Set Yourself Free of Anger and Resentment by Choosing Forgiveness (Day 17 of 30)

How does your body feel when you’re holding anger and resentment towards someone in your life for an offense or mistake they’ve made?  

Icky and terrible, right? Like dragging a ball and chain around with you all day.

Ever stop to wonder why? 

It's because of the negative thoughts we have about the offender. Those thoughts create feelings in our body that only we can feel. The offender only experiences their interpretation of our behavior, because they have their own thoughts that create their own feelings. We have no control over them.

So if we want to be free of the ball and chain, we have to choose the path of genuine forgiveness. FOR OUR OWN SAKE. Continuing to think negative thoughts only hurts us.

If you struggle with this concept, really ask yourself what purpose your feelings of anger and resentment serve? How do they serve YOU?

Forgiveness is not for the benefit of the other person, but for ourselves.

We don’t need to wait for the offender to express remorse, regret or apologize. We also don’t need to act differently once we do forgive them (for example, we don’t have to start talking to them again).  Nor are we condoning their behavior either! We are simply forgiving so we can release ourselves from the emotional weight and move on in our lives. They don’t even need to KNOW! This is a gift to ourselves. 😉 

So if you want to set yourself free of anger and resentment, choose forgiveness and release that ball and chain today! 

P.S. Master Coach Krista St Germain for widowed moms has a great podcast on forgiveness if you want delve into this topic in greater depth. Click here. 

✨See you tomorrow for Day 18 of 30 lessons learned from 2019!

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