Elevate Your Wellness with  Benefits of Gratitude

 

The benefits of gratitude are well documented, but not widely known, nor practiced.  Learning to feel more gratitude and appreciation for what you have in life is not only good for your mental health.  Furthermore,  it can also improve your physical health and overall wellness, too. You may not think that how and what you believe can influence your physical well-being.  Without a doubt,  your mindset has a tremendous effect on your overall fitness and health.  Moreover, learning to think more positively and gratefully about your life can improve all these things.

Easter is a great time for exploring gratitude.  We celebrate Jesus’ resurrection and can be motivated to renew our personal practices. It is also a time to give thanks for all of the blessings we enjoy in His name.  Hopefully our articles on gratitude will give you motivation and base upon which to build your own personal renewal.

 

 

Benefits of Gratitude for Your Health

 

When you focus your mind and thoughts on what you appreciate, this increases your sense of relaxation and well-being. When you think about the positive things in your life, good physiological results occur.   Your heart literally slows down, your body releases fewer stress hormones and more “feel good” hormones and neurotransmitters.  You feel better in every cell in your body. Feeling more negative emotions, like insecurity, frustration, or sadness, can lead to negative physiological impacts to your body.  These may include increases in brain and hormone activity that elevate blood pressure and heart rate.  They may reduce cognitive function, and impair your immune system.

 

Thinking more positively and about your gratitude can result in more positive health outcomes, including helping you to sleep better, lowering levels of inflammation, improving heart function, and helping you maintain other healthy habits, such as proper eating and exercising more.

 

Gratitude can even help when things are not going as planned. When you face stress, health problems, or other difficulties, having a positive attitude focused on appreciation can help you remain optimistic about the possibilities for overcoming your struggles. Even those who face severe health problems, like cancer, experience better outcomes when they remain positive and focus on their gratitude.

 

 

Spiritual Benefits of Gratitude

 

Practicing gratitude is a powerful tool for spiritual growth, offering numerous benefits to those who seek to nurture their connection with Jesus. It can be difficult to focus on the good in our lives when faced with challenging circumstances, but choosing to practice gratitude can open up a world of joy and peace.

Gratitude encourages us to look past our current situation and instead express thankfulness for what we have. This opens us up to new possibilities.  Thus allowing us to acknowledge beauty that otherwise would have gone unnoticed. It also helps us develop humility and kindness towards one another by recognizing our dependence on each other and the divine power behind all of creation.

In addition, developing an attitude of thankfulness can help strengthen our relationship with Jesus as it requires an openness of heart which allows grace and mercy into our lives.

 

 

Practicing Positive Health

 

When you engage in positive health practices, you combine the benefit and power of physical wellness with your thoughts and emotions and your lifestyle choices to make a more significant impact on your overall health and well-being. There is increasing evidence that mindset and attitude play a more significant role in overall health than we once believed, and embracing positive health practices is an excellent way to ensure that you remain healthy and active throughout your life.

 

 

Some of the ways that positive health can improve your wellness include:

 

• Being willing to put in more work and wait for more substantial outcomes later, including improved health markers.
• Having stronger relationships with other people,  which can increase your life span and help you feel more positive and hopeful.
• Making it more likely that you will engage in self-care behaviors like eating healthy, exercising, seeing a doctor regularly, and abstaining from drugs or alcohol.
• Sleeping better, which can improve your overall health dramatically.
• Avoiding snacking, binging, and overeating behaviors, which are all associated with negative emotions and unhealthy stress coping actions.
• Finding productive and healthy ways to manage depression and anxiety.

 

Adopting an attitude of gratitude means that you appreciate your body and what it needs.   Hence you are more likely to do what you need to take care of yourself. Gratitude is a more sustainable form of happiness than other types of gratification which often have unhealthy consequences.  Examples can such acts as eating a sugary treat or drinking alcohol. When you have a positive frame of mind, your happiness lasts longer.   Your happiness is less likely to be disrupted by setbacks and obstacles.

 

 

Benefits of Gratitude : Final Thoughts

 

The benefits of gratitude upon your physical and mental health can be significant.  Taking time to express your thankfulness and gratitude regularly can be beneficial.  It can not only improve your mental health but also have significant positive consequences for your overall wellness.  This including your physical as well as mential and emotional well-being. When you focus on the positives in your life and what you have, you will see that your thoughts turn into actions.  This will translate into more positive outcomes over time.

 

 

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