Gratitude, Positivity, Emotional Well-Being Sarah Scherer Gratitude, Positivity, Emotional Well-Being Sarah Scherer

8 Gratitude Practices for You to Try

Gratitude has two key components. First, it’s an affirmation that there are good things in the world. Second, it's a recognition that this goodness comes from outside of ourselves. Gratitude leads us to appreciate things and connect to others, both of which are good for our well-being. So how might we increase our gratitude? Here are some practices to try.

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How to Practice Self-Love

Positive feelings toward the self are thought to be a crucial aspect of well-being. For example, self-esteem contributes to positive feelings and more initiative. Luckily, there are a number of ways to boost self-love. By using these strategies, hopefully, we can feel better about our personality, skills, and appearance. Here are some self-love tips.

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5 Tips to Help You Let Go

Holding onto things and people that we can no longer have isn't good for us. It keeps us stuck in memories of our past and prevents us from noticing and appreciating what we have now. So let’s talk about how to let go of all the things that we tend to cling to—the past, anger, love, fear, and more.​

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How to Practice Acceptance

In psychology, acceptance means “taking a stance of non-judgmental awareness and actively embracing the experience of thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations as they occur.” Acceptance refers to acknowledging and allowing your present experience—not necessarily your life situation. Through awareness and practice, you have the ability to increase acceptance in your own life and enjoy the benefits that it may bring.

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8 Ways to Think Happier Thoughts

There are three primary ways to be happier—changing your thoughts, changing your behaviors, and changing your circumstances. Research has likely focused most on changing your thoughts. It has now highlighted a number of ways to change your thoughts to increase happiness. So, we'll focus on the thoughts, or thinking styles, that can help you to be happier.

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7 Self-Love Tips

Self-love is sometimes thought to be an appreciation for one's own worth or value. Positive feelings toward the self are thought to be a crucial aspect of well-being. Luckily, there are a number of ways to boost self-love. By using these strategies, hopefully, we can feel better about our personality, skills, and appearance. Here are some self-love tips.

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9 Tips to Help Regulate Your Emotions

Effective emotion regulation can make you feel better in the short term and in the longer term. When we do not have emotion regulation skills, we often rely on unhealthy emotion regulation strategies. These may make us feel good in the short term but worse in the longer term. By building our emotion regulation skills, we can more effectively manage our emotions with healthier strategies and avoid using these unhealthy strategies.

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7 Strategies to Counter Negativity

If you find that you struggle with negativity, you're not alone. In fact, humans actually have a negativity bias. A negativity bias just means that we notice and feel negative things more intensely than positive things—and negative things have a bigger impact on our mental health. Discover how to shift your mindset from less negative to more positive with these helpful tips.

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7 Ways to Boost Happiness and Fulfillment

Another way to understand happiness is with the concept of eudaimonia, which combines eu (good) and daimon (spirit). Eudaimonia has been defined as a life well-lived, or human flourishing. It is related to happiness and fulfillment. Discover modern perspectives and tips to help you achieve a happier and a more fulfilling life.

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7 Tips to Boost Emotional Well-Being

Boosting emotional well-being is not about stopping or avoiding emotions. Emotions are a normal and necessary part of life. Emotional well-being comes from enhancing emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and emotional recovery. That means increasing emotional well-being is entirely possible—we just have to build some key skills.

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6 Techniques to Calm Your Fight-or-Flight Response

You may already be familiar with the fight-or-flight response—a simplified term for how humans and many other animals respond to threat. However, you may be less familiar with how this natural response becomes less helpful when activated too regularly. Here you will learn how the fight-or-flight response works in the body and how to calm your fight-or-flight response.

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6 Tips to Boost Positivity

Life is not always easy. Sometimes bad things happen that put us in a bad mood. Other times we make decisions that get us down. And still other times we feel bad for no obvious reason. All we know is that we want to feel better...but we're just not sure how. Luckily, psychological research has shown us some ways we can boost our mood.

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