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Love, Kindness, Gratitude, Forgiveness
Positive feelings flood your body with immune-boosting endorphins |
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Love, Kindness, Gratitude, Forgiveness
For a better life, daily, as much as you can, practive feeling grateful.
- We were taught from an early age to say "Thank you." Now researchers are finding that it can improve our health mentally and physically.
- Negative thoughts and feelings create an interruption in our systems. Gratitude triggers oxytocin, a bonding hormone. As a result, the nervous system relaxes. Feelings of gratitude are associated with more harmonious electric activity around the heart and brain.
- Positive emotions offer a sense of comfort. We feel happier, relaxed, and more content when we express appreciation to others or to ourselves.
- Studies indicate that our feelings contribute to the body's healing system and general health. Holding feelings of thankfulness for 20 seconds causes beneficial physiological changes to take place in our bodies. The stress hormone levels of cortisol and norepinephrine decrease, producing a cascade of beneficial metabolic changes. Our coronary arteries relax, and our breathing becomes deeper, raising the oxygen level of our tissues.
- Characteristics of grateful people: exercise regularly, are more optimistic, have higher evels of alertness, are enthusiastic, have less depression, less stress, and are more likely to help others.
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"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an
emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free."
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