The need to forgive because unforgiveness increases anxiety.

Описание: Unforgiveness disrupts your ability to feel calm and keeps you stuck in a cycle of negative emotions, feelings, and thoughts about yourself or others.
Notice, if you are feeling anxious, irritable, or unfulfilled for a period of time, it could be that unforgiveness and anxiety have partnered to disrupt your nervous system regulation. Perhaps you are striving to please people, feeling exhausted by the need to control, or living in a constant drive for perfection.

Everyone sins, therefore everyone needs forgiveness.
The connection between unforgiveness and anxiety.
If we harbor unforgiveness in our hearts, whether toward ourselves or others, fear and shame grow. Anxiety is an abnormal sense of fear. And it is our nervous system's way of keeping us safe. So if anxiety is building, our nervous system is dysregulated, and therefore we are not able to access our pre-frontal cortex to make good, effective, meaningful decisions.

In addition, shame results in fear and nervous system dysregulation.

Nervous system dysregulation
When the nervous system is dysregulated for long periods, it can manifest in your body and reduce overall well-being. First, your brain is operating from the limbic system and relying on fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses. Here's what happens in each state:

Fight: You become irritated. Instead of responding to others or situations, you overreact. Overreaction leads to more shame, guilt, and disruption in relationships.

Flight: You run, and avoid.

Freeze: You feel stuck.

Fawn: People-pleasing becomes part of your identity.

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Robyn Graham
Neuroscience and Anxiety Coach for Moms in Leadership | Host of The Robyn Graham Show | Author of "You, Me, and Anxiety"
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