Video: Why is gratitude important?

You’ve probably heard that practicing gratitude has all kinds of benefits, but what are they? What’s so great about gratitude? In this video, life coach Sandra Possing breaks down the many benefits of being grateful and explains how practicing gratitude can actually rewire your brain to be more positive.

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Key Takeaways

Practicing gratitude can actually help rewire your brain to be more positive. Gratitude can help improve your mental health.
Expressing gratitude can help you experience joy and discover what makes you feel good in life.

Video Transcript

We are bombarded by negativity all day long by the news, social media, and people complaining. Our brains have negativity bias where we're better at noticing what's bad than what's good, which is annoying but important—we evolved that way to focus on problems so we could find solutions. And in order to survive, we had to learn what was dangerous or what could harm us and tend to that first. But now that often takes the shape of people around us constantly complaining, blaming, or judging their surroundings, and it's really important for our mental health to balance that out with an influx of positivity. Gratitude can help with that. It can help us rewire our brains to have a healthy bias towards positivity. Plus, it feels a lot better to become more positive, optimistic, and hopeful. When we emphasize gratitude in our lives, we experience joy and happiness and are better able to find what makes us feel good.