This article is based on an expert interview with Sandra Possing, conducted by wikiHow Staff Editors. Sandra Possing is a life coach, speaker, and entrepreneur based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sandra specializes in one-on-one coaching with a focus on mindset and leadership transformation. Sandra received her coaching training from The Coaches Training Institute and has seven years of life coaching experience. She holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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You’ve probably heard that practicing gratitude has all kinds of benefits, but what are they? What’s so great about gratitude? In this video, life coach Sandra Possing breaks down the many benefits of being grateful and explains how practicing gratitude can actually rewire your brain to be more positive.
We are bombarded by negativity all day long by the news, social media, and people complaining. Our brains have negativity bias where we're better at noticing what's bad than what's good, which is annoying but important—we evolved that way to focus on problems so we could find solutions. And in order to survive, we had to learn what was dangerous or what could harm us and tend to that first. But now that often takes the shape of people around us constantly complaining, blaming, or judging their surroundings, and it's really important for our mental health to balance that out with an influx of positivity. Gratitude can help with that. It can help us rewire our brains to have a healthy bias towards positivity. Plus, it feels a lot better to become more positive, optimistic, and hopeful. When we emphasize gratitude in our lives, we experience joy and happiness and are better able to find what makes us feel good.
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