According to an article in Psychology Today, the benefits of being grateful are many. Being grateful has been known to help with things like opening the door to more relationships, better mental and physical health, enhancing empathy, reducing aggression, improving sleep, and reducing stress.
If you have a hectic lifestyle, you may feel that you don’t have time to think about gratitude. However, having a gratitude journal, a pen and about 5 minutes each day, can put you in touch with the things that are going well even when at first glance, it looks like they’re not.
A gratitude journal helps us focus on what we have instead of what we lack. That alone can be a much needed improvement toward getting us on the road to positive thinking.
Here are five quick prompts or exercises you can do in the morning before you start your day, or at night before you hit the hay. (I really didn’t mean for that to rhyme!).
If you’re feeling a little down or negative, a journal may be just what you need to start feeling better.
When you implement these five exercises, they will become second nature and help you quickly shift the focus from adversity and things that may not be going so well, to the things that make you happy and joyous.Â
It’s been proven that gratitude helps people in the following ways:
- feel more positive emotions
- appreciate good experiences
- improve their health
- deal with adversity
- build strong relationships
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