‘A Grateful Heart Is a Healthier Heart’, http://www.newswise.com/articles/a-grateful-heart-is-a-healthier-heart, Newswise (9-Apr-2015).
Reduced cardiac risk
Recognizing and giving thanks for the positive aspects of life can result in improved mental, and ultimately physical, health in patients with asymptomatic heart failure.
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Spiritual well-being was associated with better mood and sleep, but it was the gratitude aspect of spirituality that accounted for those effects, not spirituality per se. (…) Those patients who kept gratitude journals for (…) eight weeks showed reductions in circulating levels of several important inflammatory biomarkers, as well as an increase in heart rate variability while they wrote. Improved heart rate variability is considered a measure of reduced cardiac risk.
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It seems that a more grateful heart is indeed a more healthy heart, and that gratitude journaling is an easy way to support cardiac health.
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Alex Wood, Deepak Chopra
Oorspronkelijk
Paul J. Mills, Laura Redwine, Kathleen Wilson, Meredith A. Pung, Kelly Chinh, Barry H. Greenberg, Ottar Lunde, Alan Maisel, Ajit Raisinghani, ‘The Role of Gratitude in Spiritual Well-Being in Asymptomatic Heart Failure Patients’, http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/scp-0000050.pdf, University of California, American Psychological Association (2015, Vol. 2, No. 1, 5–17), http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000050
Links
‘A Grateful Heart Is a Healthier Heart’, http://www.newswise.com/articles/a-grateful-heart-is-a-healthier-heart, Newswise (9-Apr-2015).
Paul J. Mills, Laura Redwine, Kathleen Wilson, Meredith A. Pung, Kelly Chinh, Barry H. Greenberg, Ottar Lunde, Alan Maisel, Ajit Raisinghani, ‘The Role of Gratitude in Spiritual Well-Being in Asymptomatic Heart Failure Patients’, http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/scp-0000050.pdf, University of California, American Psychological Association (2015, Vol. 2, No. 1, 5–17), http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000050
