GIFTS is an acronym for the 5 wisdom practices described in this guidebook to living a completely abundant life: GRATITUDE, INTENTIONS, FORGIVENESS, TITHING AND SURRENDER.
Studies have shown that practicing gratitude can lead to deeper relationships, an improved sense of optimism, better physical and mental health, and increased happiness. Each of these results is a hallmark of abundance.
Gratitude helps us to overcome difficult times more quickly and easily. When you take time to appreciate all the ways in which life is being kind to you, you attract more positive experiences, joy and abundance. Practicing an attitude of gratitude leads to better health.
According to Dr Robert Emmons, a leading researcher on the topic, there are three stages of gratitude: 1) Recognizing what we are grateful for, 2) Acknowledging it, and lastly, 3) Appreciating it. In other words, appreciation is the final component and the last stage in the gratitude process.
Gratitude is one of many positive emotions. It's about focusing on what's good in our lives and being thankful for the things we have. Gratitude is pausing to notice and appreciate the things that we often take for granted, like having a place to live, food, clean water, friends, family, even computer access.
Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships. People feel and express gratitude in multiple ways.
Gratitude is a way of BEING.
It has the power to heal, create, manifest, love, and attract. It has the power to change your perspective, open your heart, envision new solutions, change how you are in relationships, or simply to re-energize and lift your mood.
Gratitude vibrates at 540 MHz. Being grateful falls on the same level as love — it is one of the highest vibrational frequencies you can be at. The more time you can spend in gratitude and love, the more your body's frequency raises and the healthier your body becomes.
Not only can gratitude can increase your financial wealth, it increases your well-being spiritually, mentally, socially, and physically. THIS makes for a truly rich life!
One of the simplest ways to practice appreciation is to use your five senses. Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch and Sight.
Regret is Stronger Than Gratitude.
Gratitude and neurotransmitters
When we express gratitude and receive the same, our brain releases dopamine and serotonin, the two crucial neurotransmitters responsible for our emotions, and they make us feel 'good'. They enhance our mood immediately, making us feel happy from the inside.
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Gratitude vibrates at the frequency of 540 MHz, the same as love. The more thankful you are for yourself and your life, the happier and more peaceful you will become.
First – Feeling grateful for the good things in your life; Second – Expressing your gratitude to the people who have made your life better; and Third – Adopting new behaviors as a result of interacting with those who have helped you.
What they found was "that gratitude causes synchronized activation in multiple brain regions, and lights up parts of the brain's reward pathways and the hypothalamus. In short, gratitude can boost neurotransmitter serotonin and activate the brain stem to produce dopamine." Dopamine is our brain's pleasure chemical.
An “attitude of gratitude” has long been associated with positive psychological outcomes: higher overall levels of happiness, greater emotional well-being, and increased satisfaction with life. Conversely, routinely giving thanks has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression [1].
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continuing for a very long time: eternal, everlasting, undyingThese men deserve the nation's undying gratitude.
An attitude of gratitude means making the conscious habit of expressing appreciation on a regular basis for big and small things alike. We may be grateful for our relationships, health, business, material items, food in our cupboards, running water in our homes, and our overall sense of well-being.
These six pillars are: relatedness, sincerity, empathy, self-regard, integrity, and humility. To be able to move from the sense of gratitude as an emotion to gratitude as an action – or deep gratitude – requires a commitment to putting priority on the relationships in our lives.