Happy Thanksgiving to our USA listeners!! And Happy Thursday to our global community :) Today, we are gifting you with a mindfulness meditation on cultivating joy. We invite you to take a brief pause in your day to tap in and tune in to yourself. You deserve it.

We’re so excited to talk, today, about the effects of what we consume and what the choices about what we let in on a daily basis have on how we feel. We want to start by giving idea credit to listener El, who DMed us suggesting an episode about “how what you consume affects your wellness: food, opinions, exercise, ideas”.

Gratitude has been shown to increase self-esteem, empathy and compassion, and even improve mood. It can decrease blood pressure and the stress hormone cortisol, which directly impacts stress levels. Physiologically, gratitude can positively change your brain. (You read that right!)

Cultivating joy can seem difficult, especially after more than a year of social isolation, political turmoil, sickness, sadness, and other challenges to your well-being. We get it. But did you know that showing gratitude for others is actually a tool you can use to reconnect with lost joy.