101+ Benefits of Gratitude
For Individuals
For Sur-Thriving in Life
For Emotional Health
- May help make us happier.
- Increased mental strength & healthier relationships, including romance.
- Can improve psychological well-being.
- May enhance positive emotions.
- May be a protective factor when it comes to suicidal ideation in stressed and depressed individuals.
- Helps us be more optimistic.
- Can enhance our spiritualism.
- Can make us more charitable and giving.
- May help us be less materialistic.
- Greater tendencies towards positivity and an expanded capacity for happiness and optimism
- Can help us develop a gratitude personality.
- Can help us be less self-centered.
- Can help reduce feelings of envy.
- Can help us relax more.
- May help us look better!
- More satisfaction with life while encouraging the development of patience, humility, and wisdom.
- Can help us savor good experiences more.
For Emotional Health
For Sur-Thriving in Life
For Emotional Health
- Can help create a renewed perspective in life.
- Can help raise our level of consciousness and how we see the world.
- Can help us find more joy.
- Can help us accept, align, and awaken to a new path.
- Can raise our level of expectation.
- Can help us feel more hopeful.
- Can help us practice forgiveness.
- Can help us develop more empathy, patience and understanding.
- Can help us love, bless, and honor our body more.
- Helps us achieve Heart Coherence. Heart Coherence is a state of cooperative alignment between the heart, mind, emotions, and physical systems.
- Can help us feel more abundant and prosperous.
- Can help us practice non-judgement towards others.
- May help facilitate the recovery of people with depression.
- Helps us bounce back and be more resilient,
- Can help us celebrate the present moment.
For Sur-Thriving in Life
For Sur-Thriving in Life
For Sur-Thriving in Life
- Can help us turn disappointments into acres of diamonds.
- Help us become a Sur-Thriver – and go from merely surviving to thriving.
- Helps us view past problems as a blessing.
- Helps us move into the realm of infinite possibilities.
- Helps us turn life’s painful lessons into blessings.
- Helps us view struggles differently.
- Helps us see problems in a new light.
- Can help us acknowledge and express appreciation for those things in life that aggravate and annoy us and those persons, places, or things that often act as triggers, setting us off on a negative path.
- Can help us believe in our own ultimate potential more.
- Can help us turn angst into accomplishments.
- Can help us become a Blessivist!
- Helps us deal with misfortune in a healthier way.
- A gratitude practice trains the brain to be more in tune with experiencing gratitude.
For Business & Career
For Business & Career
For Sur-Thriving in Life
- Less likely to experience burn out.
- May help us be more effective managers.
- Reduces impatience.
- Improved decision-making.
- Helps us find more meaning in our work.
- May contribute to less turnover.
- Improved work-related mental health and reduced stress.
- Can increase productivity.
- Can boost our career.
- Can help us network better.
- Increases our goal achievement.
- May increase job satisfaction.
- Helps us think outside the box.
For Social Aspects
For Business & Career
For Physical Health
- May enhance prosocial behaviors such as helping, sharing, comforting, donating, or volunteering, and cooperation, that are intended to benefit others.
- Helps us be more likable.
- May enhance romantic relationships.
- Increases social support.
- Can improve family relationships in times of stress.
- Improved friendships.
- Acts as a buffer against stress.
- Enhances our empathy.
- May reduce aggression.
For Physical Health
For Business & Career
For Physical Health
- May help us get better sleep.
- Can reduce symptoms of depression.
- Can reduce blood pressure.
- Enhance overall physical health.
- Can boost the immune system.
- May help us live longer.
- May help increase energy levels.
- Makes us more likely to exercise more.
- Can make our memories happier.
- Helps us to feel good.
- Lower levels of cellular inflammation.
- May help encourage healthier eating behavior.
- Can enhance recovery from coronary health events.
For Recovery
For Empowerment
For Empowerment
- Can help people recover from substance abuse.
- May facilitate the recovery of those with depression.
- Helps us bounce back and be more resilient.
- Can help us savor good experiences.
- Helps us deal with misfortune in a healthier way.
- Keeps us away from being too egocentric.
- Helps us deal with adversity better.
- Helps us release emotional baggage.
- May help us move forward in life in a healthier way.
- Helps us connect with that sense of inner peace.
- A gratitude practice trains the brain to be more in tune with experiencing gratitude — a positive plus a positive, equal more positives.
- Can help us block toxic emotions like resentment, envy, regret and depression.
For Empowerment
For Empowerment
For Empowerment
- Can help us celebrate the present moment more.
- Helps us deal with misfortune in a healthier way.
- Helps us feel more empowered.
- Encourages us to look outward.
- Helps us shift our mindset towards positivity more.
- Can help us hit the rest button and start fresh.
- Helps us release emotional baggage and move forward in life.
- Enhances our desire for self-improvement.
- May help us with manifestation.
- Can help increase intuition and alertness.
- May help prevent bad decision making with finances and overspending.
- May help us be better parents.
- Can help us disconnect from toxic, negative emotions and the ruminating that often accompanies them.
- Encourages us to look outward.
- Can help us connect to the Universe/Source/God better.·