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Jade Small
Jade Small
December 14, 2023 ·  2 min read

Unlock The Power Of Gratitude

Gratitude. Just by simply practicing this each day, we can completely transform our lives. Taking a little bit of time each day to be thankful for the things we often take for granted can help you feel more positive; it can help you sleep better and even helps to up your immune system. Being grateful can help you be more kind and show more compassion. Gratitude can help you feel better and be a better person for those who are around you.[1] Here are some inspiring quotes to help you gratuitously kickstart your positive mind shift. Who knows, gratitude might even help to change your brain.

What are you grateful for today?

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Studies show that gratitude can change your brain

So, if you were able to change your mindset just by practicing something as simple as being grateful, would you do it? According to this study, this little change in your daily life can actually change your brain and how it processes information. Besides some other testing, in the participants who took part, an fMRI scanner was used to measure their brain’s activity. Then, participants were asked to take part in a “pay it forward” task and write letters to express their gratitude. What they found was remarkable![2]

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We found that across the participants when people felt more grateful, their brain activity was distinct from brain activity related to guilt and the desire to help a cause. More specifically, we found that when people who are generally more grateful gave more money to a cause, they showed greater neural sensitivity in the medial prefrontal cortex, a brain area associated with learning and decision making. This suggests that people who are more grateful are also more attentive to how they express gratitude.

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Most interestingly, when we compared those who wrote the gratitude letters with those who didn’t, the gratitude letter writers showed greater activation in the medial prefrontal cortex when they experienced gratitude in the fMRI scanner. This is striking as this effect was found three months after the letter writing began. This indicates that simply expressing gratitude may have lasting effects on the brain. While not conclusive, this finding suggests that practicing gratitude may help train the brain to be more sensitive to the experience of gratitude down the line, and this could contribute to improved mental health over time

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It may not be much, but we hope these helped. Try expressing a a little gratitude daily, I know I will.

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Sources

  1. The Science Behind Gratitude (and How It Can Change Your Life)Happify. Derrick Carpenter, MAPP.
  2. Does gratitude writing improve the mental health of psychotherapy clients? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.” Tandfonline. Y. Joel Wong, et al. May 3, 2016.