Want to practise gratitude, but don't know where to start? Stylist sat down with MYndMap founder Rosemary Ikpeme to find out more:
a 12-week mindfulness, gratitude and goal setting journal, to tell us more about the benefits of practising gratitude.Practising gratitude: “When we feel lost or stressed and we feel out of control with what’s happening in our lives or around us, I think gratitude can anchor us and give us that sense of grounding that we need.”– it’s a practice of being in the moment which allows you to feel a bit more in control.
“In my mid-20s I had a quarter-life crisis. My career wasn’t going the way I wanted it to, my family relationships were not working, my friendships were not quite working and I ended up breaking up with my long term boyfriend. So everything outside of me seemed to be falling apart. I used to wake up really frustrated,“So I decided to stop pointing fingers and find out what was going on.
“And that’s gratitude, essentially – the roads that we walk on were paved by someone else, the houses that we live in were built by someone else, the chairs that we’re sitting on, someone came up with that idea and built that chair. These are all gifts that we take for granted, and just being able to reflect on that makes you feel grateful.
“Gratitude can also help you to feel less alone. When you feel out of control, you feel alone – like life isn’t working for you, it’s working against you. But when you practice gratitude, and you see all these amazing things that have been done for you to benefit from, it feels like life is working for you. You feel valued, you feel loved. And that is the emotion I think that gratitude brings to people. It makes you feel valued.
“There’s been numerous pieces of research done on gratitude for many years, and one conclusive thing that the research has shown is that gratitude helps with our mental health;
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