The Power of Forgiveness
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This is a very special podcast where we talk about the power of forgiveness and the impact it has on your brain's health. They also discuss the health costs of holding on to hurts.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman. |
| 0:10.0 | In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears. |
| 0:15.0 | That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus, |
| 0:20.0 | well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:30.0 | So today we're going to talk about something that's hard for a lot of people. |
| 0:34.6 | Used to be really hard for me and that is forgiveness. |
| 0:37.3 | We want to talk about the consequences of not forgiving someone and for many people that we talk to it's like but they |
| 0:45.3 | don't deserve it I deserve to not forgive them so before we get too far down that |
| 0:49.8 | road many of you have heard the expression when when you don't forgive someone, it's like you drinking |
| 0:54.8 | poison and expecting the other person to die, right? |
| 0:57.7 | You've heard that expression? |
| 0:58.7 | That's so true. |
| 0:59.9 | So yeah, when you don't forgive people, it's really toxic to you. So if they don't forgive it, we just want to ask you if they don't |
| 1:03.2 | forgive it, we just want to ask you if they don't deserve your forgiveness, do |
| 1:09.1 | you deserve the benefit of you forgiving them. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, now we'll talk about why it's so important. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, and it's hard, and it's especially hard for certain brain types. |
| 1:20.0 | That if you're the kind of person where your frontal lobes work too hard, |
| 1:26.8 | and those people can be, tend to be worried, rigid, inflexible. |
| 1:34.5 | If things don't go their way, they get upset. |
| 1:37.2 | They can hold grudges, sometimes for decades. |
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