This platform is designed to bring a wide range of topics, resources, and inspiration to you on this journey of well-being to live a life that is as healthy as it can be for each of us. Since it’s heart month I decided to look up the role of gratitude and heart health- turns out there’s quite a bit for us to explore! Today I’m bringing you one of my favorite podcasts, the Huberman Lab. The information Andrew Huberman brings is fascinating to me. It’s a longer listen, but it may resonate with you and really make a difference in your life. As always take what serves you and leave the rest behind.
Andrew Huberman says, “The neurochemical, the anti-inflammatory, and the neural circuit mechanisms that gratitude can invoke are equally on par with some of the effects of pharmacology. Things like high-intensity interval training, exercise, and other things that we think of as kind of more potent forms of self intervention. So if you are of the mindset that a gratitude practice is kind of weak sauce, buckle up, because the data actually points to the fact that a gratitude practice is a very, very potent way in which you can steer your mental and physical health in positive directions, and that those effects are very long-lasting.”
Around twenty minutes into the podcast Andrew also says, “we now know with certainty that a regular gratitude practice can shift the pro-social circuit so that they dominate our physiology and our mindset in ways that can enhance many, many aspects of our physical and mental health by default. So we don’t always have to constantly be in practice trying to be happy. So the succinct way of saying all this is yes, indeed, we might be wired in such a way that we have a greater propensity for unhappiness than happiness. But gratitude practices, provided they are the effective ones and they’re performed regularly, can shift those circuits, such that we are happier on average, even when we are not performing those practices.”
Then he tells us how to do it and backs it up with science! It’s pretty cool!
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this is great. If everyone were to practice only noticing good things and appreciate and focus on them, we would all see much happier moods.
Need to listen to this tomorrow.
We All have so much to be grateful for. Very interesting.
Yes I’m motivated to give this a try!
A grateful heart is a happy and healthy heart.
I intend to give this a full listen this evening. I know that being around negative-minded people makes me start thinking like them. I’d rather be around positive-thinkers who see all the possibilities!
Going to read this this evening love this type of information thank you
This was very interesting and very informative.
Gratitude changes your whole outlook. I have so much to be thankful for. Thanks for the good information and teaching the physical benefits of gratitude as well.
I believe in the connection of gratitude and good health. Thanks for sharing this podcast. I have not yet watched in its entirety, but what I have listened to so far is very interesting and plan to listen to when driving home from work.
This is great! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing.
Lately I’ve been trying to stay positive !
Thanks for sharing!
I try and make different gratitude lists at night while I am trying to go to sleep.
I believe this is so important!
Give thanks to the Lord for He is good.