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Forgive and live longer
Forgiveness helps you live longer, discovered the American psychologist Loren Toussaint from a study of over 1200 people over the age of 65. The results of the study have been published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Study
For his analysis Toussaint used data from the Religion, Aging and Health Survey, done by the University of Michigan. The survey collected data on the spiritual inclinations, feelings of forgiveness and health of Christian, lapsed Christian and born atheist Americans over 65.
Results
Using statistics Toussaint was able to deduce that an attitude of forgiveness towards others improves health, and better health reduces the risk of dying.
Toussaint does distinguish between conditional and unconditional forgiveness. Conditional forgiveness is when you forgive someone for something that they themselves also think was wrong; that realisation is not necessary when forgiveness is unconditional.
Unconditional forgiveness is what some religious leaders demand of people who were for example abused by priests as young children. We never did anything to prevent the perpetrators from going about their business, say the leaders, and we are not about to take any measures that would indicate that the church has in any way failed. Nevertheless we think that you should forgive paedophile priests.
According to Toussaint's research, you become healthier through conditional forgiveness. Unconditional forgiveness has no effect however.
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