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Walking On The Sunny Side of the Street

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Continued from our Retreat & Renew Daily Tip.

By Heather Vuchinich, Editor, Spaliciously

Enhance your gratitude attitude by incorporating these simple practices into your daily life.

1. Get enough sleep-

Recent research shows that a lack of sleep can influence how grateful you feel about your relationship and even have a negative impact on those who are single and looking for a partner. (Huffington post link here?)

2. Keep a list-

Whether it’s an ongoing journal or a “five a day” list, keeping track of what you are grateful for can be a powerful practice of recognition that helps keep you focused on what is already going well in your life. Re-reading old gratitude journals and lists can also help generate feelings of abundance, as you remember all the gifts you have received in the past.

3. Surround yourself with positivity-

With so much of the media focused on disaster and tragedy, it helps to keep a good news balance by surrounding yourself with positive people, media and other resources that remind you of the good things in life. Support yourself with affirmations and other mediums that help you return to a gratitude perspective. Free app’s like Gratitude Stream are a great way to stay grateful in the moment.

4. Conduct Gratitude Interventions-

Conducting “gratitude interventions” with such varied groups as college students and adults with neuromuscular disease, researchers Robert A. Emmons and Michael E. McCullough found that individuals practicing gratitude on a regular (daily or weekly) basis displayed a more positive general outlook, greater optimism, and less stress and depression. Other benefits found were higher levels of alertness, energy, enthusiasm, and determination as well as a greater likelihood of being generous, empathetic, and aware of one’s interconnectedness with others.

5, Practice your Daily Affirmations-

In the best-selling The Hidden Messages in Water (Atria, 2001), author Masaru Emoto demonstrated that water exposed to affirmations, words of gratitude, and prayer formed more beautiful crystals, as shown through his photographs. Emoto concluded that we can affect the structure of water in our own cells by repeating kind words, promoting health and peace. Mainstream scientists may cringe at Emoto’s research methods, but Richard Davidson, a neuroscience professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has proven that Buddhist monks who meditate on loving kindness and compassion emit more powerful brain waves and generate more activity in the part of the brain that is responsible for positive emotions. There is indeed a positive physical reaction to thinking good thoughts.

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