You have probably heard of all the coping strategies like counting to ten, going for a walk, or taking a breath but they are just that. A way to cope. There is one absolute way to completely resolve your anger in less than two seconds. A cure. It is to forgive them. Forgiving completing resolves your anger.

There has to be a cure. After all, if there wasn’t then we would get angry and stay that way for ever. What did we eventually get around to doing? Forgiveness.

Letting go is just another way of saying forgiveness. Forgiving resolves our anger completely. But most people can’t forgive the most terrible things at first. It takes practice. Start small. Start small with someone you actually like right now. Forgive them for something small they did you irritate you.

Forgiving is an emotional muscle.

We forgive to get them out of our heads. Sure, it might help them too but it is more for us. Most other people usually forget about how they have wronged people. Staying mad at them does not help us that much unless we do something about it.

Trust is not forgiveness.

That has to be earned but we seem to forget that too.