This informative video looks at the science of gratitude, which studies have shown can have a significant impact on mental and physical health.
Professor Andrew Huberman explains why the most commonly used gratitude practices, such as gratitude lists, are ineffective, and discusses why we can't simply make up feelings of gratitude, and how reluctance undermines the process.
He describes the key elements of highly effective gratitude practices, including the essential need for narrative, receiving or perceiving gratitude rather than giving it, and the role that theory of mind plays in this context.
Prof Huberman goes on to explain the neural circuit mechanisms that underlie the reductions in fear and increases in motivation and lowering of inflammatory chemicals that effective narrative-based gratitude can trigger.
Throughout the video, he uses the science of gratitude to design a brief, but highly effective protocol.
A regular gratitude practice can provide resilience to trauma, and can inoculate someone to any trauma that might arrive in later life. That's a powerful thing.
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