Practicing gratitude lets you feel more positive and cherish positive experiences more, thus leading to a more consistent feeling of greater joy.
Gives Happiness
Practicing appreciation and gratitude has been found to increase levels of immunoglobulin A, thus leading to better immunity against diseases.
Boosts Immunity
By practicing gratitude, you become more appreciative of what you have; your health, your abilities, and hence take efforts to maintain them.
Improves Self-Care
Grateful people are found to be able to fall asleep faster, sleep longer and have better sleep quality.
Better Sleep
Gratitude and other positive emotions have analgesic effects. Gratefulness stimulates the release of dopamine. Due to this, you feel lesser pains and aches.
Reduces Pain
When you are grateful for the good things in life, it means you focus on the brighter side, and this gives you positivity and hope.
Builds Positivity
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When you are appreciative of the good things in life, you can put optimistic thoughts in place of pessimistic ones. This helps you get through tough times and bounce back from failures.
Increases Resilience
Those who feel grateful for what they have, tend to help others. They have a greater understanding of struggles of the underprivileged, and believe in giving back.
Builds a Helping Nature
Increases Empathy
Gratitude leads to a better understanding of others and helps increase sensitivity and empathy.
Gratitude lets you feel happier and get a relaxed state of mind. Positive emotions like hope, empathy and compassion are linked with gratefulness, and they reduce stress.
Lowers Stress
Reduces Aggression
Practicing gratitude leads to a more compassionate behavior which reduces aggression.
Gratitude leads to reduced aggression, less anger, and low stress levels, which helps normalize your blood pressure.
Reduces Blood Pressure
Gratefulness lets you appreciate every little good in and around you. It makes you feel good about yourself and thus improves self-esteem.
Improves Self-esteem
When you are happy with what you have, you don't tend to compare yourself or your life with others. As you compare less, you feel more content and that reduces feelings of jealousy.
Reduces Jealousy
Practicing gratitude helps build compassion. You tend to show mercy rather than vengeance. You tend to forgive rather than holding grudges, for you know that staying angry robs you of happiness.
Makes You Forgiving
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Gratitude lets you see the good in people around you, which helps you make new friends and maintain relations with them.
Helps Make Friends
Appreciating the little good things about your spouse, reduces naggy behavior and helps build a healthier marriage.
Improves Marital Life
Increases Productivity
Practicing gratitude helps you get rid of fear and lethargy. So you can think with greater focus and get more involved in your work, which makes you more creative and productive.
Improves Leadership
Practicing gratitude makes you appreciate others. As leaders or managers, you tend to praise good work and encourage the team members. This helps boost the team's performance.
Feeling good about yourself and being able to focus on the positives, leads to better decision-making. Gratitude makes you calm, and develops a mental state conducive to taking the right decisions.
Improves Decision-making
Practicing gratitude helps in establishing and maintaining relations which can help you network better, thus helping you in your career.
Better Networking
Increases Energy Levels
Gratitude makes you feel better about yourself, uplifts you spirit, gives you confidence and rids you of negative emotions, thus increasing your energy levels.
When you feel grateful for simple pleasures, you understand that real happiness is not found in materialistic things.
Decreases Materialism
Reduced materialism and enhanced positivity paves way for spiritualism. You develop a better understanding of life and become more accepting.
Increases Spiritualism
Rather than brooding over losses of the past or thinking about future gains, you appreciate what you have right now. This makes you live in the present, and increases mindfulness.
Makes You Mindful
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So, increase your gratitude quotient for a happier and healthier you.