Gratitude Workbook and eliminate dissatisfaction in life

Gratitude Workbook and eliminate dissatisfaction in life

Von Thorsten Hawk

Content

Gratitude the remedy for dissatisfaction

History of gratitude in evolution

The brain and gratitude

Our brain is capable of learning

Why does gratitude make you happy?

What does gratitude do?

Why is gratitude so important?

Healthier living through gratitude

Reduction of negative feelings such as anger, envy and fear

Gratitude protects the heart

What is there to be thankful for?

More friends, more success and a better self-esteem

Happier relationships through gratitude and appreciation

Learning gratitude made easy

The meditation of gratitude

The 5-finger method

The gratitude diary

The 5-coin trick

See the good in the bad

What do most grateful people actually think about?

The Conclusion

My 4 weeks gratitude diary

Quotes of gratitude

Gratitude the remedy for dissatisfaction

Positive psychology has long said that mindfulness, appreciation and gratitude lead to better health, satisfaction and happiness, but the little word "thank you" which we teach our children to say from an early age is increasingly being forgotten.

In the following we would like to show you how valuable gratitude is, what it means and how to express gratitude to small children.

and daily rituals to more zest for life and the associated health in everyday life.

History of gratitude in evolution

In evolution, the people who could show gratitude have prevailed. If someone had done something nice for you, the brain was animated to do something nice for that person as well. For example, someone was hungry and someone else showed him a place where there was food, so he felt grateful. This resulted in an obligation to return the favor and thus a motivation to behave socially. One would like to be considered an egoist. Thus the cohesion of the primates was strengthened and the survival was secured. Selfish individuals were so quickly recognized and avoided.

Every phase of our lives, every year and every day we experience both positive and negative things, that is perfectly normal.

But if we are thankful in all these phases of life for the things in life that are going well or that we already have, we do not waste so many thoughts and strength in the negative in our lives.

If we turn more to appreciation and gratitude, we consciously create a feeling of satisfaction.

The cornerstone here is to approach daily life with a certain amount of mindfulness, because only if we are mindful is it possible to steer moments and events in the positive direction.

However, for most people this is not so easy and they live their lives in the complete opposite of gratitude. You take good and beautiful things for granted, you often don't even see them, you constantly think about what is bad or negative and you don't appreciate what you already have, but always strive for more.

Some studies prove several times that if we continuously appreciate more things in life and are thankful for what we already have or good things happen to us every day, we feel better all around and are simply more satisfied.

Sounds easier than done, doesn't it?

Then why do we only remember at the end of each day the things that happened to us? Even though statistically speaking, 80% of the day went well?

The brain and gratitude

In the thousands of years that have already passed, our brain has developed quite far. But not only with the aim to bring us daily happiness and satisfaction, but more and more to survive.

If we look at evolution, it is rather unimportant to know where the most beautiful flower blooms or to really feel the fresh air we breathe every day. Our life will rather be controlled by the motto, eat or be eaten, only the strongest will survive.

Our plan does not say much about happiness and joy, but rather how we survive best, which skills we have not yet mastered and how we can best train them to survive in the next fight.

This is exactly why our brain stores the negative instead of the positive things.

This is also often called negativity tendency or bias of the brain.

The best example of this, the well-known researcher Rick Hanson

negative things stick in our memory like bustle on a piece of tape, while positive things simply roll off like the so-called lotus effect.

So we can't really help thinking about the bad things of the day at the end of the day, or what we have to do better in the near future.

But this doesn't really make us happy and satisfied.