Who has practiced, to be grateful for the little things of life, feels in everyday life is better and suffers less from mental health problems. The describe researchers at the University of Twente in the “Journal of Happiness Studies”. Thus, they demonstrated for the first time, that the gratitude feeling for a workout.
217 participants with poor well-being and mild mental health problems were divided into three groups, one of which is a six weeks every day for about a quarter of an hour "Gratitude Hausaufgaben" made: for example, to appreciate, to concentrate actively on gratitude, the other gratitude, about the positive effects of adversity to reflect and to keep a diary.
In comparison to the participants in the other two groups that had either no role or a day per week with a Good book should do, had the well-being of almost a third of those significantly increased, which had trained her gratitude feeling. The effect lasted months after the Training. In the other groups this was only at 14 and 19 percent of the participants in the case.
Ernst Bohlmeijer, Professor of positive mental health, said: "Gratitude training is not a Trick, quickly to be happy. It is a new life developed setting. Life is less a matter of course, and that makes the people more flexible. It is not a matter to ignore a negative experience, but difficulties and mental stress and to recognize and appreciate at the same time, the good things in life. This is in fact the essence of psychological resilience." The researchers are working now to make your Training available as an App.
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