The Effects of Forgiveness in the Real World

There's some irony here, because i think what i hear you saying is that when we 're trying to obtain some kind of inor mental or physical benefit, not only is that not potentially real forgiv s but perhaps we don't even get the full mental and physiological benefits of forgiveness. There's some interesting research that if you ask people to try to simply distract themselves, rather than trying to reappraise it in a forgiving way, for example,. later on, when they're prompted to relive the offence, it's the people who try to reappraised it in giving way that experience the blood pressure changes in an enduring way. I think lab experiments have their place, but we shouldn