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Summary: The act of forgiving releases personal stress and baggage that can have negative effects in one's life. Learn more about reasons to forgive with tips from a professional psychologist in this free video about self-improvement tips.
Dr. Paul Vehorn has a Ph.D and did graduate work in behavior psychology. He has also been a nationwide talk show host on the Sun Radio Network. Dr. Vehorn wrote "Dynamic Dating" and...read more
"Giving is great, forgiving is divine. How to forgive? This is Dr. Paul, may your fantasies of today be your realities of tomorrow is one that I say at the ends of all my shows. Well, there's a fantasy that some of you may have that you haven't quite achieved and we're going to talk about that. I'm the author of "Boomer Girls: A Boomer Woman's Guide to Men and Dating." The fantasy that you may not have achieved is the one of forgiving. You can forgive and maintain your dignity. Just because you've forgiven someone for what they did, does not mean that you have to again associate with them. Sometimes, we have to forgive ourselves, and we have to associate with ourselves, and the way to forgive ourselves is simply to put it behind us. Don't carry the baggage. And the same is true with the other. When you have you been slighted, you have been really, really possibly persecuted in a situation, then you forgive, you don't have to forget, but it relieves you of the burden you are carrying. So it's really about you, because if you constantly relive, that pain, the person that you're living the pain from wins, and you want to win. For example, someone who has wronged you has died, and that keeps working on you over and over and over. So they reach out from the grave, and they're affecting your life. Get rid of the baggage, toss it over your shoulder, right into the sea, over the bridge. That baggage is gone. By doing that, you've forgiven that person, not forgetting it, but you've forgiven that person for your own reasons, because you don't want to carry the burden. This is Dr. Paul, and may your fantasies of today be your realities of tomorrow."
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