Studies confirmed that gratitude actually alters your brain in a number of beneficial ways. With that, simply by being grateful will help our overall wellness. It helps:
1. Improve physical health by having a general pain-lowering effect, lowering inflammation and blood sugar, improving immune function, blood pressure and heart health and encouraging general self-care
2. Increase happiness and life satisfaction by lowering stress and emotional distress
3. Improve emotional resiliency, which also helps combat stress and anxiety
4. Improve mental health by triggering the release of antidepressant and mood-regulating chemicals such as serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine and oxytocin, while inhibiting the stress hormone cortisol
5. Improve sleep which can have far-reaching benefits for physical and mental health
Research has also demonstrated that gratitude is the single best predictor of good relationships. Long before modern scientists confirmed these benefits, the philosophers of old espoused GRATITUDE as the way to sanity, good health and life satisfaction.
Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, an expert in brain and mind health noted that "If thankfulness were a drug, it would be the world's best-selling product with a health maintenance indication for every major organ system”.
Start each day with a grateful heart, simply thankful for being alive… Start now, make lifestyle your medicine!
dr. Sarah @ TheHouse
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