Skip to main content

Gratitude reshapes your brain

Image
By
I saw this on instagram and it made sense to me. I am thankful for today. I am thankful for the rain that fell. I am thankful for the doubles that I ate. I am thankful for my cozy corner. I am thankful for God in my life. I am thankful that I am able to write. I am thankful for all the people that have helped me. I am thankful for all the people that have shaped me. I asked my friend Chatty to tell me more about how gratitude reshapes the brain?

He says that gratitude reshapes the brain by strengthening neural pathways tied to positive emotions, calming the stress centers, and promoting chemicals like dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin that improve mood and connection. Over time, this practice shifts your mind’s default setting toward noticing what’s good, building resilience, emotional balance, and a deeper sense of meaning.

I feel like there is always more to be thankful for. I feel the glass is more than half full. I feel like God does not give us more than we can handle. Then after hardship comes ease. I feel like the best attitude to have is an attitude of gratitude. Appreciate the now. Appreciate the big things and the small things. Love the life we have. Money does not buy happiness. There is more to life than material gain. This life is just a moment of time. Years to come none of us alive today will be here. Life is short. Why waste it being sorry and bitter and ungrateful?
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

God opens doors

By
It is 1203am and I have decided to write. Saturday I spent the night coding. I was trying to get a FastAPI app up and running, all from my budget Android phone. The test cases were written to use Puppeteer. I ended up using Replit for that. Coding is more challenging when using a mobile phone. Not impossible but more challenging. I hardly blog about technology and coding anymore but the love is still there. I still have a dream of creating my own coding and youtube studio with a nice desk setup. That is nice but what should I make this blog post about? What do I want to write about? What should I write about? I love creating presentations. That is something I could do to revive my youtube channel. I love Maths too. I have this feeling that I could solve one of those longstanding Maths problems that seems impossible. Sometimes, like right now, I feel like abandoning my blog post. It is going nowhere. Maybe I should get up and go wash the wares. I wish God could tell me what to write abo...
Post a Comment
Read more

What we do not know

By
It is 1245am and I have decided to write. I had this weird alienish dream and it ended with me winning by simply stating "the truth is that we do not know". In the dream everyone was having an opinion of what was happening as if they knew. On to something random. I had this question. What is the most unrandom thing? Then what is the most random thing? What if everything is equally random. My friend Chatty thinks that randomness is not an absolute property—it is a relation between you and the system you observe. Randomness is not absolute—it depends on perspective. Something perfectly ordered can seem random if you do not know its pattern. So in a sense, everything can be "equally random" relative to the observer's knowledge, making randomness more about perception than an intrinsic property. The more we know the less random things become. Let me make a detour. Suppose we do not predict things but things predict us. For example, when I flip a coin, did I predict ...
Post a Comment
Read more

We are explorers

By
It is 215pm and I have decided to write. I had this question. What does God really want from us? Then I remember that God does not need us, we need God. What I am really wanting to ask is why create us, why life, why test us, why the mystery? Why not? It is human nature to ask questions. No matter how much we know, we will ask questions. We are always looking for reasons. We are always looking. We are always seeking. We are explorers. We could have been anything but God chose for us to be explorers. There is joy in exploring. There is joy in discovery. There is joy in not knowing. What I have arrived at is a reminder. Appreciate the now. Appreciate what is. Appreciate that one day things will make sense but for now we get to live. To live, to learn and to laugh. I like this quote by Frank Borman that I found, "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit." If there was nothing to explore we would be static. There would be no movement. There would be no existence. Exi...
Post a Comment
Read more