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Today's talk comes from pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, we're talking about forgiveness today,

and I would imagine everybody in here would acknowledge that forgiveness is a good thing.

It's healthy, it's mature to forgive somebody who's wronged you, and it's deeply beneficial to you.

That was much of an Atlantic article. and it's deeply beneficial to you.

That was much of an Atlantic article I read not that long ago.

It was about the mental and physical benefits of forgiveness.

They talk about people who forgive, have a reduction in stress, depression, anxiety, and I think many of us who know that.

Yeah, there's a great medical benefit to forgiving people.

And they just quoted all manner of studies about, people who forgive found that in different studies that they complained of less physical symptoms they use less medications they slept better had less, had less medical complaints, that it releases the amount of cortisol, stress hormone that's released in you, you get a better sense of well-being.

Another study showed that those who hold on to resentment see a decrease in brain size, sex

drive, and digestive ability and all of us go, wow that's bad, I don't want that, so

let me forgive people just for the sake of my

digestion and sex life. I'll need to forgive you. There was another study in

there that showed that people were asked to recall a memory and feel resentment over someone who wronged them.

And then another group was called to remember a memory where they forgave someone altruistically.

And then they had both groups jump, the forgiving group jumped seven centimeters higher.

They said it's even sort of a mental exercise when you feel burdened by guilt and shame and

resentment, it even burdens you physically physically and so some of you have been

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