What is Gratitude?
Gratitude is a positive emotional state in which one recognizes and appreciates what one has received in life.
How Gratitude can help us?
Research shows that taking time to experience gratitude can make you happier and even healthier.
- Experiencing gratitude can increase your mood and lower your stress levels.
- It can even strengthen your immune system and lower your blood pressure.
- Experiencing gratitude also can make you feel a stronger social connection,
How to Practice Gratitude?
For the next seven days, you will take 5-10 minutes each night to write down five things for which you are grateful. They can be little things or big things.
But you really have to focus on them and actually write them down (Again, try to develop a tracking method works for you and utilize a note on your phone, a daily calendar, a special notebook, etc).
You can just write a word or short phrase, but as you write these things down, take a moment to be mindful of the things you’re writing about (e.g., imagine the person or thing you’re writing about, etc.). This exercise should take at least five minutes. Do this each night for the whole week.
be grateful for you parents
be grateful for electricity and all the workers
Further Reading
The power of gratitude : Robert Emmons
Gratitude is a way of life. not just a journal entry you do everyday.
The grateful person accepts all of life as a gift. good and bad, everything happens as a gift
this is different from journalling about all of the nice thing happening to you vs accept everything as a gift.
Grateful people have advantages when it comes to success in life.