The Power of Gratitude
by: Christopher H. Loo, MD-PhD
Welcome back to another weekly newsletter!
Hope you guys had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, as it occurs in late November with the leaves changing, cool, crisp air, shorter days, and falling temperatures.
It’s a time to look back on the year, reflect, and plan forwards.
This may not be a favorite time for many, but it focuses on the importance of family, relationships, significant others, and being grateful for what we have around us.
Despite what is happening in the world around us, uncertainty, calamity, dysfunction, I am constantly reminded of taking a bigger perspective.
Things could be a lot worse. We just make things out to be worse than they actually are. When we zoom out and take perspective- looking at opportunities, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom to create our own futures, we really don’t have much to complain about. It also reminds me when I get into comparison mode to zoom out, and focus on my individual thought patterns, emotions, and habits, and create boundaries over what I can and can not control.
Despite our external circumstances (which we can not control), we can control our inner states. By accessing deeper…