Does being grateful really change your brain?

Being grateful can literally act as a natural anti-depressant and create the same effects of medications by creating feelings of contentment. When ask ourselves the question "What am I grateful for?", certain neurocircuits are activated that increases dopamine and serotonin. This is an example of Hebb's Law, meaning that “neurons that fire together wire together." The application of this in our everyday lives are that we instruct or programme our brains by telling our subconscious what to focus on. It is almost like installing a television dish and telling it what signals to pick up. As soon as we have taught our brain to focus on the things we are grateful for, the easier our subconscious find positive things on a daily basis.

Collateral Beauty

In the movie Collateral Beauty, Will Smith plays the role of a father who lost his six-year old girl to a rare disease. He then questions his very own existence and starts an internal battle with the three things that every person cares about: Time, Love and Death. Everyone wants more time, everybody seeks to be loved and every person fear’s death.