Gratitude Can Lift You Up, Even When You’re Down
“Research shows that people who practice gratitude are more likely to feel positive emotions, enjoy good experiences, improve health, boost resilience, and cultivate good relationships with others. In other words, practicing gratitude can bring you more joy, satisfaction, and connection, for which you can feel even more grateful. Gratitude is the gift that keeps on giving. Gratitude encompasses many practices, including appreciation, graciousness, optimism, recognizing the positive, and looking for silver linings.
Feeling pessimistic or overwhelmed indicates a negative focus, which can bring a person further down. If ruminating on the negative is keeping you up at night, take several deep, slow breaths, in and out, and then turn your focus toward what you are grateful for. Comforting yourself with gratitude can help you drift into sleep.
Countering negative thinking requires addressing any roadblocks, such as one's history, challenges, and beliefs about optimism. As time passes, practices of gratitude can become habits. The more gratitude you practice, the more happy and optimistic you can become. In this way, your thoughts create your reality. Focus solely on the negative, and you get to live in a world full of unhappiness. Focus at least some of your attention on the positive, and you get to live in a world that also contains happiness ”
Read the whole article at Psychology Today
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💬 How can you express gratitude?
@globalBraid3744 by being kind and genuinely appreciative towards nice people and make them aware of their niceness 💕
@Optimisticempath
This is admirable! Keep up spreading this love and appreciation! It can have a big impact on someone's life.
