The Benefits of Gratitude: How Practicing Gratitude Can Improve Your Mental Health and Relationships

Have you ever heard the phrase — smiling and laughing prolong our living? It’s a true statement. If you ever notice how people behave around you, you may find one principal difference. Some people are smiling and laughing. These people are usually:

• kind
• responsive
• positive
• loving

All we want is to live, communicate, and be friends with such kinds of people. On the other hand, we have people who are the complete opposite of them. These people always have angry faces and don’t like anybody around them. You can determine them by the following characteristics:

• angry
• sad
• envious
• condemning

I don’t know any people who want to have such friends. Even if we have them, the desire to spend much time with them is pretty low. We don’t want to see them, help them, or even get help from them.

But how can we understand who we are in this world? To what group of people are we placed?

There is no exact answer to this question. We all are a mixture of the two types. The only thing we can control is to become more positive or negative.

The most powerful tool to become more positive and less negative is to be more grateful. How to approach this?

There are several ways to do this. First of all, we have to think about what we have and don’t concentrate on those things we don’t have yet.

The following steps can help you to practice gratitude without no much effort:

• notice what you already have
• write a gratitude journal by the end of your day
• sit and note what you have in your life, but others don’t
• find opportunities that are already available for you
• answer who are your friends

These steps are an entrance to the room called gratitude. You need to understand yourself and your life. If you feel sad, look around yourself.

The first thing that can help to get out of the depression is thinking and looking around yourself, but not inside yourself.

Mindfulness and meditation are potent tools that you can use to see the world and people as they are. Finding answers to your questions and seeing the truth is much easier when you are not closed in your box.

I recommend you read this article because it can tell you how to start meditating and practice mindfulness.

Besides these recommendations, I want to tell you several more things you have to know, what you already have or can get quickly:

• technologies to learn and grow
• society to discuss it with
• friends to ask for feedback and help

And first of all, you have the number one person who is your friend, teacher, and leader. It’s you! Listen to your heart and mind, and you will know what to do!

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