With the current Coronavirus pandemic dominating our lives, news, conversations and social media, it can sometimes be difficult to keep the positive aspects of life at the forefront of our minds. Practicing gratitude is a great way to practice psychological flexibility, and turn own mind away from what isn’t going well in our lives, and towards what is.
Gratitude helps reminds us all of the things in our lives and in the words that we have to be thankful for. Imagine how much more difficult this pandemic would be if we didn’t have friends, family, running water, electricity, home deliveries, Uber Eats and Netflix!?
We encourage you all to start to practice using a gratitude journal, or keep a gratitude list, either to start or end of the day. By practicing this, we practice being more flexible in the way we think about things, the perspectives we take, and the actions we engage in.