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“Gratitude helps us recover from loss and trauma,” says Robert. “It helps us to deal with the slow drip of everyday stress as well as the massive personal upheavals in the face of suffering and pain and loss and trials and tribulations. Gratitude is absolutely essential, it’s a part of our psychological immune system.”
Just like our regular immune system, the psychological immune system helps us fight off the effects of harmful emotional experiences. In his work, Robert has found that people who do things like write a gratitude list sleep better and experience lower levels of stress hormones like cortisol.
The very depths of sorrow – it’s hard to contemplate the pain ending, let alone imagine that some day you might be able to experience happiness again.
‘We’re going to write gratitude lists.’ And I was like, I don’t want to.”
I’m not suggesting that a gratitude list makes everything right, or that the grief and sadness of the scale experienced by someone will quickly go away. It can’t. But even in the worst of times, taking time for gratitude can give us a little distance from the pain.
I just wanted to share Maya’s insight that even when we are at our lowest, even when we feel at our saddest and most helpless, there are still tiny positive steps we can take to care for ourselves.
「感謝は、 “損失” や “トラウマ” からの回復を促す」。(by ロバート博士)
『感謝は、日々のストレスが徐々に蓄積されるだけでなく、苦しみや痛み、喪失、試練や苦難に直面した時 、パニック(大混乱)なることにも対処できるのです。
“感謝” は絶対に必要なもので、心理的な免疫システムの一部なのです』。
通常の免疫システムと同じように、心理的な免疫システムは、有害な感情経験の影響を防ぐのに役立ちます。ロバート博士は、感謝リストを書くことをしている人はよく眠れ、コルチゾールなどのストレスホルモンのレベルが低いことを発見したのです。
悲しみのどん底にいる時、心の痛みが終わることを想像するのは難しいし、
ましてや、いつかまた幸せを体験できるかもしれないと想像するのは難しいのです。
(Yale 大学 心理学者 ローリー・サントス博士からの引用)