It's interesting what happens to the brain when you practice gratitude. Dopamine is released into two areas of the brain, which controls our movement and speech, and our sense of reward. So when a person expresses gratitude, the dopamine creates a connection between the behaviour, and feeling good. Therefore the more a person practices the gratitude, the more often that dopamine releases.
The power of gratitude is not some passing fad, or latest trend. There are genuine benefits to practicing gratitude every day. Particularly when you’re able to be grateful for a challenging situation.
Many successful people have a daily gratitude practice.
For example, Arianna Huffington bases a lot of her success to practicing gratitude. Tony Robbins believes that being grateful first thing in the morning helps him have a more successful day, as well as staves off anger, or fear that leads to poor investing or life choices.
Oprah Winfrey says that appreciating whatever shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. That generates more goodness for yourself when you are aware of all that you have, rather than focusing on what you’re missing.
Gratitude doesn't have to be big, extravagant events. In fact, it’s best when you’re grateful for the simple things in life.
Here’s an overview of what we cover in the power of gratitude:
- What a gratitude practice is, and the benefits of practicing gratitude, including the scientific evidence: (5:05)
- Chemical reaction that occurs in you brain when you practice gratitude: (9:05)
- 7 areas of life and how you can implement these into your gratitude practice: (14:46)
- We explore into the different ways you can practice gratitude: (18:42)
- How to take your gratitude practice to the next level: (28:45)
- Some examples of really big challenges in our lives and how we used gratitude to get through them - Tamara gets really vulnerable: (29:26)
- AND so much more!
Episode Resources
- Kikki-K Gratitude Journals
- Dr John Demartini, 7 Areas of Life
- Joel Norton
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