🌿 Gratitude: The Energy That Changes Reality

mitsuny
6 days ago
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🧠 1. The Scientific View: The Brain & Body Chemistry of GratitudeGratitude is one of the most powerful emotions—because it directly affects your brain and nervous system.When you feel grateful, your body releases dopamine and serotonin—the "happy hormones"—while reducing cortisol, the stress hormone.

As a result:

✅ Stronger immunity and better sleep

✅ More stable heart rate and blood pressure

✅ Balanced autonomic nervous system

👉 Gratitude also strengthens the neural circuits for empathy, love, compassion, and safety. In other words, it trains your brain for emotional resilience.

🧠 2. The Psychological View: From Lack to AbundanceGratitude is the practice of shifting your attention to what you already have, in the here and now.In a world where we're constantly told we're “not enough” or need to “do more,” gratitude offers the opposite:

✨ You build self-worth✨ You stop comparing✨ You begin to notice abundance around you

In therapy—especially in hypnotherapy and CBT—this is known as reframing, or consciously changing the way we perceive things.

🔍 Bonus: The Role of the RAS (Reticular Activating System)RAS is a filter-like network in your brainstem that controls what information you notice.

Ever decided you want a red bag and suddenly saw red bags everywhere?That’s RAS in action.Or when you think, “I’m not good enough,” and the world seems to reflect only evidence of that?

👉 Your focus shapes your experience of reality.

🌈 3. Law of Attraction View: Aligning Your VibrationIn the Law of Attraction (LOA), emotions are vibrations that shape your future.Gratitude sends the signal: “I already have what I desire.”

The subconscious (or the universe, if you like) responds:“You are fulfilled? Let me give you more of that.”

👉 Gratitude = already having it → reinforces that state.

From a human perspective?If someone never appreciates what you give… you eventually stop giving, right?

🧲 Once again, RAS and LOA work hand in hand:When your mind focuses on what is already fulfilled, your experience of life shifts in that direction.

🎯 How to Work with RAS

Define what you want in clear words (e.g., “My light and healthy self”)
Remind yourself daily—write it, say it aloud, visualize it
Cultivate a self-image where that version of you is natural and normal

✨ RAS becomes your navigator—guiding your perception and thus, your reality.

💓 Start with Gratitude for Your BodyYour lungs that breathe every secondYour heart that never stops beatingYour hands that cook, comfort, and createYour legs that carry you forwardYour cells, organs, and life itself—each is a miracle.

Gratitude isn’t just an emotion. It’s a frequency.When you align yourself with it, your world shifts to meet you there.

💬 My body is my badge of honor.It endured years of neglect.At one point, I was 60 lbs heavier than I am now.It survived surgery.And it carried twin babies—each 2,800g—born healthy via C-section.

With unbelievable strength and compassion, it still supports me.I can only feel deep, reverent gratitude.

If any of this touched your heart,tell me: What part of yourself are you grateful for today? 💌

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Mitsu Emig | エミッグ美津

Certified Hypnotherapist & Coach | Based in New York

MSW, University of Michigan | Management Training, Harvard (Radcliffe)

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