>While forgiveness offers mental health benefits like reduced stress and anxiety... It's not necessarily a direct causal relationship. Research shows that the

>While forgiveness offers mental health benefits like reduced stress and anxiety... It's not necessarily a direct causal relationship. Research shows that the reduced anxiety associated with forgiveness is more causally connected to intermediate factors such as managing anger and an optimistic/hopeful viewpoint rather than forgiveness per se. See e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10120569/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10120569/