{"id":6948,"date":"2016-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/mind-body-4-ways-feeling-grateful-can-improve-your-life\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T00:00:00","slug":"mind-body-4-ways-feeling-grateful-can-improve-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/mind-body-4-ways-feeling-grateful-can-improve-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways Feeling Grateful Can Improve Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fill your marriage with gratitude: It's been shown to boost commitment.<\/p>\n
Showing appreciation, counting your blessings—whatever you call it, gratitude is a key component of physical and emotional well-being. In fact, feeling thankful translated to better mood, higher sleep quality, and reduced inflammation in heart-failure patients, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. And day-to-day perks like these make the habit all the more worth it.<\/p>\n
Try jotting down those "Hooray!" moments as you go through your day. A study from gratitude expert Robert Emmons, PhD, showed that people who kept weekly gratitude journals were more optimistic and happier overall than folks who recorded hassles or uneventful happenings.<\/p>\n
When college students who were mentoring high schoolers received a handwritten thank-you note from their mentee, they rated the mentee as having a warmer personality, found a 2015 study in Emotion<\/em>. And they were more apt to give the high schooler their contact information.<\/p>\n Undergrad students who expressed gratitude—by thanking others, for example—tended to have higher self-esteem and, in turn, appeared less vulnerable to depression or hopelessness, according to 2015 research published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology<\/em>.<\/p>\n In a study published in Psychological Science<\/em>, participants who were asked to recall a time they felt grateful, then choose between getting a smaller monetary reward soon or a bigger one later, were more willing to wait for the bigger payout than those who didn't think thankful thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fill your marriage with gratitude: It's been shown to boost commitment. Showing appreciation, counting your blessings—whatever you call it, gratitude is a key component of physical and emotional well-being. In fact, feeling thankful translated to better mood, higher sleep quality, and reduced inflammation in heart-failure patients, according to a new study published by the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} It makes you resilient <\/h3>\n
It bolsters your patience <\/h3>\n