11月29日 培养感恩，改变你的生活
什么是感恩?
感恩这个词来源于拉丁语 例如，意思是“恩典”、“仁慈”或“感激”.“从本质上来说, gratitude is the expression of a thankful appreciation for what you receive, 可以是有形的东西，比如生日贺卡, 自制的点心, or a hug; or something intangible like someone’s friendship, 我们在美国所经历的自由, 或是温暖的阳光照在我们身上的感觉. Whatever it is that brings us joy, tangible or intangible, is worthy of our gratitude.
感恩的好处
在积极心理学研究中, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. 它的表达帮助人们感受到更积极的情绪, 享受美好的经历, 改善他们的健康, 应对逆境, 建立牢固的关系.
感恩是最可靠的预测因素之一 生活满意度. 它也是一个强有力的预测因素 健康的关系, an effect investigators likened to getting a relationship “booster shot.”
These associations and effects have not only been demonstrated in “well-functioning” individuals, 但也适用于那些与心理健康问题作斗争的人. 最近的一次 研究 sought to determine the impact of a gratitude practice on 300 adults seeking mental health counseling at a university. The participants were separated into three groups: one assigned to write a letter of gratitude to someone each week, a second group assigned to write their deepest thoughts and feelings about negative emotions, a third “control” group with no assigned activity at all. 与第二组和第三组比较, the group writing gratitude letters reported significantly better mental health four and twelve weeks after their writing exercise ended. What was even more interesting was that even those who didn’t send their letters to the person they wrote them to seemed to experience the same level of benefit.
Practicing gratitude also seems to have an effect on a person’s physical health. 一个 研究 suggested that those who kept a gratitude journal reported fewer headaches, 减轻胃痛, 清晰的皮肤, 减少拥堵. 另一个 研究 suggested that practicing gratitude could help those with clinically impaired sleep to fall asleep more quickly, 睡眠时间, 拥有更好的睡眠质量, 白天更容易保持清醒. 甚至更多的研究表明，练习感恩可以 提高心率变异性, 降低血压, 改善心脏病发作后的血管功能.
Whatever it is that brings us joy, tangible or intangible, is worthy of our gratitude.
培养感激之情
一个 nice thing about cultivating gratitude is that it can often be done for free (excluding the costs of pen and some paper in some instances) and can be done with relatively little effort. It simply requires intentionality: remembering to be grateful. 一些方法包括:
- 写感谢信:如前所述, writing a thank you note to someone is a proven way to improve your own happiness as well as nurture your relationship with someone. The effect doesn’t even appear to diminish if you don’t send the letter. It’s even beneficial to send a letter to yourself every once in a while.
- Keep a gratitude journal: By taking time to recognize what we have to be grateful for and actually writing it down, we keep positivity front-of-mind rather than focusing on what’s not going right.
- Practice mindful meditation: As we’ve discussed in a previous 帖子 正规澳门赌场app正念的好处, developing a mindfulness meditation practice can help us focus on the present moment and make us grateful for what we have.
带回家
当我们进入感恩的季节, now is the perfect time to start a habit of gratitude and carry this feeling of thanksgiving through the rest of the year. 你是否告诉你的配偶你有多感激他们, 你的员工对你所做的工作有多感激, 或者自己写日记, we encourage you to think of all the things you have to be grateful for!
We here at the Kansas Business Group on 健康 are extremely grateful for all of the incredible organizations and people we are fortunate to work with. 谢谢您的支持, your efforts to do what’s best for the health of your employees, 以及你对我们社区健康的承诺!
感恩节快乐!
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