Gratitude is a powerful emotion that has been shown to improve your mood, increase optimism and resilience, and make you more likely to help others.
People who practice gratitude are happier than those who do not.
Gratitude is proven to boost your happiness levels by making you feel appreciated for all the good things you have going on in your life right now as well as looking back on past memories with fondness rather than regret or guilt.
It is easy to feel like we are all caught up in our own worlds, but it is important that once in a while you take the time for appreciation. A gratitude journal can help with this because by writing down three things each day and looking back on them at night or early morning before work starts. This will help you be reminded of how lucky your life really has been.
Gratitude helps improve optimism.
It helps bring more joy and happiness to ourselves when things are going really rough. When we focus too much on all the bad stuff instead of what might be right in front of our faces or within reach. But in order to shift our mindset, we have the power of choice. When you begin looking at what’s available and not just on what you lack, it becomes easier when choosing gratitude over anxiety or anger because these negative emotions only lead us astray from finding abundance in life.
A moment with gratitude for yourself is going to help you feel that calmness.
When you take the time to thank yourself, it benefits your body in so many ways. You will feel calmness and relaxation flowing through every part of you. It’s a great feeling to take the time for yourself and say thank you. When we spend our days being constantly pulled in different directions, it can be hard not to have any quiet moments where our mind is free from distractions or worries about what needs doing next. But when you allow yourself this little break from reality – one that doesn’t involve anything other than appreciating who are as an individual human being with all sorts of amazing abilities.
Practicing gratitude can help you sleep better.
One great benefit of practicing gratitude is that it helps you sleep better. It improves your health and well-being. A lot of people don’t realize this, but our mental and emotional state has a huge impact on how we feel physically. Practice gratitude and be grateful for your health, body, physical ability, and mental capacity. Taking a moment to say thank you to yourself and to your body is going to help you really feel that calmness.
We all have the power to change not only this week but also throughout our lives.
This does not mean that you need a sudden transformation or an outside force, it can start from within and with just one decision in how we spend each day- from waking up early for meditation before work; taking some time and writing down things you are grateful for.
Gratitude also helps in the improvement of personal relationships.
Who doesn’t want their relationships to improve?
Whether it’s friendships, or relationships with our intimate partners or loved ones, family members, friends, colleagues, clients, or patients, whatever it is, when we can get into a state of gratitude, grateful for the interactions that we have, grateful for the relationships, our differences begin to melt away.
Best,
Dr. Asha Prasad
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