Gratitude and the New Year...
The human brain is complex and interesting, to say the least. Reading about the neuroscience of happiness one learns about the brains “negativity bias” which is our brains tendency to look for, respond to, and store negative information over positive information. While this “feature” of our brain served as a mechanism to keep our ancestors alert and safe, today our tendency to focus on the negative leaves us feeling guilty about things we haven’t done, and ruminative over sma