{"id":29684,"date":"2016-08-27T08:42:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T07:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=29684"},"modified":"2016-08-27T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T07:42:39","slug":"7-reasons-you-shouldnt-hold-a-grudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/7-reasons-you-shouldnt-hold-a-grudge\/","title":{"rendered":"7 REASONS YOU SHOULDN’T HOLD A GRUDGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"angry<\/a><\/p>\n

People keep grudges and believe it’s okay to hold a grudge, but it’s never okay to hold a grudge. When you hold a grudge, you hold yourself back, and you set yourself from moving forward.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been holding grudges before; these reasons should make you stop.<\/p>\n

1. YOUR HEART BECOMES HEAVY <\/strong><\/p>\n

Grudges make your heart heavy; when you hold a grudge, you constantly keep someone alive in your head and relive those horrible moments. Your heart will never be free when you do this.<\/p>\n

2. YOUR HEART COULD ALSO BECOME AFFECTED <\/strong><\/p>\n

Minus making your heart heavy, holding grudges could literally affect your health. Anger could also affect your physical health. A study published by the American heart association<\/em> suggests that high levels of anger may increase the risk of coronary heart disease.<\/p>\n

3. STRESS <\/strong><\/p>\n

You also stress yourself when you hold a grudge. Grudges will make you relive those past events that hurt you, and this would cause you pain and bitterness in the present, which would increase your physiological stress responses.<\/p>\n

4. YOU WASTE MENTAL ENERGY <\/strong><\/p>\n

You kill your energy and waste it on irrelevant matters when you hold a grudge. Holding a grudge would make you think of irrelevant things rather than positive ones. You will waste your mental energy on unimportant matters when you hold a grudge, rather than using your mental energy for something more productive. So you waste your mental energy on things that wouldn’t benefit you, when you keep a grudge.<\/p>\n

5. IT WILL WEAR YOU DOWN <\/strong><\/p>\n

Keeping grudges will wear you down over time; you would become a bitter person when you think of those bitter moments, and this could kill all the positive vibes in your body, and wear you down emotionally and psychologically.<\/p>\n

6. YOU SLEEP BETTER <\/strong><\/p>\n

You cannot sleep well when you hold a grudge. Holding a grudge is like holding a heavy object; you won’t feel free until you let it out.<\/p>\n

A 2005 study even found that people who let go of resentment had better sleep. Wouldn’t you want to have a good sleep?<\/p>\n

7. GRUDGES AREN’T EVEN IMPORTANT IN THE FIRST PLACE\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

It isn’t even important to hold a grudge; holding a grudge would make you think about irrelevant issues that don’t really matter, when you should think about something more productive.<\/p>\n

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Holding a grudge might be the worst mistake you can ever make. You take yourself backward when you do this.<\/p>\n

Jake <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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