Gratitude Even Makes Our Memories Feel Better Gratitude makes our memories happier.
Our memories are not set in stone, like data stored on a hard-drive. There are dozens of ways our memories get changed over time – we remember things as being worse than they actually were, as being longer or shorter, people as being kinder or crueler, as being more or less interesting, and so on.
couple of studies
m1 Experiencing gratitude in the present makes us more likely to remember positive memories, and actually transforms some of our neutral or even negative memories into positive ones.
m2 In one study, putting people into a grateful mood helped them find closure of upsetting open memories. During these experiences, participants were more likely to recall positive aspects of the memory than usual, and some of the negative and neutral aspects were transformed into positives. benefits of gratitude from a wonderful site with wonderful articles/studies 31 benefits of gratitude ***~happierhuman.com~***
Sounds like this explains why some individuals who practice gratitude are simply more forgiving (: ~Appreciating˚
I AM
Peaceful:
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