By Kori D. Miller — 2021
Throughout this article, you will discover that expressing gratitude reduces stress, increases optimism, and changes your brain.
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Whether you said something out of anger and hurt your partner’s feelings or you completely forgot about a deadline for work, your next move is critical. So on today’s Friday Fix, I share the exact things you should say to increase the chances that your apology will be accepted.
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Despite our best-laid plans, life is difficult, and we sometimes experience anger, anxiety, frustration, and doubt. This emotional chaos can negatively affect the way we live our lives.
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When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.
People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
What would happen if you made gratitude your focal point for one full year? With Living in Gratitude, Angeles Arrien invites you to find out.
Fred Luskin explains why gratitude and compassion help people look beyond themselves to enable forgiveness.
Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of people in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. His first book, Psychopath Free, explained how to identify and survive the immediate situation.
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