The Surprising Solution to Better Health: The Magic of Gratitude

 Did you know that gratitude can have a tremendous impact on your health?

A recent study, titled “The Role of Gratitude in Spiritual Well-Being in Asymptomatic Heart Failure Patients,” found that it plays an important part in overall wellbeing.

The study found that being thankful helped improve the health of heart disease patients.

This has wider implications, and researchers believe it can help anyone.

So, you don’t have to be a heart disease patient to benefit from showing gratitude to others. Anyone can be thankful and see improvements in their health.

The Surprising Solution to Better Health: The Magic of Gratitude

Try these strategies to use gratitude to benefit your health:

1. Understanding the heart of gratitude. Being thankful is an important part of staying healthy.

• Do you show your gratitude when it matters?

• Do the people in your life feel you appreciate them? Have you told them how much you enjoy the things they do?

• Being grateful may require a conscious effort. It’s important to start noticing your thought processes and how you react to various situations.

2. How to show gratitude to your loved ones. The people who are closest to you need to know you appreciate them.

• You can begin to show gratitude by thanking them for a specific action.

• You can also show your thoughtfulness by doing small things for them and making their lives easier.

• Sharing your time is important. Offer to do something your loved ones may enjoy. This will show you care and pay attention to their lives. It also shows you want to help.

• Everyone loves compliments, so give them out frequently with love.

3. How to show gratitude to your coworkers. They spend hours with you and need to know you appreciate them.

• Send thank you notes to your coworkers to show them you care.

• Show your gratitude by bringing them lunch or offering to buy it for them.

• Sometimes just listening to your coworkers can be a good way to show your gratitude.

• Bring flowers to work to brighten your coworkers’ day.

4. How to show gratitude for yourself. Recognize the great things that are happening in your life and be thankful for them each day.

• Sometimes making a simple list of all the positive and good things in your life can start you on the path to gratitude.

• Remember to give yourself compliments, too!

• Thinking about the positive things you have done for others can help you see how you impact the world.

5. How to show gratitude to strangers. You may not know their name or life story, but the strangers you meet throughout the day can also benefit from gratitude.

• Does the person who makes your coffee stand next to a tip jar? You can make a generous tip and help brighten their day. You can also point out something they have done well.

• You don’t have to know your servers’ names to be grateful. You can thank them, compliment them, and share something positive.

Gratitude is an important part of life, and showing it to others can help strengthen your health. 

It’s crucial to note the positive things occurring every day.

There are many ways to be thankful, so you can share the joy with others.

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Top 10 Ways to Cultivating Gratitude at Work!

 “Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.”— Alan Cohen

Top 10 Ways to Cultivating Gratitude at Work!

 

1.  Start at the top

This is one of the clearest takeaways from research into workplace gratitude: Employees need to hear “thank you” from the boss first. That’s because expressing gratitude can make some people feel unsafe, particularly in a workplace with a history of ingratitude. It’s up to the people with power to clearly, consistently, and authentically say “thank you” in both public and private settings

2.  Thank the people who never get thanked

Thanking those who do thankless work is crucial because it sets the bar and establishes the tone. Yes, faculty do the research and teaching core to a university’s mission, but without a cadre of staff behind them they’d have to raise money for their own salaries and empty their own wastebaskets. Public appreciation of, for example, administration and physical plant staff makes their contributions visible and thus broadens everyone’s understanding of how the organization functions—and needless to say, it improves morale and increases trust.

3.  Aim for quality, not quantity

Forcing people to be grateful doesn’t work. It feeds the power imbalances that undermine gratitude in the first place, and it can make expressions of gratitude feel inauthentic.

The key is to create times and spaces that foster the voluntary, spontaneous expression of gratitude. It’s also the case that studies consistently show that there is such a thing as too much gratitude—it seems trying to be grateful everyday induces gratitude fatigue.

4. Provide many opportunities for gratitude

When people are thanked for their work, they are more likely to increase their helping behavior and to provide help to others. But not everyone likes to be thanked—or likes to say “thank you”—in public. They may be shy or genuinely modest.

The key is to create many different kinds of opportunities for gratitude.

