Forgiveness as Tool for Transformation
Click here to add this blog to your feed (subscribe to Blog) Two Perspectives on Personal Transformation Two Perspectives’ is a bi-monthly column with two different perspectives from two different continents, genders and cultures on the same topic viz. Dr Janet Smith Warfield (based in Florida, USA) and Dr Amit Nagpal (based in New Delhi, India). Dr Janet Smith Warfield's Perspective, USA Why Forgive? Certainly not because somebody tells you to. That's the worst possible reason. You won't mean it and you won't follow through. You forgive because it benefits you. It gives you permission to move on with your life and stop giving free rent in your head to people who have hurt you. Why would you want to reward and empower those people by allowing their hurtful conduct to keep repeating itself in your mind? Take your power back by focusing on what you want to do with your life. Who to Forgive? Forgive yourself. You did the best ...