Chuck Bryant

And what they're discovering is that forgiveness can actually undo that, can actually reverse that.

There was a study that rated people based on the life stresses they'd had, and they apparently recruited participants for the study.

who'd been through a lot of stress, so much so that they were basically always chronically stressed because they have had so many terrible events in their life.

And there was one group that actually did not have poor health compared to the rest of the group.

And they found that when they gave them a test of forgiveness, of how forgiving they were generally, they found that this subset was actually overall a very forgiving group.

And that that somehow was battling back the chronic stress or the effects of chronic stress on their health in life.

Yeah, I mean, I think that makes complete sense.

If you were someone who...

really has a problem with forgiving and just holds on to these deep, deep resentments against people, usually against people very close to you and your family even, that just, that can't be good for you physically.

I've seen it happen.

I don't want to get too personal, but there are people in my family who haven't spoken for 20 plus years over dumb stuff that it's like you see that kind of like stubbornness coupled with resentment.

And it's just and that is just no way to live.

Yeah.

No way to live.

Yeah.

So there was another one that, another study that Dave turned up that shows that even like in a very short term, thinking about holding a grudge can actually affect you physiologically.

Yeah.

By activating your sympathetic nervous system, as Dave puts it, the battle or skedaddle impulse.

And they found that they cut these two groups into – or they cut the participants into two groups.

All of the people had to think about some time when they were deeply wronged in the past.