Might relaxation training work as well as forgiveness when we are angry with other people?
Relaxation training is good for reducing anger and stress, but it focuses mostly on the anger and stress as symptoms. Relaxation, at least temporarily as you practice it, can reduce that anger and stress. Yet, once you are no longer relaxing, the anger and stress can build up again. Forgiveness, in contrast, does not focus on symptoms but instead focuses on the causes of the anger and stress, which, in the context of forgiveness, is a person and the person’s unjust actions. Forgiving can cure the anger rather than address it temporarily.
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