{"id":567,"date":"2017-07-31T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findaupair.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2017-07-31T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:02:54","slug":"improve-your-mood-using-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/improve-your-mood-using-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve your mood using gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Research shows that a bad mood can be shifted with a simple appreciation storm. During the day, you can use this practice to improve your mood, anytime you want. See a few tips on how to do it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank people you meet during the day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The person that served your coffee? The one that took care of your children? Show them a little gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before sleep write down three things you&#8217;re grateful for<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists say that people who do that tend to get happy almost immediately and stay this way for a long time as long as they continue with this practice. So, your child gave you a hard time today? Think about three things that he did and made you appreciate him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Express gratitude for what life gave you until now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the day, you can breathe deeply and show gratitude for the things you have achieved so far. Making this exercise can be really helpful to make you more positive.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how hard your day was, there will always be something to be grateful about. Shift your mood and surpass any challenge during the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Research shows that a bad mood can be shifted with a simple appreciation storm. During the day, you can use this practice to improve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}