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¿Le gustaría sentirse de mejor ánimo? ¿Usted es de las personas que le gusta llevar a la práctica consejos para aumentar su estado de animo positivo? Pues este ejercicio es para usted.

Diversas investigaciones apuntan que una depresión puede deverse a pensamientos distorcionados, pensamientos muy negativos que solo ven las cosas malas que pasan en la vida y dejan de observar las cosas positivas y las cosas favorables que estan ocurriendo dia a dia.

Bajo este enfoque diversos investigadores se tomaron la tarea de ver que sucedia si durante algunas semanas las personas dedicaban algun momento de la semana para agradecer por todas las cosas buenas que sucedian. Esto trajo consigo mejoras en el estado de animo de las personas y la remision de los sintomas de depresión leve que algunas personas peresentaban.

Así que ya sabe, dedíquele 3 minutos un dia de la semana a agradecer las cosas buenas que tiene, y su estado de ánimo se lo agradecera.

Fuente:

1. Emmons and McCullough (2003) were surprised to find that happiness could be increased by a simple gratitude exercise. Participants took the time to write down 5 things they were grateful for each week, for 10 weeks. At the end of the study this group were 25% happier than a comparison group who simply listed five events from the week.
2. Lyubomirsky et al. (2005) compared practising gratitude three times a week with once a week. They found that only those who carried out the exercise once a week were happier. This suggests overdoing the gratitude is not beneficial – perhaps because of habituation.
3. Seligman, Steen, Park and Peterson (2005) carried out a randomised, placebo-controlled study. They followed participants up 6 months after they had begun carrying out a simple gratitude exercise and found they were happier and less depressed than a control group. In this study, though, participants initially wrote about what they were grateful for every day for a week.