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The power of forgiving those who’ve hurt you, with Robert Enright, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The Power of Forgiveness in a Secular Context

People often think of forgiveness in a religious context, many religions teach the value of forgiveness. Do you think and have you found in your research that religious people find it easier to forgive or is forgiveness just as possible and as powerful in a secular context? Our research has looked at people from all walks of life, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, humanistic, atheistic. And we find that when people walk the pathway of forgiveness that's been worked out scientifically and are willing to put the time in to become forgivingly fit, I've never seen a person fail miserably.

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