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Learning to Forgive Yourself
We all mess up sometimes. So why is learning to forgive yourself a lot harder than forgiving others?
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WebMD Feature Archive By Jean Lawrence
WebMD Feature Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
Your heart and ment [link to www.webmd.com] health may depend on your ability to reduce hurt and anger, even at yourself. So effective is forgiveness -- if we could find a way to learn and teach it -- that Stanford University is undertaking a project to learn how forgiveness can enhance health and relationships and even prevent disease.

But first, you might have to forgive yourself. Did you cheat on your spouse? Hit a child in anger? Steal something? Go off the wagon? The list of potential human misdeeds is long.

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If someone else did these things, you might learn to forgive them or at least let go of the anger. That's because it's easier to forgive others. After all, they don't live in your head, reading you the same old riot act. All the world's major religions preach the power of forgiveness. But