Thankful Hearts, Thriving Brains: How Gratitude Reshapes Your Mind with Jim Kwik
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
How can you use gratitude to improve not only your mood, but your overall cognitive performance?
Gratitude is something we’ve talked about quite a bit on this show. You already know that being grateful is good for your mental health. It lowers stress and anxiety, while building resilience and deepening your relationships. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the incredible benefits to your brain health and overall cognitive performance.
I want to do something special on today’s episode. As we enter the season for giving, I want to take a moment to dive into the science behind gratitude and highlight the many ways it can improve your brain.
When you practice gratitude, it can change the molecular structure of your brain. It helps you make better decisions, achieve more, and increase productivity, all while providing you with peace of mind. And in a chaotic world, calm becomes one of the most valuable currencies. Listen in as I give you practical things you can do every day to help you grow more of the things you appreciate.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to QuickBrain. Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free. You're my. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:29.2 | Show me. Welcome back quick brains. This is the quick brain podcast. I am your host and your brain coach, Jim Quick of Quick Learning, where we specialize in helping you to learn quickly. |
| 0:39.0 | So let's explore the powerful tool, this powerful tool, that not only is going to make you feel great, but also, again, has profound benefits to your brain health and your overall performance. |
| 0:53.5 | And let's get into the science of gratitude. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm going to list some of the studies |
| 0:57.8 | that my team has sent to me for research for this. |
| 1:00.8 | So let's dive in. |
| 1:02.1 | And I'm going to give you practical things that you |
| 1:04.1 | could do each day to kind of feel more of the things that you appreciate. |
| 1:08.1 | Remember what you appreciate, appreciates. It grows. What you appreciate, appreciates. And did you know that practicing gratitude |
| 1:16.1 | can actually change the molecular structure of your brain? Yes, it is that powerful. When you express gratitude, not just say you're grateful, but express gratitude, |
| 1:28.0 | your brain releases a dopamine, it releases serotonin, which are two crucial neurotransmitters that are responsible for your emotions and they make you feel good and they enhance your mood pretty much immediately and remember a lot of what we talk about is state regulation that you could |
| 1:45.5 | control more of how you feel and they make you feel happy from the inside. Now you might wonder how often |
| 1:52.4 | should you practice gratitude to reap these benefits. |
| 1:56.0 | Research shows that even something as simple as writing things down, like three things that you're grateful for today. You can do this right now actually. You could post this, you could share it on social media, you could take out your gratitude journal. That's kind of my preference because I write it in each day and then when I'm feeling a little |
| 2:14.1 | bit down I could go back and read for months or even years all the things that I'm grateful for and it can |
| 2:19.2 | significantly improve your |
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