Editing Forgiveness (section)

===Recommendations and interventions===

The researchers also came up with recommendations for practitioners and interventions to help married individuals communicate with each other, to resolve problems, and to forgive each other more easily. For example, people should explore and understand what forgiveness means before starting any intervention because preconceived ideas of forgiveness can cause problems with couples being open to forgiving.<ref name="Fincham Hall Beach 2006" /> For example, a conflict may arise if a person does not forgive their spouse out of fear that the spouse might think that they are weak.

In 2001, Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet asked people to think about someone who had hurt, wronged, or offended them. As they thought to answer, she observed their blood pressure, heart rate, facial muscle tension, and sweat gland activity. Recalling the grudge increased the candidates’ blood pressure and heart rate, and they sweated more. The rumination was stressful and unpleasant. When they adopted forgiveness, they showed no more of an anxiety reaction than normal wakefulness produces.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Granting Forgiveness or Harboring Grudges: Implications for Emotion, Physiology, and Health |journal=Psychological Science |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=117–123 |date=2001-03-01 |doi=10.1111/1467-9280.00320 |pmid=11340919 |last1=vanOyen-Witvliet|first1=Charlotte|last2=Ludwig |first2=Thomas E. |last3=Laan |first3=Kelly L. Vander |s2cid=473643 |url=https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2300&context=faculty_publications |url-access=subscription }}</ref>