Little by little, your feelings about that individual bleed into the rest of your life, negatively coloring your view of others and your mindset. It’s like dropping one drop of red ink into a beaker; shortly all of the water is pink.
Did you know?
Months and years of refusing to forgive weakens your immune system, damages your other associations, and depriving you of psychological wellbeing. Picture yourself tied to that individual! Forgiveness isn’t sweeping the situation under the rug, excusing the behaviour away. Forgiveness does not necessarily mean that you keep yourself in a harmful or damaging situation.
Nor does forgiveness require a “loving” feeling. Thoroughly confused? Good. It’s misconceptions like those that have kept many from reclaiming their own lives. So what’s forgiveness? Forgiveness is a choice, a choice. Sometimes reconciliation with the man or woman is possible, and sometimes it’s not. If the other person is prepared, you might be able talk about what happened and make mutual strategies for a better relationship in the future.
Keep in mind
In other scenarios, reconciliation of the connection isn’t feasible. Maybe the other person won’t change, and the fact is, even in the event that you completely let down your guard, the same thing will happen all over again. It might be that the person you will need to forgive isn’t even alive. Sometimes, you only need to do business internally, between you and God. Are you going to feel better immediately? Maybe. But do not expect all of your bad feelings about that individual to vanish.
In actuality, the next time you see them, you might end up in an emotional battle that causes one to question whether you have forgiven. Don’t get drawn into a psychological rehash of all of the things that happened. No, instantly focus on the positive decision you’ve made, and remind yourself that following the conclusion comes the process of psychological healing. Asking for divine help about today surely won’t hurt!
What about forgetting?
If you do not forget, have you forgiven? I disagree with many on this. I feel that as a human with a mind that’s a super-recorder, you’ll have a concrete memory of these events, even once you’ve truly forgiven. So don’t tell yourself that if you still remember what occurred, you shouldn’t have done it correctly. The crux of this”forgetting” thing is this: are you choosing to recall, to rehearse the situation repeatedly, and to watch and await the individual to experience”what goes’round comes’round”? If so, return to your”forgiveness closet”, since you’ve got some more work to do. As you do, you will release yourself.