Well, I hope that you found that this last session on the overview to this module, which is dealing with having a right perspective toward a life by thanking was that was a helpful session. And I hope there's as you did your assessment, that you are able to really go deeper in the area of your own level of gratitude right now and how you can improve that and develop that the days to come. So what what we want to do in this particular session is talk about the power of thinking, and we specifically want to deal with the benefits. Now, I want to ask you this question. When you complain and act like a victim, or just act frustrated or angry. How does it make you feel about yourself and others?

Probably not all that great. It might feel good for a moment. But often it kind of leads to a downer, right? can lead more to being down and being depressed. On the other hand, when you're thankful, in a situation, don't feel like a victim, but take responsibility for things you can change. How does that make you feel?

And I trust it makes you feel positive and hopeful and expectant, and gives you that use stressful sense. Well, again, that's critical to this concept of having the right perspective toward life by thinking. And in this particular session, I want you to understand very quickly, the seven scientifically proven benefits of dealing with stress and particularly life this way by having an attitude of gratitude by being thankful. The seven areas are this gratitude number one opens the door to more relationships. So the more grateful you are, the more relationships and the better relationships you have. This is a case because no one wants to be around a grumpy striper.

People want to be around people who are grateful and appreciative and gracious. Now, I love what George Bernard Shaw said, I'll say this a number of times during our our times together, but it's it's a great quote he says in the right key, you can say anything in the wrong key, nothing. The delicate part of life is establishing the key. So think of a great musical, an orchestra, you want to be playing off the same page, you want to be in the right key, you want to be harmonious, everyone is working together in a harmonious way. So in relationships, the way we get and stay in the right key is to resolve conflicts the right way. We'll touch on that in our module on dealing with people by building them up.

But beyond that, we get in the right key by constantly feeding into people. Everyone has an emotional bank account. As, as Steven Covey said, and so just like in our financial bank account, we can withdraw money if we are depositing money. So that's true about relationships, we can withdraw or acts more for people or mess up at times with people if we are depositing inside of people. So I want you to think about how much you're depositing inside of people, and entire outside yourself by being thankful when you're filled with gratitude. You're depositing in people and I'll give you a lot of working capital to withdraw when things get tough, and they will get tough.

So number one, gratitude opens the door to more relationships. Number two, gratitude improves physical health. I want you to think about that. Gratitude improves physical health. We are physically more healthy when we're filled with gratitude because when we're griping or complaining, we tend to be worried we tend to get angry we tend to get depressed and that affects us physically, as we've already talked about, and when I filled with gratitude or Thanksgiving are thankfulness. What happens is I tend to have this sense of physical well being, my heart works better.

I don't have the indigestion in my stomach from worry and frustration and anger and bitterness. I'm overall in better health because again, I've got this positive mental attitude. The third area is that gratitude improves. Fifth, psychological health. Now, this of course, these are all central to dealing with stress, right, because they're all stress related, but it improves our psychological stress. In fact, gratitude reduces a multitude of toxic emotions from envy and resentment or frustration and regret, attitude effectively increases happiness and reduces depression.

Think about that. Because when we're grateful we're taking the proactive steps to overcome those things. Fourthly, gratitude enhances empathy and reduces aggression. So if you want to have a life where you're Relating to people and not so aggressive, not so much in conflict, gratitude will reduce that it will slow those things down when people are thankful. It creates harmony. I will tell you more stories about that the days to come.

Fifth, gratitude helps people sleep better. I'll think about that related to stress. If you can sleep better, you're going to be able to deal with all the pressures that come into your life. And remember, stress will increase, but distress can decrease. But one of the greatest tools to deal with that is getting proper amounts of sleep. And Applied Psychology did a study some years ago, and they found that just 15 minutes or if you took 15 minutes to jot down what you're grateful for just sentiments before going to bed, you had a much higher viability of not only length of sleep, but quality of sleep, so it helps sleep.

Gratitude sixthly improves your self esteem, because when we're grateful, we tend to have not only a positive perspective toward life, but even toward ourselves, we cut ourselves some slack. And remember, as we talked in this last session, the balance, when it comes to our view of self is constantly realizing that we're special, we're unique, we're of great value. And that's all filled with positive statements, but at the same time realizing we're loaded with soft spots or weaknesses. And so keeping those in balance and constantly adjusting them without going to one extreme or the other, that we those are intensely true all the time. So you want to improve your self esteem. gratitudes foundational to that.

And then finally, gratitude increases our mental strength, our ability to think or our ability to reason because our mind is more fresh, it's more active, the synapses are firing and connecting a lot better when we're filled with gratitude again, another study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in truth thousand three found that gratitude was a major contributor to resilience. For instance, following the terrorist attack on September 11. People recognize that being thankful, even in the worst of times, was a way to live a life of joy and peace, even in the midst of the most horrific circumstances. So you can see though, in those seven areas why this is so critical. Now, by the way, we're making available, this full article in your resource center. So you can see the studies behind this and even dig deeper.

And I encourage you to do that. And feel free again, to be interacting with us on the Facebook page. So we can really process this together and pull from your insights and group wisdom and also try to give responsive help. So what I want you to do now is as we finish this video is to take a look at your own life. Think of those seven benefits and ask yourself, Am I living out this kind of gratitude in my experience? Seeing these benefits, how is my thankfulness or lack of thankfulness, holding me back or propelling me forward in this area, I'll be a very great self assessment.

And then finally, the action step going forward is this. I want you to think through the benefits of gratitude, and think how you can begin to practice them more, in what circumstances you could practice them. And I also want you to read the other link or perhaps Pete PDF that we make available for you and it's the 28 points, actually 28 benefits, it goes even deeper in every area of our life of being grateful. And and I want you as you go through that to say, am I experiencing these things because of gratefulness? Or am I losing out on some of these benefits because of a lack of gratefulness? That's your action step.

Keep the processing keep the writing. Do the reading. Watch the videos we recommend interaction On the Facebook page, because remember, we're trying to go from learning, to applying put it to work, to engaging by developing good habits around these principles and ultimately be able to help others with them at the same time. All right. That's the end of session number two in this module, and I look forward to getting us even further into the process and the practice of being thankful and being filled with gratitude and our next two sessions