11 Gratitude Journal Prompts to Better Your Mental Health

It's no surprise that meditation, intentional self-care, or even a health and wellness podcast can make us feel significantly better, daily. In fact, there are proven health benefits! Yet, as hard as we may try, it’s too often second nature to focus on the things we perceive as wrong in our lives, rather than the many blessings (and pure magic!) that inundates us daily. Through gratitude practices, you can become more attuned with your highest-self and begin to look at life through a pure lens of love—and finally fully see, and appreciate, the blessings that have always been there. It’s easy to be grateful for obvious joys, like a promotion at work or family and friends. But, are you aware of how often you truly feel grateful? Knowing and feeling are two different states of being—and the latter allows you to be fully present (and notice the smaller delights in life).

The world seems to have found a strong cadence of ingraining negativity into our subconscious via the news and social media. The very real and difficult times we are indeed living in don’t help this cause. It’s not naive to believe that you can recognize the hurt that may surround you (in fact, it’s an important part of our civil duty to do so), and choose to look for the good in each and every moment. Because at the end of the day, gratitude is what may save us all.

Ahead you’ll find 11 gratitude journaling prompts to help rewire your brain to focus on the positives in your life and in the world. Ultimately, choosing to see the good allows you to become more open to receiving even more good—and maybe, just maybe, the more open we become, the more empathetic and non-divisive we will be too.

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