Dr. Peggy DeLong shares five gratitude practices to improve your emotional state. Practice one: say "thank you" out loud when you wake up, without needing to name what you're grateful for. It interrupts negative thought spirals and rumination, especially during grief.
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What are these five practices that you teach? Sure. The very first is when we wake up in the morning, and that is simply to say thank you out loud. We might not be thinking clearly, so we don't even need to think about what we're grateful for. It's just through the power of language and the association of saying thank you with. With what our brain thinks has happened. So when typically when we say thank you, we have already received something. So it's a way that we can kind of trick our brains to feeling good. And often that's when people feel the worst, especially when you're going through difficult time in life. And I know for me, I think a lot of people who are grieving can relate to almost for just a brief second, having to remind yourself that you lost your loved one. It can. It can hit you first thing in the morning. And by saying thank you, it helps to prevent those negative thoughts from spiraling out of control. So when people stay in bed and ruminate over negative thoughts, you can start to have a terrible day before you've even gotten out of bed. And. And saying thank you out loud is one way to prevent that negative spiral. And.
