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Dr. Fred Luskin on: The Forgiveness Experiment

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This video series is a dialogue between Dr. Fred Luskin, who holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Health Psychology from Stanford University where he served as director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, and Rev. Lyndon Harris, a chaplain at St. Paul’s Chapel in lower Manhattan, next to Ground Zero. They discuss the definition, experiments and learned skills of forgiveness and gratitude.

Dr. Luskin describes three research projects he conducted on forgiveness with people from both sides of the conflict in Northern Ireland. They reduced stress and depression 40% in the participants by providing training. He also talks about an on-going project involving financial advisors.

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Dr. Fred Luskin on: The Forgiveness Experiment

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Dr. Fred Luskin, Rev. Lyndon Harris

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Produced: 12.18.06
Uploaded: 01.06.07
License: Institute of Noetic Sciences

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Forgiveness: an effective approach

Submitted by Dale Steele on January 9, 2007 - 8:27am.

I think we forgive only when we are really sick of suffering.

It seems to me that we are only inspired to apply the effort required to forgive when we are convinced that our personal peace is more important than our story of what happened and the suffering associated with that story.

The suffering of not forgiving is the absence of peace in this moment.
I think there is a natural inclination toward peace, and once we truly understand how our attachment to our story causes us suffering, we give it up. But we have to really be willing to investigate our story and the affects it has on our lives.

When I thoroughly investigate my thoughts around my story, what ever it was that happened which I objected to, I become educated with a clear understanding of the results of my attachment to my story. Once I fully digest the results of my reactions to my thoughts about what happened, I see the futility of trying to have peace and still object to what happened.

We naturally move toward peace.
This organism is intelligent enough to move toward peace. Once I am thoroughly educated, by me studying my own responses to the disapproved of circumstance, it becomes a no brainer, I choose for peace because that is what this organism does naturally when it is aware of the ramifications of the options.

I do not have to burn my hand on the stove too many times before I see the predictability of the situation. Investigating the results of our objections to what happened enlightens us to wiser possibilities of a peaceful response now, to our memory.

The process I find most effective to this end, peace, is The Work of Byron Katie. www.thework.com Everything you need is free on the website.
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I am happy to help anyone learn to use this simple yet profound method of inquiry. dalebsteele@earthlink.net