Neuroscientist Glenn Fox has dedicated his life to studying gratitude — how it improves our resilience, lowers stress, and boosts overall health. He’s an expert on the ability of gratitude to help us through tough times.
Neuroscience Reveals: This Is How Gratitude Literally Rewires Your Brain to Be Happier
We often hear about the power of gratitude for creating a more positive and happy mental state. But did you know that gratitude literally transforms your brain?
Los 12 mejores consejos para fortalecer su sentido de gratitud
Hacer una lista de las cosas por las que está agradecido es bueno para su salud. Cada vez son más los estudios que han llegado a esa conclusión, los cuales demuestran una amplia gama de beneficios físicos.
Still not happy? Why embracing painful emotions is the first step to a happier life
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be,” wrote Abraham Lincoln.
Let’s face it, if happiness was as achievable as simply deciding to be happy, there’d be a whole lot more happy people. Yet not only is happiness not something we can “just choose,” when we put pressure on ourselves to feel happy, it can inadvertently set us on a war path with ourselves. Which is why adopting a mindset that embraces the “not so happy” emotions we can rise up within us is essential to living a happier life.
What Changes When a School Embraces Mindfulness?
It was lunch time at Marysville School in Southeast Portland when the fire broke out. Teachers quickly herded their students out of the building to the sports field behind the school as the old colonial-style building burned. The fire that traumatized students and staff alike was in 2009, when Lana Penley was in her second year as principal. The 460 students and 50 staff members of the K-8 school relocated to a vacant school building in another part of Portland, displaced from their school site for three years as the district rebuilt the Marysville building.
The Importance of Meditation at Work
Wellness expert and author Quentin Vennie stopped by Black Enterprise to teach us how to meditate and explain why we need to
Accepting your darkest emotions is the key to psychological health
Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi poet, famously compared emotions—”a joy, a depression, a meanness”—to “unexpected visitors.” His advice was to let them in laughing, but that’s not what we do. Instead, we pretend not to notice, or even hide. We want to bury resentment and anger, or trade loneliness in for the more fashionable gratitude.
6 Health Benefits Of Gratitude On Your Mind And Body
Muchos amigos no pueden creer este tipo de afirmaciones sobre los efectos positivos de ciertos estados en nuestra existencia física, mental, emocional… pero es fácil por lo menos darse cuenta de los efectos negativos por ejemplo del opuesto a la gratitud … podemos ver lo destructivo de ciertos estados fijos, crónicos tal como se da en la queja, la victimes, la insatisfacción lleno de demandas a otros creyendo que merecen más que otros, todo tipo de atenciones… la continua frustración que ocurre cuando hay expectativas muy infladas basadas en los deseos innecesarios y en la creencias de dependencia… la idea de carencia de “falta”, de carencia de “poques”, hasta la creencia se injusticia con el sufrir crónico del odio impotente, amargura, negatividad… es fácil entender lo que produce en nuestro sistema físico cerebral este tipo de actitudes y estados si son crónicos y fijos… pues la gratitud es el estado que marca la trascendencia entre el polo de la insatisfacción crónica y el polo de la “aceptación y sometimiento ” a las circunstancias o sea, un tipo de pasividad mórbida … en fin el punto es “como llegar a existir con este estado de percepción ” el know how ya que sin esto, puede que fallemos y lleguemos a creer que de esto también carece nuestra vida ….
This is how to be happier, according to brain science
There’s enough advice on happiness floating around out there to make your head spin. Yet, this is understandable, as everyone is different. What makes one person happy might make another miserable.
