Role of forgiveness in life satisfaction in students Arshia asif Roll no;51 Government post graduate college Satellite town Gujranwala
Role of forgiveness in life satisfaction among students
There are many hardships in our life. Life is not bed of roses. Forgiveness is an important factor for leading a healthy wealthy and prosperous life. Forgiveness is important for our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health .Forgiveness helps you to reduce the pain when someone hurts you or does something wrong with you then you feel unbearable pain, the sting by a person or incident. In these manners forgiveness is most important .The life satisfaction of a person depends also on his quality of forgiveness
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2. Forgiveness involves letting go negative response following an offense.
3.Through the forgiveness , a positive response towards the offender emerges.(Recine AC, Werner S and Racine, (2009).
In 2008 Lundahl search on intervention of forgiveness .They found that individual intervention is four times as effective as group intervention . They also concluded that longer intervention produced stronger results. When they separate out studies with clinically distressed subjects, the benefits were a full two standard deviations higher for those receiving forgiveness interventions than for the controls. Lundahl research also showed that the forgiveness interventions they studied work equally for women and for men and for all minority groups and across all
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This scale takes about one minute of a respondent time.
Operational definition
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a skill that helps an individual to forget other people mistakes or wrongdoings and behave with them in a good way. There should be no impact ones ones behavior of others wrongdoings .Forgiveness involves our responses to God when people offend us. Offenses are the wrongs that people do with us it also include the hurts, frustrations, and the irritations. Offenses are those things that cause us hardship and grief.
Life satisfaction
The life satisfaction includes such things or works with which our life satisfy. To which degree we are satisfy and with what thing. The high scores of students indicates the rate of satisfaction with their lives.
Procedure
The data was collected through sampling. After taking the consent of students, questionnaires were (HFS &SWLS) at the college in their classes. The students were told how to solve the questionnaire. Many students returned the questionnaire at that time only few students return the questionnaire after 2 or 3 days. The final sample was consisted of 95
Finally, Kor expresses the importance of forgiveness. “Anger and hate are seeds that germinate war. Forgiveness is a seed for peace. It is the ultimate act of self-healing. I look at forgiveness as the summit of a very tall mountain” (Kor and Buccieri 133).
The “perpetrator” then reflects on their comment and feels guilty for it then transforms their attitude so they aren’t the “bad guy” anymore. I believe that forgiveness allows the perpetrator a chance for inner transformation and “to escape the whirlpool of wrongdoing” (Matthieu Ricard- 236)that they may feel caught
One thought a person must look at to decide what course of action to take is why people choose forgiveness. A person might decide on forgiveness because they want to set themselves free from bitterness. Lindgaard explains, "Not forgiving someone is the equivalent of
Forgive and Forget? Why do we continue to push the narrative that forgiveness is the key to happiness? Although forgiveness is often established as a crucial step toward achieving inner peace, it isn't necessary for happiness and well-being. Depending on the offense's severity and the offender's lack of remorse, holding onto negative emotions and choosing not to forgive can be a viable alternative that promotes personal well-being and empowerment for individuals.
Forgiveness Must Be Within Very few people are truly happy in life, because we are all a little mad at ourselves. The only way to become truly happy is to forgive yourself. In the book night the author Elie Wiesel tells the story of what he experienced throughout the holocaust. You see how horrible it was and how his life was affected by the atrocity. Although some people say that you do not need forgiveness to be happy I disagree.
Although, not everything/everyone deserves to be forgiven, forgiveness is necessary to be genuinely happy because holding onto something will cloud your vision and overwhelm someone with emotions. If you can never let go and forgive someone, holding onto something will eat away at your happiness or even distract you from being happy. From personal experience, I once got into an argument with my best friend who I would spend everyday talking to. We were a part of each other’s daily lives and would always be there for each other. Until one day we got into a heated argument and began to
We are humans and a majority of us have dealt with heartache, pain, broken promises, along with the joyous things like dreams, aspirations, and successful futures. Humans mess up and make mistakes, but we have to remember that forgiveness is a very prestigious and powerful thing. Forgiveness affects people’s lives in positive ways through the hardships, difficulties, and struggles of life. There comes a time when forgiveness should not be available to some individuals. However, this depends on the past situations that have occurred in your life as well as other individuals.
“I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.” (Kidd)
When I was younger, my parents taught me the difference between forgiving and forgetting. I believe that one can forgive without forgetting. When thinking about forgiveness, the first thing that comes to mind is the quote, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”. Do me wrong the first time and I will forgive you, however, I will not forget what you did so that you cannot fool me again.
1. I feel that forgiveness is not for the other person, it’s a process that provides you the energy and the self-confidence to move on. One reason why is forgiveness is not for the other is because in my experience, forgiveness is a situation where serious harm has been done to you physically or mentally. The next steps are finding a way to relieve your conscious of the harm caused.
A healed sin becomes reconciling friendship, becoming a source for fuller healing that embraces all. One can only redeem their sin if their redemption is done by heart and is meaningful. People who do not experience forgiveness, guilt swallows them up and they feel as if they are drowning. As Richard Baxter said, “that sorrow, even for sin, may be overmuch. That overmuch sorrow swalloweth one up.”
It’s only a fortunate few who are given the chance to atone for their sins. Committed sins create problem between friend, family and others. Forgiveness is not an easy thing to do when things have gone extremely wrong. “To err is human, to forgive divine” (Charu. B) That means committing errors is human, to forgive is divine.
It is very important to advise others of the lessons you have learned through your entire life. Many people can benefit from the knowledge of your past experiences. We are presented by this chances in our daily life. Forgiveness is a value that is fundamental to human relationships. I think that once you give a second chance, it is a friendly and kind gesture.
Forgiveness The word forgiveness sounds like an easy concept to understand and act upon it- but it’s much harder than anybody can believe. Saying the phrase, “I forgive you,” and actually going through the stages and presses of the forgiving process is two totally different things. For example, when someone you care about hurts you, you can hold on to anger, resentment and thoughts of revenge, or embrace forgiveness and move forward with your life.
Forgiveness is the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven. (Hawkins, 1994, P. 206) My personal understanding of the parable ‘The Prodigal Son” is that it portrays the importance of reasoning and forgiveness. The main characters in the parable are two sons and a betrayed father. The father remains constant throughout the parable, although he has being betrayed by his younger son.