Give the Gifts of Gratitude

If you can’t decide which Pockitudes journals to gift or which My Grateful Year poster color, the Pockitudes gift cards are ideal gifts for your friends, family, loved one, co-workers, employees, team members, event or conference attendees, and anyone you are grateful for throughout the year.

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Benefits of a Gratitude Practice

Sticking to a regular gratitude practice is a quick and simple way to improve your mental health and your relationship with the world around you. At a basic, human level, most of us understand that practicing gratitude is important. Honoring the world around us by giving thanks helps us become more empathetic participants in the lives of everything and everybody with which we engage.

Even if we’re not very intentional about being grateful, we generally accept it as a positive, important part of functioning as a happy member of society. But beyond logic, practicing gratitude is actually shown to have astounding benefits for our minds and our bodies. Practicing gratitude actually can make us feel good, and improve our physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

Robert Emmons, the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude, has studied over 1,000 people from all walks of life, and curated this list of gratitude’s benefits:

Physical Benefits of Gratitude:

• Stronger immune systems

• Less bothered by aches and pains

• Lower blood pressure

• Exercise more and take better care of their health

• Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking

Psychological Benefits of Gratitude:

• Higher levels of positive emotions

• More alert, alive, and awake

• More joy and pleasure

• More optimism and happiness

Social Benefits of Gratitude:

• More helpful, generous, and compassionate

• More forgiving

• More outgoing

• Feel less lonely and isolated

Simply put, gratitude is an affirmation of all that’s good. But it plays a powerful role in transforming our health and lives. When we embrace gratitude as a living, breathing practice, it can change our lives in ways we never expected. We begin to see abundance everywhere, and in everything.

What we have becomes plenty, what we are becomes enough, and what surrounds us becomes a living ceremony, worth paying attention to and honoring every minute we are alive. This is true gratitude and abundance, where our hearts and souls are filled just by the air we breathe, or the people we meet, the food we eat, the rising sun, and the body that carries us.

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