• Boosts our immune system – helps you live longer
• Helps build healthy and harmonious relationships
• Better coping skills during hardships and times of stress
• For youth: enhance ability to cope with school pressures
• For older adults: promotes better sleep and lessens the feelings of sadness.

Big or small…notice things to be grateful for in your day.

• use your senses to experience gratitude
• spend quality time with friends, family & pets
• be grateful toward your physical body – nourish it and be kind to it
• encourage yourself with positive thoughts
• cultivate gratitude in spirituality
• write down 3 good things that happened in your day
• practice kindness – help out a friend or neighbour
• show your gratitude to others – thank someone mentally
• write a thank you note.