Forgiveness

Forgiveness isn’t about the person or people being forgiven—it’s a gift you give yourself that allows your heart to stop being contracted. When you forgive, you release the toxic resentment and anger you’re holding in your heart, finally freeing yourself to get on with your life.
…. The medical community is starting to recognize the major role that anger and resentment play in creating disease and addictions. ~ Shimoff, Marci. Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out (p. 137-8). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.

…the major role that anger and resentment
play in creating disease and addictions.I learned the hard way that anger and resentment
can screw up Recovery. I came into the Rooms
and it was smooth sailing for a while…
until a foreign trip with most evenings
spent working on a project promised out
soon after our return home.
Then I learned on coming home
a “friend” had betrayed me,
the work I had done was in vain,
futile, wasted, usurped.
Filing suit was required
but others stopped my intentions.
My Recovery slid away as I proved
conclusively he major role
that anger and resentment play
in creating addiction!! (Mine)
It ate at me for months then years.
And a decade later I’ve matured enough
to understand  forgiveness isn’t about
the person or people being forgiven—
it’s a gift you give yourself
that allows your heart
to stop being contracted.

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