Gratitude Can Change Your Life

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Trish Lozano

Mar 18, 2021

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, and family.

Grace

The word gratitude is derived from the Latin word which means grace, graciousness, or gratefulness (depending on the context). In some ways, gratitude is wide in scope and encompasses all of these meanings. Gratitude is having a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives whether tangible or intangible.

Goodness

When we’re grateful, we acknowledge the goodness in our lives. In the process, we begin to recognize that the source of that goodness lies at least partially outside of ourselves. As a result, gratitude also helps people connect to something larger than themselves, whether to God, other people, or the simple things in life.

Let's Look at a Study

A study of nearly 300 adults was completed at a university. The participants were mostly college students who were seeking mental health counseling related to depression and anxiety.

The participants in the study were divided into three groups. All three groups received counseling services, but the first group was also instructed to write one letter of gratitude each week to another person for three weeks. The second group was asked to write about their deepest thoughts and feelings about negative experiences. The third group did not do any writing activity.

The participants in group one who wrote gratitude letters reported significantly better mental health for 4 weeks and 12 weeks after their writing exercise ended than the other two groups.

This suggests that gratitude writing can be beneficial not just for healthy, well-adjusted individuals, but also for those who struggle with mental health and emotional concerns.

This simple study suggests that gratitude is one way to possibly reduce anxiety as well as strengthen relationships and minimize stress. In fact, some researchers suggest that gratitude's effects may be long-lasting and especially positive.

The dictionary defines the word grateful as “showing an appreciation of kindness.” This is where the difference lies between being thankful and being grateful. Being thankful is a feeling, but being grateful is an action. But that's just it—they're just feelings and feelings fade. Gratitude is more than just the feeling of thankfulness, gratitude is expressed through the actions we take that are inspired by what we have rather than what we don't have.

Gratitude can change your life because it is the single most powerful source of inspiration that we can tap into if we will simply just stop and pay attention to the simplistic beauty and miracle of life.

The first way to show true thanksgiving to God is to always remember Him. Remembering Him means that He is a part of our thoughts, words, and deeds. It is impossible to give gratitude to God if we never think or speak of Him. When we remember Him, we are choosing to think, speak and act as He would have us do.

"Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you”

(1 Thessalonians 5:18).

Foster a grateful attitude and embrace the blessings in your life. The uplifting aroma of Gratitude™ invites a feeling of emotional and spiritual progress, so try diffusing Gratitude while you are writing your "gratitude letters" and/or during your prayer time when you are giving God thanks for all the things you are grateful for.

A research of the ingredients in this oil will show you that this little bottle could possibly support you in helping reduce stress and negative emotions, possibly improve memory, help with relaxation, mood, and anxiety, natural energizer, and social enhancer (to feel more connected with those around you), and could relieve depression.

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