Anyone familiar with Italian opera or the plays of Shakespeare knows the terrible price paid for grudges, vendetta, and revenge.
Under the sway of these emotions painful incidents linger in the mind, sapping our ability to find peace and happiness.
The 18th century English poet, Alexander Pope, gave us the antidote: " to err is human, to forgive divine".
But finding a way to forgive without giving up our principles is often no easy task.
In this course, I am going to address what forgiveness is and how to implement it.
I'll be speaking here about forgiveness where it most often is needed in the context of your every day personal life with family members, friends, co-workers, and business associates.
One of our challenges in understanding this process is that the word -- forgiveness -- is inadequate to explain a very complex concept.
Forgiveness actually embodies three different things, each of which applies to different situations and provides different results.
The three types of forgiveness are: Exoneration, orbearance and release.
Let's take each in turn.
