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They found that those subjects who had engaged in forgiveness experienced significantly improved cardiac blood flow, even four months after the forgiving had taken place.
When thoughts of anger and revenge invade your brain, both halves of the autonomic nervous system are activated at once — the sympathetic, which charges you up, and also the parasympathetic, which calms you down.
The result is stress on the heart, and the results can be damaging.