Learn how expressing gratitude promotes social wellness, spiritual wellness and emotional wellness. Find out how you can start expressing gratitude more easily in order to improve your overall wellbeing, strengthen your relationships with others and make it easier for you to feel grateful more regularly. After listening to this episode, your action item for the day will be to write a letter to someone, expressing your gratitude for an experience or thing they provided you with.
Music Credit
* Peace of Mind by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4199-peace-of-mind. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Works Cited
- Alkozei, Anna, Ryan Smith, and William D. S. Killgore. “Gratitude and Subjective Wellbeing: A Proposal of Two Causal Frameworks.” Journal of Happiness Studies 19 (2018): 1519–1542. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-017-9870-1.
- Măirean, Cornelia, Maria Nicoleta Turliuc, and Diana Arghire. “The Relationship Between Trait Gratitude and Psychological Wellbeing in University Students: The Mediating Role of Affective State and the Moderating Role of State Gratitude.” Journal of Happiness Studies 20 (2019): 1359–1377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-018-9998-7.
Additional Resources
- The Gratitude Podcast by Georgian Benta - weekly podcast about the benefits of expressing and experience gratitude and ways to practice both.
- 10 Ways to Express Gratitude - a blog post by PsychCentral with multiple suggestions (beyond just letter writing) to show gratitude towards others.
- The Gratitude Experiment - YouTube video by WellCast that further discusses the science behind expressing gratitude and its effect on wellbeing, as well as ways to practice expressing gratitude as a regular daily habit to improve your wellness.