Episode #36: Let Us Be Grateful - A Gratitude Affirmation Practice

In designing our practice today I sought to create an experience that is simple that you can do everyday, multiple times a day, whenever and wherever you are. We are going to combine breath and affirmations in this experience together. To start I will guide you through a brief breath exercise to ground your body and mind and then lead you in 3 affirmations. We will repeat the affirmations 7 times because research supports the idea that to remember something we must repeat it at least 7 times. I’ll say the affirmations out loud and you are invited to repeat them with me outloud or in your mind. Let’s get started……..

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Episode #35: Clinical, Professional, and Personal Gratitude

Gratitude is a beneficial practice that we probably could agree on on an anecdotal basis, so I went to the research to see what evidence there was for the benefits of gratitude. In one recent study, published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity authors Hazlett et al. note that because of the brain-body connection between gratitude and support-giving behavior, gratitude may may reap the same benefits of amygdala deactivation and reduction in threat-responses, thereby reducing inflammation in the body and increasing immune responses……

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