Amy Cuddy, PhD, is an American social psychologist, Harvard lecturer, and bestselling author. She is best known for her research into power posing, the act of standing in a posture that engenders feelings of power and confidence.
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Forgiveness is not just a selfish pursuit of personal satisfaction or righteousness. It actually alleviates the amount of suffering in the world.
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We must not confuse letting go of past injuries with feeling an obligation to let the injurers back into our life. The freedom of forgiveness often includes a firm boundary and loving distance from those who have harmed us.
You know why it’s hard to be happy—it’s because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.
Letting go of anger and hate requires us to give up the hope for a different past, along with the hope of a fantasized future. What we gain is a life more in the present, where we are not mired in prolonged anger and resentment that doesn’t serve us.
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