How Gratitude May Affect the Heart and Brain

Well, when you're grateful, your heart starts to beat in a more

rhythmic way that

causes the arteries in your heart literally to swell.

When you actually feel gratitude, there's a physiological component

that takes

place where your heart feels full.

And when energy or blood makes it to the heart, it's a different consciousness.

It's a different level of awareness than when you're feeling resentful or you're

feeling impatient. We saw that when a person's feeling gratitude, once

energy makes it to the heart, somehow it begins to move to the brain.

And if you would imagine, like, grabbing a big sheet and going like this,

it's almost like the heart is causing this beautiful pattern of

energy

moving to the brain, causes the brain to move into these

beautiful alpha brainwave

states. That is that state of imagination.

So we teach people then to feel grateful for things that they haven't had

yet, as well as the things that they have in their life,

and it tends to produce

profound changes in their biology.