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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration

June 26, 2024


The focus for today is:

When I practice being more grateful and optimistic, I improve my health.

Today's inspiration:

People in a recent study who were more grateful had lower blood pressure and heart rate, as well as greater feelings of appreciation toward others.

The study, published in the journal Emotion, finds that optimism is also linked to health and mental benefits, such as better sleep quality and more positive expectations and reflections.

The findings show that gratitude and optimism are positive psychological dispositions associated with beneficial outcomes. Gratitude highlighted the positive aspects of the day, whereas optimism minimized the negative aspects of the day, the study indicates.

CONTINUE READING:
Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
     The Greedy Reason for Being Optimistic and Having Gratitude
     Written by Jared Wadley, University of Michigan.
Read the complete article here.

About the Author:  David Newman was the study’s lead author and is a postdoctoral scholar of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.

This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of practicing gratitude and optimism (today and every day)

Comment from Marie: When we feel sick, we have no energy and it's difficult to find things to be grateful for, and optimism can be hard to come by. However, when we feel good, we easily experience gratitude and optimism. So perhaps this is a case of choosing to feel the feeling first in order to create the energy we want. As Wayne Dyer has famously written: "You'll see it when you believe it!" Practicing gratitude will help create or attract more and more situations for which to be grateful, and our optimism will naturally increase. 

Our focus for today: When I practice being more grateful and optimistic, I improve my health.

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