Tag Archives: emotion

Forgiveness: How to Let Go of Grudges and Bitterness

December 1, 2007 – 10:54 pm

From MayoClinic.com.
When someone you care about hurts you, you can hold on to anger, resentment and thoughts of revenge or embrace forgiveness and move forward.
By embracing forgiveness, you embrace peace, hope, gratitude and joy. Here, Katherine M. Piderman, Ph.D., staff chaplain at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., discusses forgiveness and how it can lead you down [...]

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Falsely Accused Woman Freed after 70 Years

October 21, 2007 – 4:03 pm

From Telegraph by David Sapsted.
Seventy years locked up in institutions hardly seems to be a punishment that befits the crime of stealing half-a-crown.
However, it is just such a fate that befell Jean Gambell when at the age of 15, in 1937, she was falsely accused of stealing 2s 6d (12.5p) from the doctor’s surgery where [...]

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10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain

August 20, 2007 – 12:20 am

From Discover Magazine.

How is information coded in neural activity?
It is likely that mental information is stored not in single cells but in populations of cells and patterns of their activity. Although traveling bursts of voltage can carry signals across the brain quickly, those electrical spikes may not be the only—or even the main—way that information [...]

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