Gratitude Challenge

Gratitude shifts our perspective towards the positive, as we focus on what is good in our lives rather than what is less favourable. Practised daily, it changes what we notice first.

What the research shows: gratitude is associated with activity in brain regions involved in reward and value (Fox et al., 2015, a correlational fMRI study), and a gratitude writing exercise added to counselling showed effects that were still measurable three months later (Kini et al., 2016). That is a real finding and a modest one. It is not evidence that gratitude changes brain structure or hormone levels, and this journey does not claim that.

Each day for thirty days you record a short video naming one thing you are grateful for and why. By the end you have a month of your own evidence, in your own voice, of what a good day is made of.