Chuck Bryant

Yeah.

And then one group was taken through an exercise where they learned to forgive the person.

The other group – this is so mean – was encouraged to hold a grudge.

They were basically taught – they went through an exercise to hold a grudge and be angry and resentful about that.

And they found that the people who were taught to hold the grudge had elevated skin conductance, which meant their nervous system was aroused.

Higher arterial blood pressure, not good.

They also had muscle tension in the brow area, you know, when your brows furrowed, when you're stressed out or mad.

Sure.

And the symptoms, even after they went through an exercise to basically de-escalate everything, the symptoms persisted.

Yeah.

And this was just an exercise where you were just thinking about being wronged and then holding a grudge about it.

Just like a – this was like an hour out of their lives.

And that was the effects.

That was the findings of that.

So it's pretty clear that –

That yes, anger can affect you physically.

And what they haven't, we don't have the reams of data that we have supporting it like we do that anger hurts you physically.

But there seems to be the opposite of that holds true, which is releasing that anger, which is forgiveness in whatever form it takes, can actually improve your health as well.

Right.

Earlier in the episode, we were talking about religion.