This series of blogs examines the relationship between forgiveness and health. The following research describes benefits of forgiveness therapy for patients dying of cancer. 

This blog is one of a series on forgiveness and its' health benefits. This report is about forgiveness and patients with heart disease.

This blog is one of a series on forgiveness and its' health benefits. Science continues to show a relationship between health and forgiveness.

This blog is the third of a series on forgiveness and its' health benefits. 

A recent study (April 2010), conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, investigated the relationship between forgiveness and apology based on the heart's ability to return to normal rate following a laboratory mental exercise.

This article is one of a series on forgiveness and its' health benefits.

Florida State University conducted research on prayer and forgiveness. The objective? To test whether praying for a relationship partner would increase someone's willingness to forgive that partner. Participants who were assigned to pray for their romantic partner reported greater willingness to forgive that partner than those who described their partner to an imagined parent.

This article begins a series examining the topic of forgiveness and the health benefits that come from forgiving. Research shows that forgiveness and health are definitely related.

First, let’s look at forgiveness in a general sense and what the Bible says about it:

It is not uncommon for Christians to have questions about forgiveness. For most of us, forgiveness doesn't come easy. Our instinct is to recoil in self-protection when we are injured. We don't naturally overflow with mercy, grace or forgiveness when we've been wronged.