{"id":458,"date":"2011-11-30T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2011-11-29T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T01:04:47","slug":"more-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/more-on-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote about thankfulness<\/a> a while back, but I hadn’t seen this piece from the New York Times<\/a> about the health benefits associated with gratitude:<\/p>\n

Compared with a control group, the people keeping the gratitude journal were more optimistic and felt happier. They reported fewer physical problems and spent more time working out.<\/p>\n

Further benefits were observed in a study of polio survivors and other people with neuromuscular problems. The ones who kept a gratitude journal reported feeling happier and more optimistic than those in a control group, and these reports were corroborated by observations from their spouses. These grateful people also fell asleep more quickly at night, slept longer and woke up feeling more refreshed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Think about that: the Bible tells you<\/a> to do something that will make you more optimistic and feel happier, that will help you get to sleep quicker, sleep longer, and wake up feeling more refreshed!<\/p>\n

That’s in the Bible! It’s not<\/em> just about drudgery imposed on us by a mean-spirited cosmic killjoy. In fact, it’s almost like our heavenly Father knows how to give good gifts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote about thankfulness a while back, but I hadn’t seen this piece from the New York Times about the health benefits associated with gratitude: Compared with a control group, the people keeping the gratitude journal were more optimistic and felt happier. They reported fewer physical problems and spent more time working out. Further benefits … Continue reading »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[150,663,226,49,674,289,290],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gratitude","tag-health","tag-nytimes","tag-science","tag-thankfulness","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}