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What are the benefits of being grateful? Why is practicing gratitude<\/a> so important for living Wholeheartedly<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Gifts of Imperfection, <\/em>Bren\u00e9 Brown’s fourth guidepost for living Wholeheartedly is to practice gratitude. There are many benefits of being grateful, but it can sometimes be difficult due to the fear of emotional pain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue below to learn about the benefits of being grateful according to Bren\u00e9 Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Practice Gratitude<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fourth guidepost for living Wholeheartedly is practicing gratitude<\/strong>. There are many benefits of being grateful. Brown\u2019s research shows that true gratitude is more than just a passive attitude. It\u2019s not simply waiting for something good to happen and enjoying the transient feeling of gratefulness that this event brings. This approach won\u2019t lead to a grateful mindset taking hold.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, you need to practice <\/em>gratitude. Practicing gratitude means frequently taking action to recognize all of the things you\u2019re grateful for.<\/strong> This could be the small things, like your coffee this morning being delicious, or big things, like having a fulfilling job. You could keep a gratitude journal, do a regular gratitude meditation<\/a>, or verbalize the things you\u2019re grateful for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might feel that you\u2019re too busy<\/a> to sit around thinking about all of the things you\u2019re grateful for and that the benefits of doing so won\u2019t outweigh the time you\u2019ll lose. However, practicing gratitude doesn\u2019t require a huge time commitment. Even if you just spend two or three minutes each day listing the things you\u2019re grateful for, you\u2019ll still feel the benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Benefits of Being Grateful<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are three key benefits of being grateful. First, it reminds you of the good things in your life that you might otherwise ignore. <\/strong>Humans tend to adopt a \u201cscarcity\u201d mindset. This is a way of thinking that emphasizes what you don\u2019t have and ignores what you do have. For example, it\u2019s thinking \u201cI don\u2019t exercise enough, I don\u2019t have enough money, I\u2019m not successful enough\u201d while simultaneously ignoring the good things you do and your positive qualities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This mindset harms your worthiness. It\u2019s another way of seeing yourself and your actions as \u201cnot enough.\u201d Meanwhile, gratitude takes the focus away from all of the things you don\u2019t <\/em>have and puts it back on the things you do <\/em>have. This restores your worthiness. You\u2019re more likely to feel \u201cenough\u201d if you constantly think about your positive traits and the good things in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, gratitude encourages you to appreciate the \u201cordinary,\u201d more mundane good things in your life. <\/strong>Society allocates great importance to being exceptional: for example, winning awards or earning a fortune. This may make you feel like your actions aren\u2019t worth anything unless they\u2019re extraordinary. For instance, you might think, \u201cYes, I made a great sale at work today, but a scientist I read about in the news just won a Nobel Prize. What value does my achievement have compared to that?\u201d You begin to lose sight of the worth and importance of \u201cordinary\u201d actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practicing gratitude can help you to overcome this issue. Gratitude encourages you to acknowledge all of the good things about your life, including things that seem mundane. It invites you to be grateful for these more \u201cordinary\u201d occurrences and restores their value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, gratitude breeds joy.<\/strong> During her research, Brown found that people who self-labeled as \u201cjoyful\u201d regularly practiced gratitude. Ultimately, if you want to be joyful, you need to be grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By joy, Brown doesn\u2019t mean happiness. She sees happiness as something that\u2019s brought on by specific and short-term circumstances\u2014for example, the burst of positive feeling that comes from getting a good appraisal at work. Meanwhile, joy is a deep contentment with life that is borne from practicing gratitude\u2014for example, the fulfillment you feel when you recognize that you have a satisfying job that you\u2019re deeply grateful for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear, Gratitude, and Joy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There is one barrier you\u2019ll need to overcome if you want to embrace gratitude. That barrier is the fear of emotional pain.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admitting that you\u2019re grateful for things and that they bring you joy often leads to the fear that you\u2019ll lose these things and experience deep emotional pain. You might think that if you avoid gratitude and joy, you\u2019ll avoid pain too. You may also believe that practicing gratitude isn\u2019t worth it because the vulnerability to pain it brings is too great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To stop this fear from inhibiting your gratitude and joy, you need to learn to become comfortable with the existence of pain. This will take courage: pain isn\u2019t an easy thing to accept or acknowledge. Our natural instinct is to shy away from it and avoid it at all costs. But, accepting the existence of pain is an important part of embracing gratitude and living Wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To become comfortable with the existence of pain, you should remember that you\u2019re never going to be able to avoid pain entirely, no matter how hard you try. Refusing to practice gratitude and experience joy won\u2019t totally shield you from suffering, so you might as well allow yourself to be grateful and joyful. It\u2019ll give you some good times to go along with the bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, you need to recognize that pain can have positive side effects. For instance, going through tough times means you will appreciate good times and joy all the more. Pain may strengthen you and make you even more grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, you should frame your fear as another thing to be grateful for. For example, be grateful that you have something that you love so strongly that you\u2019re afraid of losing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, remember that giving in to fear and shutting out gratitude and joy will only serve to make pain harder to overcome. Allowing yourself to be grateful and joyful even during tough times can make your struggle easier to bear. Even when bad things happen, there are still little pockets of good in the world that you can be grateful for. You can use this gratitude to soothe your pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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