The Power Of Gratitude As A Transformative Element In Life
In the past two months, we have learned the importance of truth and acceptance. This process helps a new attitude emerge in us, through which we become predisposed to believe in ourselves. Now let’s focus on gratitude
I believe that gratitude is always an option. And you?
Childhood is the best time to instill the most important values and principles in life, one of which is gratitude. The child tends to repeat the behavior of parents or more significant people, based on observation.
Your brain will be more stimulated whenever you feel gratitude. This pleasant sensation releases the pleasure hormone, serotonin which will reinforce the tendency to repeat that behavior in life.
People who learned the act of gratitude in childhood have greater chances of achieving school success and developing excellent interpersonal relationships. They become individuals with mental clarity and an open attitude towards life
A teenager with a grateful heart will place more value on the important things in life than anyone else. Gratitude works like a giant magnet for opportunities and it is a clear sign that the young person can live in the present.
Also in adulthood, being grateful is key to accessing many of the good things in life. This affective, cognitive, behavioral and spiritual state fosters greater success in interpersonal relationships, stimulates well-being, as well as the recognition and admiration of others.
Several studies have proven the usefulness of the act of gratitude to achieve a happy, pleasant, and fulfilling life and that generates pleasant sensations in the person.
There are countless advantages to being a grateful person. It is more than a question of education. It is a very promising and honorable lifestyle!
Life is a continuous process, constantly changing. In this process we must let the healthy customs and habits that were instilled in us grow and multiply them for future generations, especially when we refer to fundamental values such as gratitude.
Is living in ingratitude a choice?
Answering the question very directly, I think so. It is a choice and unfortunately there are many people who choose not to be grateful
But when we know the lives of these people more closely, we have to understand and accept them, without judging. And because of the ingratitude of others I don’t have to transform. Everyone has to live with their choices.
We spend so much time suffering with this and that, angry, resentful or ungrateful… But if we stop next to nature and admire a simple garden or the waves on the beach, we manage to contemplate with great clarity and reality. Inevitably, we will end up dying, but that simple garden and the waves of the sea will remain there. We are really very insignificant!
You are the one who chooses from today and for the rest of your life, at every moment, to be or not to be a grateful person. Gratitude can and should be an action that develops automatically, just as happens when brushing your teeth. It must become a daily behavior without which we feel incomplete.
Each of us has to find our own ways to create, feel and develop our gratitude It thus becomes a vital attitude: “I am grateful for breathing…I am grateful for loving…I am grateful for having a family…I am grateful for, in my head, being able to fly…I am grateful for being grateful!”.
In recent years, much has been discovered regarding how gratitude can affect and change the quality of people’s lives. This quality of life only occurs if it is associated with a change in the way of thinking
Even a totally depressed, impatient, or selfish person can change their thoughts by emotionally balancing their heart and exercising gratitude on a daily basis.
To understand this positive effect on the mind, it is necessary to explain the effect of oxytocin, a chemical substance produced by the hypothalamus, on specific areas called para-ventricular and supraoptic nuclei.
Now, this substance is released by the brain when the feeling of gratitude is activated. Is about a reward system that is the basis of satisfaction and self-esteem This hormone generates happiness and is responsible for pleasure and a feeling of well-being. If you feel grateful every day, you will be happier.
As life teaches us lessons, we tend to grow, not only intellectually, but emotionally as well. To do this, it is necessary that we place certain behaviors and feelings in our lives. They will make our lives truly worthwhile, in this world so full of darkness. Gratitude plays the role of guiding us through obstacles, challenges and traps.
Gratitude has contagious power! There are moments when it seems impossible to feel or be grateful for the pain, suffering, or sadness experienced. But everything in life has a purpose and, most of the time, we do not understand our experiences in the exact moment in which we live them. Of course, changing thoughts and emotional growth are essential to living in gratitude.
