How Do You Forgive Someone? Why should You Forgive?

How do you forgive someone? Why should you Forgive?

 

       Deciding to forgive someone is extremely powerful. It is letting go the anger and the retaliation.  One of the first steps of forgiving is getting past yourself.  Removing the hurt, pain, and the spirit of wanting to pay them back for what he, or she did. It is really easy to build up walls and shut them out, but you only end up keeping yourself prisoner. A lot of the times we end up thinking about what that person did to you over and over in our mind. We then tell ourselves that it’s ok to be bottled with hate and anger.  When you decide to let go and forgive I think it is something that you have remind yourself about daily and hourly.  Forgiving can be a challenge and sometimes the old feelings that you thought you put away can come back up and stir up old feelings. Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you have to forget what was done to you. Accept what was done to you, that doesn’t necessarily means brush it off like it was nothing the best thing to do is face it head on. For some people it’s not easy to just to open up, but you will feel a lot better once it is done. I know forgiving is hard for me so I understand. Remember the whole point of forgiving is letting go all the anger and bitterness. Sometimes carrying around all that anger causes stress and health issues on ourselves. The person who did you wrong may not even know they did wrong, so you should tell them and hear them out.