James Kimmel, Jr.

for the grievances and perceived victimizations that they experience in their lives and we're licensed to do that legally and you know we're licensed to prescribe and manufacture and distribute legalized revenge for people so I went into that business in part to continue this

This gratification experience, but it bled over into my personal life and to my family life where I was, you know, just becoming sort of a continual Avenger in a very habitual way and I started to realize when I wanted to cut down because it was making me a pretty awful person and an unhappy person that I wasn't able to or I was only able to for short periods of time and

This gratification experience, but it bled over into my personal life and to my family life where I was, you know, just becoming sort of a continual Avenger in a very habitual way and I started to realize when I wanted to cut down because it was making me a pretty awful person and an unhappy person that I wasn't able to or I was only able to for short periods of time and

This gratification experience, but it bled over into my personal life and to my family life where I was, you know, just becoming sort of a continual Avenger in a very habitual way and I started to realize when I wanted to cut down because it was making me a pretty awful person and an unhappy person that I wasn't able to or I was only able to for short periods of time and

uh... eventually it it pushed me away from the law to sort of save myself and begin to study over the last twenty years the idea of revenge is an addiction just about the time that i started to do that at the yale school of medicine other researchers around the world began to

uh... eventually it it pushed me away from the law to sort of save myself and begin to study over the last twenty years the idea of revenge is an addiction just about the time that i started to do that at the yale school of medicine other researchers around the world began to

uh... eventually it it pushed me away from the law to sort of save myself and begin to study over the last twenty years the idea of revenge is an addiction just about the time that i started to do that at the yale school of medicine other researchers around the world began to

put people in brain scanners and try and figure out what happens inside your brain when you have a grievance or a sense of victimization and then this desire for retaliation emerges in your mind and what's going on there and that's what we've learned so far but the good news is running on a separate track

put people in brain scanners and try and figure out what happens inside your brain when you have a grievance or a sense of victimization and then this desire for retaliation emerges in your mind and what's going on there and that's what we've learned so far but the good news is running on a separate track

put people in brain scanners and try and figure out what happens inside your brain when you have a grievance or a sense of victimization and then this desire for retaliation emerges in your mind and what's going on there and that's what we've learned so far but the good news is running on a separate track

to uh trying to understand what revenge is all about and violence a separate group of researchers were trying to understand what forgiveness is all about and found out some fascinating information which is that forgiveness just imagining what happens when you forget so let me put it this way if you have a grievance and you imagine forgiving it just imagine it you don't tell the other person that you're forgiving it

to uh trying to understand what revenge is all about and violence a separate group of researchers were trying to understand what forgiveness is all about and found out some fascinating information which is that forgiveness just imagining what happens when you forget so let me put it this way if you have a grievance and you imagine forgiving it just imagine it you don't tell the other person that you're forgiving it

to uh trying to understand what revenge is all about and violence a separate group of researchers were trying to understand what forgiveness is all about and found out some fascinating information which is that forgiveness just imagining what happens when you forget so let me put it this way if you have a grievance and you imagine forgiving it just imagine it you don't tell the other person that you're forgiving it

inside your brain that shuts down that pain network that i talked about so it actually takes away the pain instead of covering it up the way revenge does with a little uh... short acting hit of dopamine it then takes away the uh... revenge cravings by deactivating

inside your brain that shuts down that pain network that i talked about so it actually takes away the pain instead of covering it up the way revenge does with a little uh... short acting hit of dopamine it then takes away the uh... revenge cravings by deactivating

inside your brain that shuts down that pain network that i talked about so it actually takes away the pain instead of covering it up the way revenge does with a little uh... short acting hit of dopamine it then takes away the uh... revenge cravings by deactivating

the pleasure and reward circuitry of addiction, and then finally it reactivates your prefrontal cortex so that you're able to exert self-control, weigh costs and benefits, and make good decisions. So forgiveness is actually a wonder drug that we didn't even know had all of these powers, and this neuroscience really supports the ancient forgiveness teachings of luminaries like Jesus and the Buddha.

the pleasure and reward circuitry of addiction, and then finally it reactivates your prefrontal cortex so that you're able to exert self-control, weigh costs and benefits, and make good decisions. So forgiveness is actually a wonder drug that we didn't even know had all of these powers, and this neuroscience really supports the ancient forgiveness teachings of luminaries like Jesus and the Buddha.

the pleasure and reward circuitry of addiction, and then finally it reactivates your prefrontal cortex so that you're able to exert self-control, weigh costs and benefits, and make good decisions. So forgiveness is actually a wonder drug that we didn't even know had all of these powers, and this neuroscience really supports the ancient forgiveness teachings of luminaries like Jesus and the Buddha.

Yeah. And you only have to imagine forgiving. So you can go, I don't want to forgive anybody. I can't believe this guy just did that. Maybe flipped a finger, almost killed you, almost knocked your car off the road. And you might go, I don't want to forgive. I don't. And I get that. And I really do. But if you choose to imagine, just imagine for a few seconds, how would you feel if you forgave it?