Count your blessings

From: Doug Skrecky (oberon@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 06:28:22 MDT

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    From the Globe and Mail:

     A new study by researchers at the Universities of California and Miami
    shows that people who consciously remind themselves every day of the
    things they are grateful for show marked improvements in mental health
    and some aspects of physical health, reports The Dallas Morning News. The
    results appear to be equally true for healthy college students and people
    with incurable diseases, according to research published in the Journal
    of Personality and Social Psychology. Compared with groups of subjects
    who counted hassles, such as "hard-to-find parking", grateful subjects
    felt better about their lives and more optimistic. The college students
    exercised more; the chronically ill adults reported sleeping longer and
    waking up refreshed. Being grateful was also superior to its distant
    cousin - seeing oneself as better off than others. people who took
    pleasure in the troubles of others - Schadenfreude - had better mental
    health than those who counted hassles, but worse than grateful people.



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