Practicing gratitude can have positive effects on your mental health, benefiting your relationship with others, increasing self-confidence, improving your immune system, along with contributing to your community. Explore ways you can practice gratitude in your day to day life, and find appreciation in the little things. Your capacity for gratitude isn’t difficult but takes practice.

1. Keep a Gratitude Journal: Remind yourself of the good things in your life and the impact they have had.
2. Remember the bad: Being grateful in the moment helps us remember the hard times we have experienced in the past. In the contrast between the good and bad we can experience gratefulness.
3. Share your gratitude with others: Expressing gratitude to others can strengthen your relationships.
4. Ask yourself three questions: Reflect on your relationships with others such as parents, friends, siblings, co-workers, children, and partners using these three questions: “What have I received from __?”, “What have I given to __?”, and “What troubles and difficulty have I caused?”
5. Come to your senses: Gain appreciation for all things we come in to contact with as a human by using your five senses (touch, see, smell, taste, hear).