Tips: Revenge is a Dish Best Left Off the Menu

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Plotting revenge? That’s cute. But also exhausting, illegal in most states, and a digestive disaster.

Strategy:

Flip the Script: When the urge to “get even” strikes, write what you gained from the situation instead of focusing on what you lost.

Health Benefit:

Forgiving others—even when they don’t deserve it—boosts immune function and reduces chronic stress, keeping your body from staying in fight-or-flight mode.

Pep Talk:

Let karma be the chef. You’ve got better things to cook up—like inner peace and a spicy sweet potato bowl.

Healthy Tip: Grudge Holding Is Not a Cardio Workout (But It Will Exhaust You Anyway)

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Beginning with this post I will provide five posts that are arranged around the theme of letting go of past grievances and anger. We’ll focus on the positive and how letting go of past grievances and anger will improve your health.

Still holding onto that ancient grudge like it’s a winning lottery ticket? Discover why letting it go is the real power move—for your peace and your blood pressure.. You’re not getting six-pack abs by replaying that argument from 2003. All you’re doing is mentally bench pressing emotional baggage—and let’s be honest, you’re not even getting paid for it.

Strategy:

Use the “3-Day Rule”: If you’re still mad after 3 days, write it down, reflect, then commit to releasing it. Holding onto it longer just drains your emotional energy.

Health Benefit:

Letting go of long-term resentment lowers cortisol levels, which reduces blood pressure, inflammation, and the risk of heart disease.

Pep Talk:

You weren’t born to be a grudge gardener. Rip out the roots, and make room for something beautiful to grow.

Moments of Lucidity

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In moments of lucidity everything seems simple to me. The complicated unravels, the mysterious is no longer a mystery, and for that spit second everything makes sense. It’s a space I want to remain in, but I’ve learned it won’t last. I’m fortunate to have my brief glimpse before returning to jousting with windmills like Don Quixote. The brief glimpses of the simplicity of life helps me to focus on what’s really important:

Love is the answer.

We all need forgiveness, no one is perfect.

Kindness builds bridges faster than a construction crew.

Loving Oneself Is the First Step

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“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” ~ Dalai Lama

Embracing Imperfection: The Key to Happier Relationships

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The most unhappy people I know are perfectionists. From my observations they have several things in common; they don’t smile, they make the lives of those closest to them miserable, and they are unhappy. When we accept our imperfections and faults we can let the imperfections and missteps of others slide. When we let things slide suddenly relationships improve. Suddenly the sun’s a bit brighter and the sky a bit bluer. We are all in a state of becoming. We are imperfect. It’s why forgiveness is a big deal. Forgiving ourselves and forgiving others because we are imperfect heals wounds that otherwise would continue to fester. Welcome to our imperfect world let’s smile, sing, and dance our way through our imperfections.

From Anger to Healing: A Journey Through Grief and Forgiveness

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This is Just to Say ~ A Poem by William Carlos Williams

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This is Just to Say

William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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Forgiveness Lane ~ A Poem by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi

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Forgiveness Lane

Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi

Forgiveness Lane is old as youth,
You cannot miss your way;
’T is hedged with flowering thorn forsooth
Where white doves fearless stray.

You must walk gently with your Love,        
Frail blossoms dread your feet—
And bloomy branches close above
Make heaven near and sweet.

Some lovers fear the stile of pride
And turn away in pain—        
But more have kissed where white doves hide
And blessed Forgiveness Lane!

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A Characteristic of an Emotionally Healthy Person

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Searching for Treasure

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Searching for treasure must be built into the human DNA. We’re always seeking something better, something beyond us. We invent things to help us search like genies in a bottle. Seers on mountain tops. We stop in antique stores looking for a hidden treasure. We go to auctions hoping for the same. All the while we avoid the one search that will take us to our most important treasure, taking the journey within to discover who really are. Helen Keller said, “What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.” Dare to journey within. You’ll find some dark places, heal and forgive them. What will surprise you will be the overwhelming amount of light you find.

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