"It's Healthier to Love"
Dr. Bernie Siegel, M.D., the Cancer Specialist and Author of, "Love, Medicine & Miracles". the Stories of People who Recovered from Cancer, wrote in Observation of their Recovery:
"It's Easier to Hate, but Healthier to Love".
The Poison of Resentment - Destructive to Your Body
The Usual Reaction when People are Hurt by Words or Actions, is Anger. If Anger is Not Released by Forgiveness, it can Lead to Resentment and Bitterness, Feelings that are Destructive and Deadly like Poison to the Body.
"Resentment is like taking Poison...and Waiting for the Other Person to Die." - Malachy McCourt
Forgive - Release Anger, Release Resentment to Be Healthy
The Oxford American Dictionary Definition of Forgive is:
"To Cease to FEEL Angry or Bitter towards a Person about an Offense."
The Release of Anger and Resentment, Keeps the Body Healthy.
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"Love Your Enemies"
Jesus was the Greatest "Healer" in Documented Human History. In his Presence the Body of the Sick and Disabled was Instantly *Restored* to Health. He said the Power for Body Restoration came from The Creator of the Human Body who Wants People to Live Together in Peace and Health.
Jesus said: "Love Your Enemies...because He (The Creator) is KIND to the Unthankful and Wicked (His Wayward Children)." Luke 6:35
In Dr. Bernie Siegel, M.D.'s book, "Love, Medicine & Miracles" is the Quote of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jesus' Recommendation to "Love Your Enemies":
"Forgiveness does Not mean Ignoring what has been Done or putting a False Label on an Evil Act. It means, rather, that the Evil Act no longer remains as a BARRIER to the Relationship...We much Recognize that the Evil Deed of the Enemy Neighbor, the thing that Hurts, never quite Expresses ALL that he is. An Element of Goodness may be found even in our Worst Enemy.
The meaning of Love is Not to be Confused with some Sentimental Outpouring. Love is something much Deeper than Emotional Bosh...Now we can see what Jesus meant when he said, "Love Your Enemies". We should be Happy that he did Not say, "Like Your Enemies". It is almost Impossible to Like some People. "Like" is a Sentimental and Affectionate Word.
How can we be Affectionate toward a Person whose Avowed Aim is to Crush our very Being and Place Innumerable Sumbling Blocks in our Path? How can we Like a Person who is Threatening our Children or Bombing our Homes? That is Impossible.
But Jesus recognized that Love is Greater than Like. When Jesus bids Us to Love Our Enemies, he is Speaking of Understanding and Creative, Redemptive Goodwill for ALL Men.
Only by Following this Way and Responding with this Type of Love are We able to be Children of Our Father who is in Heaven."
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Release Anger from the Mind - Stay in the Present
Start Each Day Fresh for the Sake of Your Health
A Person who wants to Be Healthy knows they Must Release Thoughts of Anger and Resentment. How? Say, "I Want to Be Healthy Now" - Think what Happened, the Hurtful Words or Actions, have been Done and Spoken, they are Now the Pain of an Offense that is the Past. Free Yourself of the Painful Thoughts and Feelings that were in Reaction, at the Time, to the Offense.
Say, "I Release the Anger I Felt because of What (I or the Other Person) Said or Did" or
"I Forgive (Myself or You) for What was Said or Done".
Release Anger from the Body - Exercise - Walking
Anger is a Physical Emotion, that Requires a Physical Release. When Angry, the Muscles of the Body Tense and Tighten. Exercise, like Fast Walking, Swinging Arms or Dancing to Fast Songs, can Release the Physical Tension of Anger. Angry Couples can Release their Anger and Tension toward Each Other by having Healthy Sex, and Saying "I Love You".
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Saying "I LOVE You" Instant Healing Story
In the book, "Love, Medicine & Miracles" by Dr. Bernie Siegel, M.D., are the Stories of Survivors of the Holocaust in Germany.
"Another Survivor, Jack Schwarz, has told how he Passed out during aWhipping and had a Vision of Christ (Jesus). Filled with Love from the Image, he said to his Torturer (in German): "Ich Liebe Dich" (I LOVE You).
The Guard was so Shocked that he Stopped, and he was even more Astounded when he saw Right before his Eyes the Prisoner's Wounds Healing within Moments."
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Attitude of Forgiveness - LOVE - Restores and Maintains the Body Healthy
In the book, "Love, Medicine & Miracles" by Dr. Bernie Siegel, M.D., is another Story of a Survivor of the Holocaust in Germany.
"Psychiatrist George Ritchie, author of "Return from Tomorrow", tells this story of "Wild Bill", one of the Death-Camp Survivors with whom he Worked after the Liberation:
"(Wild Bill) was one of the Inmates of the Concentration Camp, but obviously he hadn't been there long: His Posture was Erect, his Eyes Bright, his Energy Indefatigable. Since he was Fluent in English, French, German and Russian, as well as Polish, he became a Kind of Unofficial Camp Translator...
Though Wild Bill Worked 15 and 16 Hours a Day, he Showed NO Signs of Weariness. While the rest of Us were Drooping with Fatigue, he seemed to Gain Strength...
I was Astonished to learn when Wild Bill's own Papers came before Us one day, that he had been Wuppertal since 1939! For 6 Years he had Lived on the Same Starvation Diet, Slept in the same Airless and Disease-Ridden Barracks as Everyone Else, but without the Least Physical or Mental Deterioration...
Wild Bill was our Greatest Asset, Resoning with the Different Groups, Counseling Forgiveness. "It's not Easy for some of them to Forgive," I commented to him one day..."So many of them have Lost Members of their Families."
Bill: "We Lived in the Jewish Section of Warsaw," he began slowly, the First Words I had heard him Speak about Himself, "My Wife, our Two Daughters, and our Three Little Boys. When the Germans reached our Street they Lined Everyone against a Wall and Opened Up with Machine Guns. I Begged to be Allowed to Die with my Family, but because I spoke German they put me in a Work Group.
I had to Decide right then, whether to Let Myself Hate the Soldiers who had done this. It was an Easy Decision, really. I was a Lawyer. In my Practice I had Seen too Often what Hate could do to People's Minds and Bodies.
Hate had just Killed the Six People who Mattered Most to Me in the World. I Decided then that I would spend the Rest of my Life - whether it was a Few Days or Many Years - Loving Every Person I came in Contact with."
This (LOVE) was the Power that had kept a Man Well in the Face of every Privation."
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