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What is Gratitude?
- Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives, either tangible or intangible.
- Thanksgiving and the holiday season is a time where we all think about what we are grateful for.
- Being grateful every day, not just the holiday season has many health benefits both physical and mental.
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Health Benefits
- Gratitude can help improve your sleep, reduce stress and enhance the sense of well-being.
- It can also improve your heart health.
- Studies have shown that gratitude has an effect on your mood transmitters, inflammatory and immune systems, reproductive hormones, stress hormones, social bonding hormones, blood pressure, cardiac and EEG rhythms, cognitive and pleasure related neurotransmitters and blood sugar.
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Practice Gratitude
- Cultivate an attitude of gratitude every day.
- Start and end your day with something that you are grateful for.
- Find pleasure in the small things in life.
- Focus in what is good right now in the present moment.
- Keep a gratitude journal.
- Re-frame a situation by looking at it with a more positive attitude.
- Talk to yourself in an optimistic and appreciative manner.
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