It is Thanksgiving Day in
the USA—a time to celebrate the quality of being grateful. And to practice it! Neurobiologically, gratitude is right up there with awe and wonder
and the benefits are myriad. Doctors have pointed out that when you pause to appreciate and show caring and compassion, the
more order and coherence you experience internally. When your heart is in an ‘internal
coherence state,’ studies suggest that you enjoy the capacity to be peaceful
and calm yet retain the ability to respond appropriately to stressful
circumstances. I choose to practice gratitude on a daily basis. So what makes
Thanksgiving Day more unique than any other day? On this day I pause to
be specifically grateful for those individuals who love me enough to give me quality time throughout the year by phone, text, email, snailmail—and sometimes in person (how deliciously rewarding). I refer to them as my ‘family-of-choice’ because a gift of time is a personal choice. It is the only thing your brain can give another brain that no one else can. So for their quality time I am truly grateful. Wherever you are and whatever you are
doing, my wish for you today is that you both give and receive the gift of ‘quality time.’
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