If You Do One Thing for Heart Health, Be Grateful.
According to a state of the science review, gratitude isn’t just nice for sociality, it’s probably good for cardiovascular health!
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How often do you give thanks? Like, really give thanks… I know that I think of myself as fairly grateful and I could totally rev up my thanksgiving. Gratitude is the process of giving thanks and appreciation to those in your life, for yourself, and life in general.
Expressing gratitude and being the object of other’s gratitude makes us feel good. That is something we know from experience. What science is uncovering about gratitude is rather cool. A recent review of gratitude science…
