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NH health officials announce season’s first case of Jamestown Canyon virus
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India records highest 1-day spike of over 22k corona cases
India on Saturday recorded the highest single-day spike of 22,771 cases, pushing the total tally to 6,48,315, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. The country recorded a spike of 20,903 cases yesterday.
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India records highest 1-day spike of over 22k corona cases
India records highest 1-day spike of over 22k corona cases India on Saturday recorded the highest single-day spike of 22,771 cases, pushing the total tally to 6,48,315, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. The country recorded a spike of 20,903 cases yesterday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Why (and How) You Should Practice Gratitude Daily
Build daily habits that focus on using gratitude to get happier.
Gratitude is a way to quickly pivot from one negative feeling to a more positive state of mind.
Everyone faces struggles and strife in their life, especially now. Some people are just so good at dealing with the stress, that it seems like their life is perfect.
Although establishing healthy practices is super helpful, no one’s life is perfect. Let’s face it, some days are just better than others.
Given how hard life can be when your luck is down, it’s easy to fall into a slump. At times like these, feeling sorry for yourself is natural, even inevitable. But it can quickly become a problem if it goes on for too long.
Dipping your toe into the slump in order to feel what you need is an essential and important step to recognize a loss. However, you can’t stay there.
Staying too long in a slump can turn to depression, which can consume you. So, it’s important to learn ways to replace self-pity with more useful feelings.
Gratitude is a simple concept, but not always easy to put into practice. Being thankful for what you have and training yourself not to focus on what you don’t have is not easy.
Many of us are trained to focus on what is missing in our lives. Establishing an attitude of gratitude helps us stay present to what we do have and take a minute to be grateful for it.
Practicing gratitude reminds you to pause, put down your worries and stresses, and take a moment to appreciate everything good about your life. It can also manifest as being glad that someone or something is part of your life.
RELATED: 7 Scientifically Proven Benefits Of Gratitude
Here are 6 benefits of gratitude you need to be aware of.
1. It Strengthens Your Relationship.
If you’re grateful to have a special person in your life, you’re less likely to take them for granted.
Practicing gratitude for them and for other things in your life makes you happier. And when you’re happier, you’ll more likely nurture your close relationships.
2. It Improves Mental and Physical Health.
People who practice gratitude are more likely to eat healthy and exercise.
A good diet and regular activity have been known to improve mental health as well as physical health. Living a balanced life is the key to success and happiness.
3. It Tempers Anger and Increases Kindness.
It has been proven that one cannot feel anger and gratitude at the same time. Aggressive behavior is less likely when you’re feeling grateful.
Gratitude also encourages you to express kindness toward others. Shifting out of anger or any other negative emotion can be as simple changing your thoughts from negative to positive.
4. It Boosts Self-Esteem.
When you have strong relationships, you feel better about yourself. Self-esteem is the result of building awareness and doing hard things.
Focusing on what you’re grateful for boosts self-esteem.
5. It Helps You Sleep Easier and Better.
When you’re grateful for your life, you are less stressed. Too much stress can have a negative effect on sleep.
Therefore, practicing gratitude and building in prayer and meditation brings you into a calmer state of mind.
When you meditate, you produce more theta brain waves, which mimic those available in deep sleep. So, gratitude helps you sleep better.
6. It Changes Your Outlook On Life.
Optimism is a positive side-effect of regularly practicing gratitude. If you’re focusing on the good things in your life, you worry less about the bad things.
Test it out and ask a random sample of your friends who’ve created a gratitude practice. Generally, those who spend time in gratitude will report a much more positive, “glass half full” approach.
A great way to help you focus on gratitude is to establish a journaling practice. This process becomes much easier when you do it regularly. But creating a habit in a vacuum is hard, not impossible.
And as much as we’d like to believe it, thinking about something is absolutely not doing that thing!
So, try to incorporate easy solutions you can remember to practice gratitude in your life.
Whether it comes naturally to you or not, feeling grateful is something you should work on every day.
Here are 9 of the many ways to build habits to practice gratitude.
- Tell your loved ones how much you appreciate them.
- Keep a gratitude journal to jot down your grateful moments.