5. In the wake of crisis, take time for thanksgiving

Cultivating a culture of gratitude might be the best way to help a workplace prepare for stresses that come with change, conflict, and failure. Making gratitude a policy and a practice “builds up a sort of psychological immune system that can cushion us when we fall,” writes psychologist Robert Emmons. “There is scientific evidence that grateful people are more resilient to stress, whether minor everyday hassles or major personal upheavals.”

Gratitude helps employees to see beyond one disaster and recognize their gains. Ideally, it gives them a tool “to transform an obstacle into an opportunity,” as Emmons writes, and reframe a loss as a potential gain. If your office has gone through a crisis, hold a meeting with the aim of gaining a new perspective on the incident.

6. 5-minute focus

Set a timer for 5-minutes and challenge yourself to write a morning gratitude list that’s focused specifically on what you’re grateful for at work. Do this every day for a week, before you delve into your in box, or tackle your daily projects. Keep the list short, but specific. This is a great way to get out of the bad habit of chronic complaining mode and to jump start your day with enthusiasm rather than dread. If you’re writing on a post it note, stick it to your computer screen to remind you of what you’re thankful for throughout the day.

7. Keep a gratitude jar for the company

We do this at home with our kids, so why not bring it into the work place? Perhaps in a break room or a reception area you could create a receptacle with a nearby notepad and pen, where staff members can jot off some quick gratitudes and put them in the jar. You could read them annually at a holiday party or compile them quarterly, monthly or weekly and send out in company correspondence.

8. Random acts of appreciation

When you’re grateful for something a co-worker did, send a quick email of appreciation. This is a nice way to foster community and wellbeing.

9. Hand write thank you notes

If you want to go the extra mile, have an area in the company with a stack of nice stationary, envelopes and a pen. If you’re reluctant to get the whole company on board, just have these supplies ready at your own desk. Write one thank you note a week to a co-worker (or even your boss) for a month. Handwriting helps us retain more and promotes better memory recall, so it engraves the gratitude, in your own wellbeing, even more than if you’re typing. The recipient also has something tangible to savor, remember or even pin up by their desk.

10. Share your customer love notes

When you receive positive comments from customers, compile them and send them out on a regular basis to everyone in the company. It’s a great way to keep staff engaged with the mission and nice to hear thank you’s from customers. The staff in the accounting department might not ever get to hear how well things are going in customer service. Share the positive thank you’s that the company receives with everyone.

Top 8 Stories of How Gratitude Creates Healing in Life

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

 

1. Stick To The Secret Rule

“I always wanted to work as a cabin crew since I was a teenager. I have given many interviews but was frustrated as I was not getting through. Then I joined a hotel and worked at the front desk. I enjoyed my time there and was very grateful. Then I received an invitation for an airline interview and I got selected. I worked for 5 years, flew internationally, and met so many people. Just as I had wanted.

Ask, believe, forget about it, receive, and be grateful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”

2. 6 Inch Increase In My Height.

“So I was not tall, my height was just 5 feet, that’s it. Everybody around me used to tease me for my short height. I tried everything from hanging exercises to using the LOA but I failed. I did not know why I was unable to manifest my ideal height.

So one day I just let go of all the expectations related to my height. I just gave thanks to my body for proper functioning and everything. I kept a positive attitude. I diverted my mind from the idea of having an ideal height.

But today I can finally say that I am 5ft 6 inches tall! Like it just happened as soon as I let go of it! Believe me, my hands are shivering while writing this. I am so happy because I am 5 feet and 6 inches tall. I can wear everything I want.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I still can’t believe this has happened! Thank you so much for everything.

To those who are feeling low, believe me, just stay positive and love yourself and visualize, that’s it.”

3. Inside The Mind.

“I’m 23 now but I always believed I was strongly physic somehow. I don’t know how to explain it. I always had this voice in my head that told me to do things but nothing crazy! Just a positive voice. I always have it there to guide me. I always thought it was a loved one or a guardian angel of some kind but I came to understand that it wasn’t either, it was me! It was my own voice. I used to think of words in my head and then I could be around someone or watching TV and wow, the words would be said like magic. I could think of a word like love and it would be said on TV right after.

