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Friday, November 25, 2011

Being grateful helps fight stress

Although it seems quite obvious that gratitude is a positive emotion, for decades, psychologists almost never discussed the implications of the phenomenon of giving thanks. But in recent years have done so, and many experiments have allowed them to learn which is one of the most powerful emotions of humanity.

It makes you feel thankful happier and can change own attitude to life, like a button to restart the emotions. Especially in difficult times like these. Beyond to show that being grateful is helping those psychologists also try to elucidate the chemical processes that gratitude produced in the brain and the best ways to prove it. Michael McCullough, a psychology professor at the University of Miami who has studied the people who are asked to regularly give thanks, said that "when you stop to count the blessings you have received, like you're abducting your emotional system." kidnap and refers to a state of depression for placement in a good site.

A very good site. Research by McCullough and others found that giving thanks is a powerful emotion that feeds on itself, almost the equivalent of being victorious. It could be called a virtuous circle. He said that psychologists often underestimate the power of simple gratitude. "If it is more happy people ... is this incredible feeling." One of the reasons why gratitude works so well is that connects us with others, said McCullough. That's why, when you give thanks, to be in a more personal and profound, rather than a simple note of thanks for a gift or a quick thanks before taking food, psychologists say. Troianim Maryann, a psychologist in the area of Chicago and author of self help books, said he is slowly introducing its customers to gratitude, sometimes simply by limiting their complaints to two per session. In the long ago to write the good things that have happened in a kind of "gratitude journals."

"To be grateful really changes your attitude and your outlook on life," he said. Grateful people "feel more alert, alive, interested, excited. It also feels more connected to others, " said Robert Emmons, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis campus, who has written two books on the science of gratitude, and who often studies the effects of such gratitude journals.

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