How gratitude rewires your brain | Christina Costa

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🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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When a psychologist who studies well-being ends up with a brain tumor, what happens when she puts her own research into practice? Christina Costa goes beyond the "fight" narrative of cancer -- or any formidable personal journey -- to highlight the brain benefits of an empowering alternative to fostering resilience in the face of unexpected challenges: gratitude.

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0:12.0	Psychologist Christina Costa is on. He's Hugh, you're listening to TED Talks daily.
0:12.6	Psychologist Christina Costa is on a cancer journey,
0:16.2	but she doesn't want to be called a fighter.
0:19.0	She challenges the notion of going to war
0:21.3	with our own bodies in her 2021 archive talk from TEDX U of M and offers
0:26.5	other well-being practices instead.
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0:50.9	When I was a middle school science teacher, I would often ask my students to kiss their brain.
0:55.0	I got this idea from visiting my friend's kindergarten classroom.
0:59.0	She would ask her students to kiss their brain and they would take their fingers tap them to their mouth and
1:04.6	then to the top of their head and it truly was as cute as you can picture it to be.
1:09.7	So I decided to bring it back to my middle school classroom which could have gone one of two ways
1:15.6	but it ended up being a really fun ritual for us too and I would ask them to
1:20.4	kiss their brain for all the work they did in class as a practice of gratitude.
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