I believe in the Universe because I feel like it listens to my wishes. I always believed that to receive you have to do what’s in The Secret. I promise you it makes you feel like you are reborn again into a new person, the person you are supposed to be! Good luck!”

4. Happiness, Our True Nature.

“My story is simple. I am living my life from a place of happiness. I ask myself “Does this make me happy?” and use that as my guide to lead me to action. I am listening to my inner voice. I am asking for what I want and need, and I am open to trying new things. I trust that the Universe is guiding me. I see each day as a new beginning and I am excited as to what the day will bring. I allow the flow to guide me. My mantra is: “I am open, empty, and allowing.” I am trying new things, for example, a few weeks ago I thought that I’d like to start a YouTube channel and Podcast with my twin sister. A week later we launched our passion project, Twin Chat with S&K. We’re having so much fun and I come from a place of happiness. Not worrying about perfection and what others will think. Those negative thoughts will just attract more negativity. The Secret has been my guide. I believe in myself and I believe that I can create what I want. I also just printed a huge vinyl ‘GRATITUDE’ wall banner that I hung in my office to surround myself with gratitude. Thank you for this space of deep knowing, feeling happy, and feeling grateful that all my dreams are manifesting. It’s amazing!”

5. I Got My Sign I Asked For!!

“I have always been a ‘glass half empty’ type of person. I break mirrors and know I’m going to get 7 years of bad luck! I used to believe that, but deep down I have always hoped that everything happens for a reason.

So I have had a hard couple of years. I always remembered the bad things more than the good things that have happened.

Nine years ago I met my soul mate. We had two beautiful children who we both adore! We have had our hard times, arguing a lot and we lost ourselves. In September we split up and he went off and met someone else. I was absolutely heartbroken. I pretended I didn’t want to be with him when deep down I did. I worried and I was anxious all the time. I didn’t know how I would live without him.”

6. Manifested Good Exam Result.

“I am a dental student in my final year. Due to my negative thoughts, I ruined my own relationship and all the fights with my ex boyfriend lead to frustration. Also, all during my final University exam, I was fighting with my ex boyfriend. That caused me to ruin every single exam that I took. I was not even sure if I was going to get passing marks after my exams. I somehow got to know about The Secret video and then I started to practice the law of attraction.

At first, it was a very crazy experience because I already was having so many negative beliefs, and practicing gratefulness was hard. But I keep doing it. Even though it was very hard to let it go, I decided finally on result day to let it go by saying and really feeling that “Whatever happens, will happen and I will be okay, no matter what!”

Then finally the results came in and I had passed with quite good numbers! I could not believe that it actually happened! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Right now I am practicing for my ex to come back and I hope to come back soon and share that story too. Be positive and let it go, it really works!”

7. Together Forever!

“I live in the US and I cannot wait for my boyfriend to be here with me. He is the most amazing person I have ever been with. We have been in a long-distance relationship for quite a while now and he is making efforts to move to the country I live in. He will be having his visa interview in a few days and I want to thank the Universe and my God for making things happen for me. I never imagined I could be so happy and I would have such good fate to live with such an amazing person who loves me so much and whom I love so much. I know this will happen and the feeling that in a few weeks, he will be here with me is overwhelming.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to God and the Universe for blessing me and him.”

 8. Feeling Abundance And Believing.

“ A coworker was one day telling me how he was the only person who was making income to support seven people in his family, and how he may not have enough money to buy gifts for his children this year. As a Christmas gift I gave him a $25 gift card to use for any necessities he needed to buy. I may not have much, and did not expect to get anything in return. I felt abundant enough that I would be able to help and give others, even just something small.

A few days later, I receive a text from my boss stating that she’s giving me a $250 bonus for Christmas! I was shocked and not expecting anything! I was given 10 times more than what I gifted my coworker! The Universe gives you more if you don’t expect anything in return!

A few days later, I asked the Universe for a sign of a turtle, if I was meant to be with my ex-boyfriend who I recently started to hang out and talk with again. As we were walking back to the car after a morning hike, I saw turtles on a mailbox. Then my ex-boyfriend started talking about turtles because we were near a beach!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you to the Universe for the great abundance and just believing that what we ask for is coming! “