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Loving our own & others stories.
HEART STARTING RITUALS THAT CREATE MORE story spotting & joy.
GRATITUDE FUELS CONNECTION & CURIOSITY.
BRINGING MORE GRATITUDE, BRIGHTENS PEOPLE’S DAYS.
Why gratitude? Gratitude opens us up. It is a heart-starter. It moves us from thinking and analysing, to feeling and listening. The act of feeling grateful, literally opens our hearts by reducing our defenses, reducing our negative bias and reducing our fears. It stimulates empathy, emotional intelligence, curiosity and compassion. It helps us hear other’s stories without judging, it helps us assume the good in other’s motivations and behaviours, and it helps us make people feel valued for who they are. Our most powerful emotion. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others”, said the Roman philosopher, Cicero, thousands of years ago. And he’s right. Recent research has found that gratitude not only makes us happier, but improves our relationships and how well we work, and increases our ability to create and to feel human connection.
Recording things and experiences for which you’re grateful, has lasting positive effects - creating positive mood and happenings that keeps increasing for up to six months.
WHY GRATITUDE? Because it feels good and is one of the healthiest most transformative commitments we can make to life, ourselves and each other.
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