MENTAL HEALTH IN THE HEART OF MAUN

It is not possible to take flight if resentment keeps you anchored to the ground. Home Page - Spanish - Setswana Every human being has received offenses from others, and in response, there can be a deviation into resentment, which is a lasting anger associated with the desire to harm the one considered the cause of the supposed offense or harm received. Since the resentful person broods over their discomfort almost all the time, they keep their mind and body at high levels of tension that deteriorate their health and weaken their organism. - Resentment shortens life. With this, instead of causing the desired harm to the offender, they harm themselves. - Holding a grudge is like:   - Drinking a cup of poison and expecting the offender to die.   - Grasping a hot coal with the bare hand with the intention of throwing it at someone.   - Setting yourself on fire and hoping the hated one dies from inhaling the smoke.   - Letting the one you hate live inside your head. The...

Forgiving is like freeing a prisoner and discovering that the inmate was you. Home Page - Spanish - Setswana As a proposal for a healthy attitude towards received grievances, there is the disposition to forgive or excuse the mistakes of others, which is indulgence. - For those who are not indulgent, life is a punishment worse than death. Forgiving consists of deciding to abandon resentments and not feel the offense anymore, thereby being able to remember without pain and achieving peace for oneself and for the offender. This allows one to be free from the suffering that resentment and hatred bring. - He who forgives stops bleeding from the wound. - Forgiveness is the only antidote for the poison you have allowed to circulate within you. - He who forgives no longer feels the offense and regains lost calm. - Forgiving is doing an internal cleansing, removing the bad that someone left in you. - The one who forgives ends the tragedy.  Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does ...