- Thank restaurant employees, clerks, and others for their service.
- Avoid negative social media posts and news. Unplug!
- Take care of yourself with downtime.
- Develop healthy habits.
- Live in the present, not the past, or the future.
- Add inspirational quotes to your office decor.
- Focus on your strengths, not your shortcomings.
Establishing a gratitude practice is not just recommended, but it truly will improve your quality of life.
Practicing gratitude is about being present and counting your blessings, and it can chase away your feelings of gloom and anxiousness.
Life balance is only reached when consistent practices are in place. Gratitude can be a part of your daily plan and practice to create sustained joy.
Another easy way to build a daily habit focused on gratitude is to start consistently meditating.
You can use apps like Calm and Headspace. They are easy to access and simple to remember to regularly use. Just tap the app on your phone or ask your home device to “play today’s meditation.”
So, get quiet, be reflective, and be grateful. Don’t think about it, just get started today.
This guest article was first published by Cena Block and on YourTango.com: 6 Life-Changing Benefits Of Practicing Gratitude Daily.
Psychology Around the Net: July 4, 2020
Happy 4th of July!
Here in America, not only does July usher in the birthday celebrations of these United States, but since 2008 July has also been the Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, or Minority Mental Health Month, or even BIPOC Mental Health Month (Mental Health America has decided to phase out the word “minority” and instead refer to Blacks, Indigenous People, and People of Color).
Regardless of how the name evolves, its original namesake — Bebe Moore Campbell — was a teacher, author, journalist, and mental health advocate who worked hard to bring awareness to the mental health needs of the Black community and other underrepresented communities. Bebe Moore Campbell passed away in 2006, and in May of 2008, the US House of Representatives announce July as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.
There are plenty of online resources that can guide you on learning more and getting involved! Consider getting started with MHA’s 2020 BIPOC Mental Health Month Toolkit, which focuses on everything from mental health and racial trauma to lists of resources specifically for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities, as well as NAMI’s Strength Over Silence, an ongoing docuseries highlighting the perspectives on mental health across different backgrounds and communities.
Now, on to this week’s Psychology Around the Net!
Living With Family Amid the Pandemic? Follow This Mental Health Advice: According to a recent analysis, somewhere around 2.7 million U.S. adults aged 18 to 25 moved in with another adult family member back in March and April, putting the number of young adults living with an adult or grandparent at an all-time high. Usually, these types of living arrangements are seasonal (think college semesters and job stints) but given the pandemic-related job losses, school shutdowns, and financial problems, these living arrangements are under different circumstances — and much longer. Naturally, these kinds of living situations can bring about both family and financial tensions, and Newport Institute Executive Director Jennifer Dragonette, Psy.D, has some advice to alleviate the stress.
‘We’ll Always Have Paris’: Taking Momentary Mental Vacations in Stressful Times: Ivy Blonwyn shares a beautifully written reminder that your world can be beautiful, as long as you choose it to be so.
Stop Procrastinating by Doing Your Future Self a ‘Favor’: This little productivity hack explains how can bust procrastination by looking at doing a task at present not as a chore, but as a favor to your future self.
New Programs Use Mental Health Professionals As an Alternative to Police: Studies report at least one in four people killed by police has a mental health problem, and some cities around the nation — including Eugene, OR and now Denver, CO — are implementing programs where a paramedic and a behavioral health specialist, rather than law enforcement, respond to low-risk 911 calls.
Infant Sleep Issues Linked to Mental Health Problems in Adolescents, Study Suggests: New research out of the United Kingdom shows that there might be a link between sleep problems in early childhood and the development of some mental health disorders in adolescence. The study, involving 7,155 children, found that irregular sleep routines and frequently waking in the night as babies and toddlers was linked to psychotic experiences in 12- and 13-year-old children. Additionally, kids who slept for short periods at night were more likely to experience borderline personality disorder as early as 11 and 12 years old.
Don’t Judge Me by My Inattentive Mistakes: “Being prone to those trivial errors that make you slap your forehead doesn’t mean you don’t have a lot to offer – fortunately, most things that matter are about much more than being able to avoid inattentive mistakes.”
Photo by Nicole De Khors from Burst.
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