Take a walk around your home and notice objects that have happy memories for you. Photos of happy times are an easy starting point. Pick one special possession and allow happy recollections associated with it to wash over you. Remember where it came from and...
Feeling and expressing gratitude can make you happy in the moment—and growing evidence shows that giving thanks can also have a lasting effect on your mood. One study from the University of Pennsylvania found that people who wrote and delivered a...
Today start looking for pearls of wisdom. It can be hard coming up with all of the answers yourself. Sometimes you feel stuck or just bored. Maybe you need inspiration from learning something new. Maybe it’s from a You Tube clip, on online tutorial or a...
People who regularly practice gratitude are less likely to procrastinate and more likely to remain focused on priorities, as well as find creative solutions to problems. For more interesting information, check out this article.
We’re more than halfway through Grateful in April – are you getting good at being grateful? Practice makes perfect, so here’s a couple of tips to get a little gratitude in every day. Take a moment to create a ritual or a regular time where you consciously...
Just as you may be more likely to exercise if you have an exercise partner or participate in a class, you may be able to maintain the discipline of gratitude more easily if you have a partner with whom to share gratitude lists and to discuss the effects of gratitude...
More than ever, it seems that there is a never-ending stream of bad news coming from our news outlets. This is a very tough ask with everything that’s going on in the world currently, but have you ever wondered what would happen if you stopped tuning into...
A great deal of research has shown that gratitude helps us to initiate, maintain, and strengthen our relationships. Gratitude may make our romantic relationships closer and more satisfying, encourage us to feel more invested in friendships, and even cause us to be...
For many of us, if we are hungry, we go to the fridge or cupboard for food. If there is nothing there, we have been able to head to a corner store, supermarket or cafe. Millions of people around the world don’t have that option, either through lack of access to food,...
In an experimental comparison, those who kept gratitude journals on a weekly basis exercised more regularly, reported fewer physical symptoms, felt better about their lives as a whole, and were more optimistic about the upcoming week compared to those who recorded...