Why Is Gratitude Such A Powerful Practice

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Why Is Gratitude Such A Powerful Practice

By Catalina Morales Velez

Discover how gratefulness looks in real life and how it can change your entire human experience. When you aim to be your best version, there is a practice that continuously shows up in almost every piece of content you consume; gratefulness.

What makes gratefulness so essential to be featured in the different media you read, watch, or listen; is that it's something that goes deeper than barely bringing awareness about how blessed you are.

The regular practice of gratefulness creates new neural connections in your brain that allow the opening of the spectrum of things and experiences you appreciate. This practice literally impacts the reticular activating system (RAS), and according to a study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, by day 18th of a daily gratefulness practice, you would move from doing the assignment of the day - thinking about what are you thankful for or writing the beautiful things you experienced during the day, to finally unlock fulfillment.

This appreciativeness state enables you to live your everyday life in awe without any conscious effort. The beauty of consolidating the practice's benefits is that feelings that fuel your body, open your mind, and allow you to see other perspectives and details; sprout organically.

The state might come to you while walking towards your car when suddenly you witness the magnificence of the machine taking you home. You will see how strong it is, how it protects you, and how it takes you in such a comfortable way back home.

You will appreciate on another level the value of this material possession. It may be a more intimate realization and come to you when watching your children. Offering you an abrupt awareness that those beings came out of you or are part of you, and the same thing that it's making your heart pump it's breathing life to them.

It might even come to you as the capacity to discover flowers alongside the road that you have never seen before and be bewildered by them.

Those moments when you are remarkably present and connected to the holisticness of the human experience, you don't want or strive for anything. You are free! Photo by Fa Barboza on unsplash The reason is that what you're experiencing is what you have been

The expansion of your reality is what you gain, and because you did it consciously for X amount of days, the neurons linked strong enough together to open your mind to see and enjoy your life fully.

Gratefulness is an essential practice because it reveals that everything you already are is what you truly want.

That doesn't mean that you discard the desires for that cool car, plenty of money, getting an MBA, or anything material and connected to human expression. It just releases the weight and responsibilities that we drop on top of those physical things to provide us with happiness and feelings of wholeness or fulfillment.

It Does That, Because Thanks To The Gratefulness State You Reached, You Will Find That In Every Moment Of Every Day!

--Catalina is an inspiritual communicator and consciousness entrepreneur based in Canada. She teaches her audience how to embrace life experience with their spiritual and human sides working as cooperative components. You can sign up for Catalina's weekly tools for those aiming to improve themselves on her website Shine Inc.

By Catalina Morales Velez