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It's human nature to dwell on the negative.

Feeling grateful can have a powerfully positive effect on our lives, health, and well-being.

You can experiment with ways of incorporating a gratitude practice into your daily life.

It’s our human nature to dwell on the negative. This tendency is called the “negativity bias ,” or the propensity to focus on problems, annoyances, and injustices in our lives rather than focusing on being grateful for the events or people in our lives that are working and we feel good about. Evolutionary psychologists believe we developed this negativity bias for our survival—our brains developed a system that gives more weight to negative information, thus prioritizing threats such as predators and natural disasters. However, while this bias may hav

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