Giving Thanks: Good and Good for You
Science counts the health benefits of counting your blessings.
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11/22/12
Although gratitude is nominally central to Thanksgiving, for many folks, the focus is more on food, football and defusing or at least deflecting family feuds. Being truly thankful, however, is strongly linked with both mental and physical health—and cultivating it can help relieve stress, depression, addictions and other afflictions.
Many of us may critique AA from time to time, but the gratitude list, and the emphasis on counting your blessings, is powerful and important medicine.
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