HOW GRATITUDE CAN HELP YOU DEVELOP WORLD CLASS MENTAL RESILIENCE
"THE QUALITY OF BEING THANKFUL AND A READINESS TO SHOW APPRECIATION FOR AND TO RETURN KINDNESS"
Everyone has had times when they’ve felt thankful and shown gratitude for a person, situation, or material thing in their life. These moments of thinking positively and being grateful, give us a GOOD FEELING.
Gratitude or appreciation for the good things that happen to us, the good people we have around us or the things we have in our lives is an essential part of building happiness.
WHY IS GRATITUDE SO EFFECTIVE IN MENTAL RESILIENCE?
Gratitude matters. A grateful heart is a contented heart. Gratitude opens the door to simplicity and happiness.
A person who is grateful for the things they own will care for them, enjoy them, and waste less energy seeking more. They will experience contentment in the gifts they already possess rather than looking outside themselves for more.
Gratitude is more than just feeling good. It helps people become less aggressive by enhancing their empathy. Gratitude puts situations into perspective. When we can see the good as well as the bad, it becomes more difficult to complain and stay stuck.
This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before
DOES GRATITUDE TECHNIQUE REALLY WORK?
There is solid evidence that practising gratitude provides many benefits.
ONE example, out of many of published research studies, by the American Psychological Association, lead author Paul J. Mills, PhD stated that recognising and giving thanks for the good things in life can result in better health.
Paul J. Mills is a Professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California.
Some of the reported health effects included:
- LESS DEPRESSION
- HIGHER QUALITY SLEEP
- LESS FATIGUE
- MORE SELF-EFFICACY
- LESS INFLAMMATION
STUDIES PROVE THAT USING GRATITUDE WORKS & LEADS TO...
- People who regularly practise gratitude experience more positive emotions and feel more alive.
- Grateful people experience more contentment.
- LESS FATIGUE
- They often sleep better.
- They express more compassion and kindness.
- They have enhanced empathy and reduced aggression.
- They can put situations into perspective more easily.
- They tend to have stronger immune systems.
- They experience the ‘emotion of friendship’.
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
START USING GRATITUDE TO BUILD FEELINGS OF
HAPPINESS AND POSITIVITY
Feeling grateful is a skill we can develop with practice.
To build positive momentum towards a more happy and fulfilling life, try these simple things:
Keep a daily journal of three things you are thankful for. This works well first thing in the morning, or just before you go to bed.
Make it a practice to tell a spouse, partner or friend something you appreciate about them every day.
Look in the mirror when you are brushing your teeth, and think about something you have done well recently or something you like about yourself.
Even using these 3 simple steps and sticking to them every day, will start to make you feel more positive and more thankful for what you already have in life.
For more on Gratitude be sure to grab a copy of John’s books; ‘Off The Wall’ and ‘100 Days to Mental Resilience’ both of which cover this technique in more depth.
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Author and International speaker John Dabrowski, The Mental Resilience Expert, has spent over 40 years in the business world, putting him in a unique position to deal with contemporary business challenges.
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John has played basketball both as a professional and for England in the Commonwealth Games and once scored an unprecedented 98 points in one match and this remains the current British record to his day. He was a top performing premier league basketball club manager for the Manchester Giants. He then went on to become a high achieving radio sales manager and a multi award winning agency director in the advertising and marketing world.
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