The Future of Gratitude, Mental Health and Technology

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: Grateful people feel more optimistic and happy, better mitigate aversive experiences, and have stronger interpersonal bonds. Gratitude interventions have been shown to result in improved sleep, more frequent exercise, and stronger cardiovascular and immune systems. [psywb.springeropen.com] The Buzz 2: Children spend an average of 53 hours per week with digital media — video games, social media, reality TV, exposure to violence, virtual connections that replace face-to-face friendships – which researchers fear may be causing a decline in empathy. [doinggoodtogether.org] The Buzz 3: Expressing gratitude can positively change your brain. It boosts dopamine and serotonin, the neurotransmitters in the brain that improve your mood immediately, giving you those positive feelings of pleasure, happiness, and well-being. [healthcare.utah.edu] The Buzz 4: Gratitude apps will help you improve your mood by focusing on the good things in your life. [makeuseof.com] We’ll ask Karen Gibson, Deslynn Jaquias, Sandy Davies and Sarah Klaiber for their take on The Future of Gratitude, Attitude, Mental Health and Technology.

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here,
0:06.9	ready here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen,
0:11.2	and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.0	Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.
0:21.3	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven
0:27.1	trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.6	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:37.3	I'm going to start off the show with something a little
0:39.1	bit different. I am grateful to be here on live radio broadcasting on Voice America business channel.
0:45.5	I am grateful to have a voice and be able to express it. I am grateful to Voice America for
0:51.1	broadcasting us to LinkedIn and Facebook for allowing us to live stream and to the
0:55.5	Restream service, which works most of the time. I'm grateful to Gabe, my wonderful new engineer.
1:01.2	I'm grateful to Aaron Keller, who has risen to be a very, very important person at Voice America
1:08.4	Radio. I am grateful to everybody who is listening around the world.
1:12.8	And if you haven't guessed, our topic, it's not Thanksgiving Day, but it might as well be.
1:17.3	Our topic today is the future of gratitude, mental health, and technology. So it's a very important day.
1:24.0	I'm trying to get the captions off on Facebook while I'm talking to all of you.
1:30.9	So I'm grateful for being able to multitask, but I haven't been able to do it yet.
1:37.1	So our topic, as I said, is gratitude. We might even call it appreciation. And I don't think there's quite enough of it yet in the world. We sure need it. The Beatles had a song,
1:41.8	all you need is love. Well, I think all you need is gratitude and
1:44.8	appreciation, express it to people. You can't just assume people know it. So let me give you
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