"Good nutrition and regular physical activity are essential to maintain health". You have probably lost count of how many times you have heard or read this statement. Nutritionists, physical education teachers, endocrinologists, dermatologists, in short, almost all professionals who take care of human health often use it.
However, while eating and exercise are really fundamental, they are not the only factors influencing quality of life. Then begins a secondary list of recommendations: Don't smoke, don't drink too much alcohol, keep your stress level under control, and countless more? One of them, however, is not among the most cited, although it is also essential: forgiveness.
Forgiveness cleanses the body
According to Dr. Childre, stress researcher and founder of the Institute of HeartMath, “Forgiving and releasing old hurts from your body is like taking a mental and emotional bath. Notice how people wash their bodies regularly, but keep storing negative toxic waste in their mental and emotional nature for years without cleansing.
The accumulation of stress over time is directly related to the development of a number of diseases. Is it as if the negative emotional charge actually turns into a physical negative charge? and changing that is no easy task. "It's a problem, though, that people have the power to solve by learning to forgive, but it's not something you learn overnight," explains Dr. Childre.
Exercise to learn to forgive
After many years of research and study on the subject, Dr. Childre has developed an exercise that can train even the hardest heart. Practice, according to the researcher, gradually teaches to forgive, gradually making forgiveness part of daily life.
First, think of a person from whom you have some kind of hurt? and feel the desire to forgive. Then try to send all the feelings associated with this person (even the negative ones such as grudge, anger and resentment) into your heart as you try to? Send? to the person pure feelings, such as love, compassion and forgiveness. You must repeat the process every time you remember this person.
Persistent repetition of this exercise, according to Dr. Childre, will make you better able to manage the negative emotions you have toward a particular person. The so-called? Intelligence of the heart? It is a different kind of inner intelligence that can only be accessed after some time of practice. This intelligence is able to release negative feelings faster than "rational" intelligence.
Forgiving yourself is also a process that can be learned. The human being tends to blame himself for his own mistakes even more severely than he thinks of others' mistakes, because he has the wrong impression that this kind of attitude is necessary to learn the real lesson. However, those who can forgive their faults also tend not to commit them again, and reliving the error is no more productive than overcoming it.
The Real Risk of Forgiveness–And Why It’s Worth It | Sarah Montana | TEDxLincolnSquare (May 2024)
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