The Science Of Gratitude (101)

So gratitude.

A small investment with big returns.

Every single time you.

Feel appreciation for something,

No matter how big or small it is.

When that appreciation happens,

Dr.

Joe Dispenza talks about 1,

200 different people.

Neurochemicals.

Coming together.

As a result of that,

Your body goes into a healing mode.

So in the moment we are grateful for something,

Our bodies go into healing.

Which is quite incredible.

So gratitude is not about pretending life is okay.

Sometimes we can get confused.

We can hear gratitude practices and then feel that we might need to pressure ourselves to ignore the adversity or the pain or the grief or the exhaustion of what's going on,

Right?

But actually gratitude can exist alongside going through difficulties.

We can acknowledge what we're going through.

We can acknowledge our struggle,

Our suffering,

Whilst still noticing little glimmers.

And these are.

I mean it,

The little glimmers.

A moment with you all.

Pet cat or a conversation with the neighbor that doesn't have that many connections.

There's so many little micro moments available to us.

That we forget about and.

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It's not about.

Pushing away.

What's going on in terms of the struggle that we're going through,

But it's about opening up to it all and just reaching for the little glimmers,

The little glimmers.

So.

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I hope that helps.

It means that gratitude doesn't.

Erase the difficulty,

Right?

But it can widen our awareness so we can.

Mike.

For all our experiences inside the skin.

Thoughts,

Feelings,

Sensations and urges and to connect in a way Weh.

We experience meaningful connection.

It's meaningful.

And our bodies go into that healing.

That healing mode as a result of that.

There's A study suggest.

That if we are to think about things that we're grateful for.

Doing it for a minimum of 20 seconds.

Actually.

Thickens.

The learning templates in our brain,

The neural templates in our brain for gratitude,

It thickens them significantly more if it's 20 seconds or more.

So that's really interesting.

Tip there to leave you with.

Anyway,

I hope you can.

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Have a gratitude practice,

Even if it's just for one or two minutes.

Is a lot of fun.

Science to show that something as simple as one or two minutes.

Like I said at the very start,

A small investment with big returns.