Microblog: Happy 2021 Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving.

Researchers wanted to see if daily feelings of gratitude could be a buffer against the negative consequences of CVID-19.

📖This study asked participants to complete an online daily questionnaire which included questions about their daily subjective health, their feelings, and daily stress related to CVID-19.

🌟The findings showed that feeling more gratitude than usual was associated with more positive emotions and better subjective health.

💡Feeling more gratitude was also associated with less stress related to the pandemic.

Read the full study: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/advance-article/doi/10.1093/geronb/gbaa220/6025410

💭Some thoughts: According to research conducted by the National Science Foundation, we have around 50,000 thoughts daily. Of this, 80% of our thoughts are negative.

Negative.

⚠️80% negative.

The major areas of negativity:
▪️ Regrets of the past
▪️Fear of the future
▪️ Unhealthy comparisons (hello, social media)
▪️ Blame (self or others)