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Joanna Milne 🏺's avatar

Absolutely. I also think if we have a positive mantra which we say every day it makes a big difference to help ‘rewrite’ our brains . It can’t fix a problem but it can help with reducing negative thinking spiralling out of control. Rumination. Helps get back to neutral a little better. I have one I say every day now. Once in the morning. Once when I go for a walk at lunchtime. Once in the evening. It did something to the rewiring in me so I’ve kept it up

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Callie Di Nello's avatar

Brilliant piece: I still rally against doing a gratitude journal each day (might push myself to recount #3goodthings before bedtime 😂) even tho my superpower is finding the positives in everything - according to my psychotherapist! But love the science’y stuff and think I’m going to have to dust off my journal and get cracking …

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Sarah Kokernot's avatar

This is a great piece! I never considered how the gratitude journal or list corrects for our negativity bias. Also: a friend of mine taught me the practice of keeping a gratitude list right next to desire lists. In my experience, writing both keeps me feeling showered in blessings but also with a spirit of fiery motivation.

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Maia Duerr's avatar

Thank you, this was an excellent read. Intuitively and from my own experience, I know gratitude practice can be incredibly helpful but I didn't know a lot of the back and neuropsychological reasons that you described here. Let's hear it for the goddamn gratitude journal!

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