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Welcome to the page and Day 01 of AllSwell’s Mindset Reset: Your Seven-Day Journaling Journey. One week, helping you go from bleak to peak. I’m so glad you’ve made the choice to show up for yourself this way.

Gratitude is a life-hack, a super-power of sorts. A regular gratitude practice can literally boost your brain’s baseline happiness settings. Over the past two decades studies have consistently found that people who practice gratitude report fewer symptoms of illness, more optimism and happiness, stronger relationships, and more generous behavior, among other benefits.

Additionally, a gratitude practice can help you retrain your brain to become a more positive person. How? It’s called “the Tetris effect.” The video game has been known to have a scientifically measurable impact on people’s brains and even invade their dreams. Similarly, the effect of practicing and retaining a more positive thinking pattern has powerful mental, emotional and even physiological upsides.

Where to start? Just a few minutes will do. Not sure what to write about? Tap into your senses. What sights, sounds, tastes, textures and scents are you grateful for?

In a good flow? Don’t stop at the “what.” Go further, tap into the why. Why are you grateful for the items on your list? Explore this on the page.

Now take a beat to check in. How did that feel? Was it enjoyable? Do you feel a shift in your mood? Did you notice something in your life that you might not have recognized otherwise? No wrong answers here. Just be present to the experience.

Here’s a tip for keeping your gratitude practice fresh: going forward, if you find your gratitude practice starting to get stale or repetitive over time, create an entry of your “usual suspects” and park them on the page. You are officially grateful for these things in perpetuity. Then look further afield and scan your life for additional things for which to be grateful. This strengthens your positive lens. Gratitude-colored glasses.

In Swellness,

Laura

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