Want to feel better about yourself and everything around you? Then practice giving gratiude on a daily basis. It only takes a minute to express your gratitude for something or someone in your life. You can also incorporate your feelings of gratitude into a gratitude journal.
How can gratitude help you emotionally? It can actally improve our emotional and physical well-being according to Psychologists Robert Emmons of U.C. Davis and Michael McCullough of the University of Miami. Their ongoing Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness has found that people who keep weekly gratitude journals had fewer physical symptoms, exercised more, had a better outlook on life and were more likely to reach their goals.
People with neuromuscular disease who practiced daily gratitude "had more high-energy positive moods, felt more connected to others, and felt more positive about life in comparison to a control group.”
When you slow down long enough to notice the details around you, you will be awed by the beauty and abundance in the world. This is a good time to express your thankfulness for all that you have and all that you are going to create in your life.
Keeping a Gratitude Journal is nothing more than writing down a few things each day that you are grateful for, yet this practice holds magical powers....you will begin to look for things throughout your day to write down....once you get going, Gratitude will over flow from your journal because there are so many things to be grateful for. Therein lies the magic of expressing GRATITUDE in your journal.
Gratitude connects you to a state of appreciation that spills over into everything you do and experience. It inspires you to view your life through a state of grace.
What are you grateful for today?
