Benefits of Positive Ritual

It has felt really important to me in the last year or so to start actively practicing forgiveness. Both for myself and with others. But it doesn’t come easily to me and it hasn’t been a process that has come all at once. I am not a religious person, but I was brought up surrounded by religion. There has always been a weightiness to the idea of forgiveness that felt like it was reserved for confession or death beds, not part of an everyday routine.

I think I really started with gratitude. I’m a big believer in actions changing one’s attitude. I’ve experienced it and it is something…