BEING THANKFUL IS A FEELING - BEING GRATEFUL IS AN ACTION.
Live out your gratitude every day through the small things you do, including expression your feelings of gratefulness.
Live out your gratitude every day through the small things you do, including expression your feelings of gratefulness.
Besides being good for others, experts and studies tell us practicing gratefulness in our lives is good for us and the benefits can be life-altering. Unfortunately, human beings are not hardwired to be grateful. We have to work at it and practice a lot.
Dr. Robert Emmons, author of” "Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You
Happier” says it’s good for us in the following ways.
● Gratitude makes us feel more gratitude.
While in a grateful mood, we will feel gratitude more frequently, when we do feel gratitude it will be more intense and held for longer, and we will feel gratitude for more things at the same time. In five words – gratitude triggers positive feedback loops.
Dr. Robert Emmons, author of” "Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You
Happier” says it’s good for us in the following ways.
● Gratitude makes us feel more gratitude.
While in a grateful mood, we will feel gratitude more frequently, when we do feel gratitude it will be more intense and held for longer, and we will feel gratitude for more things at the same time. In five words – gratitude triggers positive feedback loops.
 | ◄ Gratitude makes us happier. ► Gratitude makes people like us. Outwardly showing gratitude makes us nicer, more trusting, more social, and more appreciative. As a result, it helps us make more friends and deepen existing relationships. We’re nicer to be around. |  |
 | ◄Gratitude makes us healthier and sleep better. ►Gratitude boosts your career. Gratitude makes you a more effective manager, helps you network, improves your decision making, increases your productivity, and helps you get mentors and protégés. As a result, gratitude helps you achieve your career goals, as well as making your workplace a more enjoyable place to be. |  |
 | ◄Gratitude increases your energy level. ►Gratitude makes us more optimistic. Gratitude is strongly correlated with optimism. Optimism in turn makes us happier, improves our health, and has been shown to increase lifespan by as much as a few years. |  |
 | ◄ Gratitude makes us less self-centered. Some people spend way too much time thinking about themselves, and too little thinking about others. As gratitude and compassion practices develop, you may feel the urge to help others. ►Gratitude reduces materialism. |  |
Materialism is strongly correlated with reduced well-being and increased rates of mental disorder. There’s nothing wrong with wanting more. The problem with materialism is that it makes people feel less competent, reduces feelings of relatedness and gratitude, reduces their ability to appreciate and enjoy the good in life, generates negative emotions, and makes them more self-centered.
◄Gratitude increases self-esteem.
Imagine a world where no one helps you. Despite your asking and pleading, no one helps you. Now imagine a world where many people help you all of the time for no other reason than that they like you. In which world do you think you would have more self-esteem? Gratitude helps to create a world like that. How does gratitude create a more supportive social dynamic?
Imagine a world where no one helps you. Despite your asking and pleading, no one helps you. Now imagine a world where many people help you all of the time for no other reason than that they like you. In which world do you think you would have more self-esteem? Gratitude helps to create a world like that. How does gratitude create a more supportive social dynamic?
◄Gratitude makes our memories happier.
Our memories are who we are, and they are not set in stone. Memories of events, people, everything we experience can change over time. We can remember things as being worse than they actually were, as being longer or shorter, as being funnier, people as being kinder or crueler, as being more or less interesting, etc. Experiencing gratitude in the present makes us more likely to remember positive memories. Also, it can mutate
some of the neutral or even negative memories into positive ones
Our memories are who we are, and they are not set in stone. Memories of events, people, everything we experience can change over time. We can remember things as being worse than they actually were, as being longer or shorter, as being funnier, people as being kinder or crueler, as being more or less interesting, etc. Experiencing gratitude in the present makes us more likely to remember positive memories. Also, it can mutate
some of the neutral or even negative memories into positive ones
◄ Gratitude increases spiritualism
Spiritual transcendence is highly correlated with feelings of gratitude. That is – the more spiritual you are, the more likely you are to be grateful. This is for two reasons: 1) All major religions espouse gratitude as a virtue, and 2) Spirituality spontaneously gives rise to
grateful behavior.
Photo source: http://gregburdine.com/spiritual-growth
Spiritual transcendence is highly correlated with feelings of gratitude. That is – the more spiritual you are, the more likely you are to be grateful. This is for two reasons: 1) All major religions espouse gratitude as a virtue, and 2) Spirituality spontaneously gives rise to
grateful behavior.
Photo source: http://gregburdine.com/spiritual-growth
PAY IT FORWARD
The list goes on and on, but you get the idea. In fact, living out your gratitude does just about everything from making you look better and more inclined to exercise to washing your underwear (well, almost that).
Gratitude helps us realize what we have, and awareness of what we're grateful may reduce the tendency to want more all the time. Notice your everyday world from the viewpoint of gratitude. It’s astounding the good things we take for granted, and the not-so-good things we focus on. So be thankful on Thanksgiving for all the wonderful things in this world, and even some of the not-so-wonderful. Be grateful every day you live and in the way you live, and things will be better than ever.
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HAPPY TURKEY DAY!
Sources:
https://thepeacefulyogini.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/gift-it-forward-pay-it-forward-this-holiday-season/
https://www.unstuck.com/gratitude/
https://www.happierhuman.com/benefits-of-gratitude/
https://gratefulness.org/resource/what-is-gratitude/
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a45386/gratitude-lists-dont-work/
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_parents_neglect_to_teach_about_gratitude
ww.google.com/search?q=difference+between+thankful+and+grateful&oq=Difference+between+thankful+&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.11044j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8Z
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/difference-thankful-grateful
https://culturedindividuals.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/materialism-agree-disagree-or-what/
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Charlie-Brown-Thanksgiving/Charles-M-Schulz/Peanuts/9781481468053
http://clipart-library.com/kindness-cliparts.html
https://www.saba.com/blog The Science of Praise: A Manager’s Guide To Giving Effective Employee Praise
The list goes on and on, but you get the idea. In fact, living out your gratitude does just about everything from making you look better and more inclined to exercise to washing your underwear (well, almost that).
Gratitude helps us realize what we have, and awareness of what we're grateful may reduce the tendency to want more all the time. Notice your everyday world from the viewpoint of gratitude. It’s astounding the good things we take for granted, and the not-so-good things we focus on. So be thankful on Thanksgiving for all the wonderful things in this world, and even some of the not-so-wonderful. Be grateful every day you live and in the way you live, and things will be better than ever.
□
HAPPY TURKEY DAY!
Sources:
https://thepeacefulyogini.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/gift-it-forward-pay-it-forward-this-holiday-season/
https://www.unstuck.com/gratitude/
https://www.happierhuman.com/benefits-of-gratitude/
https://gratefulness.org/resource/what-is-gratitude/
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a45386/gratitude-lists-dont-work/
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_parents_neglect_to_teach_about_gratitude
ww.google.com/search?q=difference+between+thankful+and+grateful&oq=Difference+between+thankful+&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.11044j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8Z
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/difference-thankful-grateful
https://culturedindividuals.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/materialism-agree-disagree-or-what/
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Charlie-Brown-Thanksgiving/Charles-M-Schulz/Peanuts/9781481468053
http://clipart-library.com/kindness-cliparts.html
https://www.saba.com/blog The Science of Praise: A Manager’s Guide To Giving Effective Employee Praise
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