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The benefits of having more gratitude also correlated with benefits to the heart among patients who had experienced heart failure. Being grateful can even get you a better night’s sleep.
In addition to the many psychological benefits, demonstrating gratitude has been linked to physical health, too, including: better quality of sleep, more exercise, and fewer symptoms of physical ...
Practicing gratitude can improve mental and physical health, reduce stress and more. But what is gratitude exactly? A therapist breaks it down.
A study on the benefits of mental health counseling [55] divided approximately 300 college students into three groups prior to their first counseling session. The first group was instructed to write one letter of gratitude a week for three weeks, the second group was asked to write about their negative experiences, and the third group received ...
Keeping a gratitude journal is a popular practice in the field of positive psychology. It is also referred to as “counting one's blessings” [1] or “three good things”. [2] Empirical findings on the benefits of gratitude journals have shown significant impact on psychological and physical well-being.
The interventions were writing a gratitude letter and writing a 14-day diary. In both interventions, the researchers found that gratitude and humility are connected and are "mutually reinforcing." [94] The study also discusses how gratitude, and its associated humility, may lead to more positive emotional states and subjective well-being.
The first publication, a press release from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, tells how researchers from the school found gratitude was associated with greater longevity among seniors.
[4] [3] Positive affectivity also promotes an open-minded attitude, sociability, and helpfulness. [1] Those having low levels of positive affectivity (and high levels of negative affectivity) are characterized by sadness, lethargy, distress, and un-pleasurable engagement (see negative affectivity). Low levels of positive affect are correlated ...