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    This document discusses the differences between revenge and forgiveness, and summarizes a study on the effects of each in response to bullying. The study found that while forgiveness and avoidance both reduced negative emotions, forgiveness was more physiologically stressful in the short term. Revenge, on the other hand, decreased feelings of empowerment and self-esteem. The researchers ultimately recommend using avoidance initially to relax, and pursuing forgiveness later once strong enough to face the pain. Forgiveness is beneficial long-term for health and relationships, but may represent a unique challenge when dealing with the powerlessness of bullying.

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    This document discusses the differences between revenge and forgiveness, and summarizes a study on the effects of each in response to bullying. The study found that while forgiveness and avoidance both reduced negative emotions, forgiveness was more physiologically stressful in the short term. Revenge, on the other hand, decreased feelings of empowerment and self-esteem. The researchers ultimately recommend using avoidance initially to relax, and pursuing forgiveness later once strong enough to face the pain. Forgiveness is beneficial long-term for health and relationships, but may represent a unique challenge when dealing with the powerlessness of bullying.

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    This document discusses the differences between revenge and forgiveness, and summarizes a study on the effects of each in response to bullying. The study found that while forgiveness and avoidance both reduced negative emotions, forgiveness was more physiologically stressful in the short term. Revenge, on the other hand, decreased feelings of empowerment and self-esteem. The researchers ultimately recommend using avoidance initially to relax, and pursuing forgiveness later once strong enough to face the pain. Forgiveness is beneficial long-term for health and relationships, but may represent a unique challenge when dealing with the powerlessness of bullying.

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    This document discusses the differences between revenge and forgiveness, and summarizes a study on the effects of each in response to bullying. The study found that while forgiveness and avoidance both reduced negative emotions, forgiveness was more physiologically stressful in the short term. Revenge, on the other hand, decreased feelings of empowerment and self-esteem. The researchers ultimately recommend using avoidance initially to relax, and pursuing forgiveness later once strong enough to face the pain. Forgiveness is beneficial long-term for health and relationships, but may represent a unique challenge when dealing with the powerlessness of bullying.

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    The study found that while forgiveness and avoidance can help reduce negative emotions in the short term, forgiveness was the most stressful to imagine. Revenge led to decreased empowerment, self-esteem and ability to cope. Forgiveness may initially create tension when facing certain wrongdoings like bullying.

    The study found that forgiveness and avoidance seemed to show similar effects in reducing negative emotions over time. However, imagining forgiveness was the most stressful as measured by skin electrical activity. Revenge led to decreased empowerment, self-esteem and ability to cope.

    Past research has found long term benefits of forgiveness like better physical and mental health and more positive relationships. Young adults who are more forgiving also tend to engage in healthier coping strategies, exhibit less social anxiety, and feel less hurt when reflecting on experiences.

    REVENGE v/s FORGIVENESS

    What is revenge? : - The action of hurting or harming


    someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their
    hands.
    What is forgiveness? : - The action or process of forgiving or
    being forgiven.
    The Power of Forgiveness: Why Revenge Hurts You More.
    Forgiving others and releasing the desire to get revenge
    makes you a better person—literally. The desire to get
    revenge is a natural instinct and a normal response when
    someone wrongs you. No one wants to feel like they let a
    culprit “get away with it”.
    Nearly one in four teenagers is bullied every year. Our choice
    to forgive bullies—as teens or, later, as adults—is intensely
    personal, not one that any scientific study can answer for us.
    A new study by researchers at Macquarie University in
    Australia provides one consideration (among many) to inform
    the decision. But the results are mixed: While forgiveness can
    help us feel better, the researchers conclude, it can also be a
    stressful process—one reason why choosing to forgive is so
    difficult.
    They recruited 135 students who, in the past six months, had
    experienced bullying—meaning that they were repeatedly
    hurt by someone who had power over them, and they didn’t
    know how to escape the situation. Guided by an audiotape,

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    they visualized a recent bullying incident in detail; then, they
    answered some survey questions about their thoughts and
    feelings.
    Next, the participants were split into three groups. Another
    audiotape asked them to imagine one of three different
    outcomes of the bullying: forgiveness, avoidance, or revenge.
    In the forgiveness group, participants imagined forgiving the
    bully and feeling empathy for him or her. The avoidance
    group visualized being in a happy place, far away from the
    bully; in effect, they distracted themselves with positive
    thoughts. In the revenge group, participants imagined taking
    whatever form of revenge they desired. As they did this,
    researchers measured electrical activity on their skin with
    electrodes. Then, all three groups answered the survey
    questions again.
    The researchers were expecting forgiveness to be most
    beneficial across the board, but that wasn’t exactly the case.
    In fact, forgiveness and avoidance seemed to show similar
    effects: In both groups, participants’ negative emotions
    decreased over the course of the experiment. Participants
    who practiced forgiveness or avoidance didn’t feel stronger
    after the experiment, but they did fare better than the
    revenge group—whose sense of empowerment, self-esteem,
    and belief in their ability to cope with the bullying all went
    down. But imagining forgiveness proved to be the most
    stressful of the three outcomes, as measured by electrical

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    activity on the participants’ skin. As they visualized forgiving
    the bully, the forgiveness group calmed down more slowly
    than either the avoidance group or the revenge group.
    Past research has uncovered the long-term benefits of
    forgiveness, including better physical and mental health and
    more positive relationships. In the context of bullying, young
    adults who are more forgiving tend to engage in healthier
    coping strategies, exhibit less social anxiety, and experience
    less hurt when reflecting on the experience.
    Yet this study sheds light on the short-term: What happens
    today, when we make the choice to forgive, to distract
    ourselves from our suffering, or to seek vengeance? What
    makes us feel better now?
    Here, in contrast to previous research, forgiveness appeared
    to be stressful—leading the researchers to hypothesize that
    bullying is a special case. Forgiveness “is a process that
    involves directly facing the hurt within oneself,” they write,
    and bullying—with the persistent sense of powerlessness
    that comes with it—“may represent a unique category of
    harm.” Instead of soothing, then, forgiveness may initially
    create tension in the face of certain wrongdoings.
    Ultimately, the researchers recommend a mixed strategy.
    Avoidance, while calming in the short-term, isn’t good for our
    psychological health in the long run. The best approach may
    be avoidance now and forgiveness later, keeping ourselves
    relaxed and secure until we feel strong enough to face the

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    pain.
    Forgiveness is a paradigm-shifting solution for transforming
    anger. It liberates you from the trap of endless revenge so
    that you can experience more joy and connection.
    Forgiveness does more for you than anyone else because it
    liberates you from negativity and lets you move forward.
    Forgiving might not make anger totally dissolve but it will
    give you the freedom of knowing you are so much more.

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