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- Forgiveness is a choice.
- Forgiveness is taking responsibility for our emotional wellbeing.
- Forgiveness is about our healing and not about those who have hurt us.
- Forgiveness stops the blaming of others for the emotions that we are experiencing.
- Forgiveness is standing in our truth and claiming our power.
- Forgiveness develops empathetic abilities.
- Forgiveness is expands perspective.
- Forgiveness is a learnable skill-set.
- Forgiveness alleviates the sense of victimization.
- Forgiveness improves our mental and physical health. Forgiving:
- Increases hopefulness,
- Reduces depression,
- Decreases anger,
- Reduces stress, including symptoms such as headaches, upset stomach and GI track illness, dizziness.
- Reduces muscle tension
- Increases emotional self-confidence,
- improves cardiovascular functioning.
- Forgiveness of one person improves our other relationships.
- Forgiveness is an initiation rite which is a key that opens the door to new stages of development.
- Forgiveness facilitates constructive reallocation of time and energy from fixation on the past to fully enjoying the present moment.
- Forgiveness can be invited and facilitated, however authentic, complete forgiveness emerges organically and is not an intellectual process.
- Forgiveness is not forgetting or repressing the fact that something painful happened.
- Forgiveness is not denying or minimizing our hurt.
- Forgiveness is not excusing poor behavior.
- Forgiveness is not focused on changing another person’s ideas, emotions, or behavior.
- Forgiveness does not have to be an otherworldly or religious experience.
- Forgiveness does not eliminate the option for pursuing compensatory action for ourselves or the community when appropriate.
