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Embrace Your Real

The Science behind a Gratitude Practice (It's Not as Cliche as You Think!)

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0982 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

I know you've heard me talk about gratitude practices before and how it's something I prioritize daily. I know you've also heard everyone else talk about it, too. I know many of you probably think it's just this fluffy practice that won't actually help, or that it sounds great but in reality you don't think it will actually help change they way you feel in your life. For all of you who feel this way, I have put this episode together to prove you wrong!

I'm going to dive into WHY gratitude is so powerful and why you should stop overlooking it as a daily habit you practice. I personally think my gratitude practice is just as important as nourishing my body with what it needs and honoring my body with movement.

Are you ready to find out why? 

If you loved this episode, I have a short episode out from the early days of this podcast that I want to link that gives some good food for thought regarding this topic:

Episode 6: How to Take Control of Your Day and Live a More Positive Life

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0:00.0

Hey, hey beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick.

0:08.0

You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Rail with me Julie Better.

0:12.8

I'm about to give you a quick tip for building your confidence,

0:15.5

honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self.

0:19.3

Stay tuned if you're ready to Embrace A Real.

0:21.7

Let's get it, let's go. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Embrace Real Podcast. If you've tuned

0:41.0

into this podcast for a while you've likely heard me talk about gratitude practices and how it is something that I do prioritize daily.

0:48.0

You've also probably heard other people talk about gratitude. You might have seen gratitude journals.

0:52.0

Maybe you do already practice gratitude or

0:54.7

maybe you think it's a fluffy practice that won't actually help like maybe it sounds

0:58.8

great but in reality it won't actually help you feel different in your life.

1:02.8

And for those of you who feel this way,

1:04.3

I wanted to shed some light on gratitude.

1:06.4

And I wanted to share kind of like a two part of this podcast.

1:09.5

So the first part's going to be sharing

1:11.0

all about the science behind gratitude and how

1:13.1

gratitude itself has a literal biological response when we do practice it and how

1:19.1

cool that is and then the second part of this podcast is sharing the most important thing in my life, my faith, and as Christians

1:25.8

thankfulness should be an integral part of our praise to God. So first let's dive

1:30.3

into kind of the science behind the gratitude practice.

1:33.8

Did you know that our brain is actually wired to have a negative bias?

1:36.7

This means that we are chemically wired to see the bad in things.

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