TY - JOUR AU - Bryan, Stephanie AU - Hamilton, Maryellen PY - 2024 DA - 2024/01/10 TI - An Overview of Gratitude as a Mind-Body-Spirit Practice in Optimizing Health and Human Functioning JO - OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine SP - 008 VL - 09 IS - 01 AB - This paper provides an overview of gratitude as a concept and as a mind-body-spirit practice, impacting health and human functioning throughout the lifespan, that can be integrated into daily life to great benefit at no cost. Current society is rife with increases in stress, anxiety, depression, lifestyle-related diseases, and social isolation. The practice of gratitude and its interrelated pro-social, health-enhancing, resilience-building effects suggest that promoting gratitude from childhood through adulthood may provide much-needed, accessible reinforcement towards optimal health and wellbeing.KeywordGratitude; health; resilience SN - 2573-4393 UR - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.2401008 DO - 10.21926/obm.icm.2401008 ID - Bryan2024 ER -