Dear ,

I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving time!

I am grateful that we get a reminder to be grateful each year with this holiday. But fostering an attitude of gratitude, on a daily basis, can create a strong foundation for a happy and healthy life.

Some quick wellness facts about feeling gratitude from a 2017 study.

1. Feeling gratitude increases functioning of the Parasympathetic nervous system (rest, digests and repair) while decreasing our Sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight response).
2. Feeling gratitude has shown to effect our Limbic system - our emotional body - positively impacting emotions and memories and perhaps even healing emotional trauma.
3. Feeling gratitude may positively impact the nucleus accumbens (NA) helping motivation and even the effects of depression.

Also below are some gratitude principles I came across. I really appreciate the message that worry is optional and we can choose gratitude in its place to access the deep joys of life.

10 Gratitude Principles to Live By

By Heidi M. Parton

1. Gratitude is awareness that, as things come to you, they are exactly what you need - be it people, circumstance, or challenges.

2. Worry is the opposite of gratitude; it is the failure to understand that you have been and will continue to be provided for each day.

3. Whenever fear over your future encroaches, stop to observe a tree. Consider how the tree continues to stand tall and grow throughout the various cycles and seasons of its life span.

4. Worry is an action. Gratitude is an action. Both are optional. By choosing gratitude you drive out the space and time for worry.

5. It isn't hard to do; gratitude is simply noticing the good stuff in your life.

6. What you pay attention to, or notice, tends to expand and grow.

7. Each day brings a multitude of opportunities to feel gratitude and appreciation.

8. When you neglect the action of appreciating, you limit your potential for joy and contentment in the present moment.

9. Worry does not prevent bad things from happening; it only prevents you from accessing joy in this moment.

10. The present moment is the only place where joy and contentment can exist.

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Thank you so much for being part of the Village Wellness community. Amy, Gabrielle, Carey, Stewart, Kendra, Jennifer, Sue, Kevin, Tao, and Heather ALL feel so blessed to do work that we love and are so grateful for your support!

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Have an AMAZING week!

Love,

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