Research into gratitude has skyrocketed in the past 10 years, finding that a daily gratitude habit can have an enduring positive effect on our mental health, happiness, and physical well-being.
An article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from 2003 looked at three different studies in which participants were asked to write down what they were grateful for on a weekly or daily basis. Consistently, those groups reported greater well-being than control groups, across a number of dimensions.
In another study, published in Personality and Individual Differences in 2013, researchers found that an individual’s gratitude as measured in surveys was a very strong predictor of physical health….