A conscious focus on blessings may have "emotional and interpersonal benefits".
Last week Danielle La Porte posted a statement on Instagram. She began:
“Gratitude is a quality of the heart… that’s good for your brain chemistry. Science! University of California, Davis studied people who kept a weekly gratitude list compared to people who kept a list of things that irritated them. And whaddaya know!? They concluded that “a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits.”
She finished by saying: "We can conclude: Appreciation is a form of wellness.
"So in service of your joy and health, I love these 5 questions for even deeper gratitude…
And this is where Tina Roth Eisenberg comes in, who brought these questions, and this post, to my attention. I so appreciate both of these people who show us what we're doing right, day after day, week after week.