You"You'd better be grateful!” – How many times have you heard something like thatthat?
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When you’re told to be grateful for what other people do for you or for the privileges you might gethave over others, it can often make you feel more pressured than grateful. It can make you feel likeas if you owe them something, or feel guilty for no real fault of yoursyour own. Gratitude can never be forced upon someone. itIt comes from within.
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But what if you did not have to be grateful as an obligation to someone else. Andand you sincerely felt a sense of gratitude from deep within, towards the universe, for giving you everything that you has. Likehave, such as the gift of sight, or food to eat, or a home to live in, or people to care for, or the mere gift of life as a human, wehuman? We all have a long list of things to be grateful for, not by force, but by choice.
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“Does choosing to be grateful make
a difference in my life?” Yes
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There is a whole lot of neuroscience behind the feeling of gratitude. According to this science, Gratitudegratitude can significantly improve general well- being, increase resilience, strengthen social relationships, reduce stress and depression, and increase overall life satisfaction. If you’re grateful, you’ll tend to have a much greater capacity for joy and positive emotions. This is because the feeling of gratitude makemakes your brain releasesrelease the feel goodfeel-good hormones, called dopamine and serotonin.
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LikeAs the American author, Zig Ziglar, said –, “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”
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