Episode 048 - Health Benefits of Gratitude

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and that you were able to wear your special Thanksgiving pants and pack your bellies full of whatever it is you eat on Thanksgiving.  I’m not here to lecture you and tell you how to be and that you should be thankful for all you have, you’ve already heard a lot of that already, I’m sure. But in today’s episode, I AM going to talk about how focusing on the positive over the negative can help your health, how gratitude is linked to improved heart-health, sleep, and well-being, and how it can also improve job satisfaction and the way you deal with stress.  --  Firefighter Podcast Facebook Community  12 Days of Kaizen  Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration  The Role of Gratitude in Spiritual Well-being in Asymptomatic Heart Failure Patients A little thanks goes a long way: Explaining why gratitude expressions motivate prosocial behavior Gratitude influences sleep through the mechanism of pre-sleep conditions