GRATITUDE

Research has suggested that feelings of gratitude may be beneficial to subjective emotional well-being (Emmons & McCullough, 2003). For example, Watkins and colleagues (Watkins et al., 2003) had participants test a number of different gratitude exercises, such as thinking about a living person for whom they were grateful, writing about someone for whom they were grateful, and writing a letter to deliver to someone for whom they were grateful. Participants in the control condition were asked to describe their living room. Participant who engaged in a gratitude exercise showed increases in their experiences of positive emotion immediately after the exercise, and this effect was strongest for participants who were asked to think about a person for whom they were grateful. Participants who had grateful personalities to begin with showed the greatest benefit from these gratitude exercises. In people who are grateful in general, life events have little influence on experienced gratitude (McCullough, Tsang & Emmons, 2004).

Although gratitude is something that anyone can experience, some people seem to feel grateful more often than others. People who tend to experience gratitude more frequently than do others also tend to be happier, more helpful and forgiving, and less depressed than their less grateful counterparts (Kashdan, Uswatte, & Julian, 2006; McCullough, Emmons, & Tsang, 2002; Watkins, Woodward, Stone, & Kolts, 2003)

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[sylvascreen]

thank you :)



[djoy4ly]

Thank you for the wonderful uplifting visuals. I am grateful for your posting. Namaste!

[shereese1000]

Shereese is gratful for her existance for which she is internally gratful to omni

[1PHILLWHITE]

My intention of Apreciation Love and Peace goes out to you and your experience :)

[longded]

ok so what would you do about rats ?

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[lifeisgood1221]

I am grateful for your video ...

I have never done well clearing my mind of cluttered thoughts and focusing directly on all that is GOOD in my life. Your video did just that for me! I felt the love of the Universe as I watched it!

THANK YOU ...

[apratter1]

Thank you , Thank you, Thank you so much for making and posting this amazing video. I watch it everyday 2-3x to stay in a state of gratitude. Would love to see more like these about abundance, love, health!

[pazcecipaz]

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