Andrew Huberman· PhD
What's really cool about this study also is that the interventions are only five minutes long. It's incredible, five minutes long.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
What's really cool about this study also is that the interventions are only five minutes long. It's incredible, five minutes long.
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one can shift these circuits in the direction that I think most people would like; which is more sense of wellbeing and motivation and less resentment and fear literally.
an effective gratitude practice is one that can rapidly shift, not just the activation of these circuits in your brain for pro-social behaviors, but also activation of particular circuits in your heart and in your lungs and the other organs of your body, such that you can get into a reproducible state of gratitude each time.
what they found is that a repeated gratitude practice could change the resting state functional connectivity in emotion and motivation-related brain regions. ... a regular gratitude practice could shift the functional conductivity of emotion pathways in ways that made anxiety and fear circuits less likely to be active, and circuits for feelings of wellbeing, but also motivation to be much more active.
repeated gratitude practice changes the way that your brain circuits work. And it also changes the way in which your heart and your brain interact.
If you have a good gratitude practice and you repeat it regularly, you reduce the fear, anxiety circuits, you increase the efficacy of the positive emotion, feel good circuits, and the circuits associated with motivation and pursuit are actually enhanced as well.
But gratitude practices provided they are the effective ones and they're performed regularly, can shift those circuits, such that we are happier on average, even when we are not performing those practices.
And so, this study really points to the fact that it's a twofer. If you have a good gratitude practice, and you repeat it regularly,
Because what they found was a regular gratitude practice could shift the functional connectivity of emotion pathways in ways that made anxiety and fear circuits less likely to be active, and circuits for feelings of well-being, but also motivation, to be much more active.