I grew up loving nature and eventually considered myself an environmentalist - it got exhausting when everyone around me always framed everything as a fight. Eventually I stopped putting myself around people like that and found those who framed things as solutions and challenges. They’re usually pretty quiet, and busy, literally finding solutions and implementing them! Thank you for sharing this view point - more people need to hear about it!
I taught high school and every Friday the first 15 minutes of class were spent on gratitude. In their notebooks they had a section for gratitude and they would write five things that occurred that week or that they felt that week, for which they were grateful. Then we went around the room and everyone shared one. I asked them to save their gratitude lists put them in their sock drawers and look at them again in 10 years. I hope that they did it.
When i started being grateful, focusing on love and prayer to my creator, a peace and happiness that is beyond understanding filled my life. I went from a depressed anxious wreck to feeling a tangible feeling of peace and joy every day and the more grateful I am the more happiness I feel. I LOVE YOU ALL ❤ une
I giggled a little when she said she was grateful for nurses who got the IVs in first try, I love how she managed to connect us with her experience and not only that recognize the lightness in those moments as well. Showing that she’s living and prospering not waiting to do so. So powerful and beautiful she even regarded all sides of feelings during moments like this or huge feelings. Totally a work of art :)
This is why it is so important to have empathetic health professionals, it is hard to feel gratitude when you feel like things are being done to you rather than feeling you are being cared for.
Made me tear up. My cousin went through brain cancer at 19. Gratitude is everything no matter the condition. Love is such a more powerful energy to heal your self with. God bless you on your journey🙏🏼💖😇
"If your life is more simple, then you are able to experience it more fully and more happily. If your mind is not constantly caught up in striving after things or chasing romance or trying to acquire wealth and advantage, you can begin to experience gratitude. ... This is a whole different way of being with life. It is being with life. Instead of racing through life trying to fulfill your wish list, you are now being with life." A quote from *Joy and Gratitude* - a teaching from *The New Message from God*
Wow, I really love this. I find myself resonating whenever I come across material from Marshall Summers. I really need to find out more about this wonderful, yet mysterious man. Thank you!
After some bad things happened in my life, I also had to teach myself gratitude in order to be able to move on, it's one of my main goals now to always see thee good in order to support myself. This should be applied everyday in every case, maybe also taught in school? I want a world full of this king of people!
From someone that had pain for 2 years I adopted mind body practises. Fostered love and gratitude in my body. 2 years of pain gone. So many people think this is quack but then that’s why so many people stay in pain. It’s hard to believe, I get it, I used to be on that side of the fence too, but the brain is powerful beyond belief. Buddhas brain is a great book to start with - it shows the neuroscience behind it all. Love and peace to all.
Dr. Costa is the most amazing professor I have had in my years of undergrad. She has such an amazing story and is truly the best professor I have ever had. So inspiring!
I could really feel your gratitude towards the medical team. What a beautiful and important message that you shared with people! I'm grateful for the message that you brought to me, and thank you so much 🙏❤️
Gratitude is a powerful force! I have spent the last several years focusing on all the great things going on in my life. (Daily) gratitude and thanksgiving has changed my life. I have spend at least 20 years of my life on depression medication. I no longer take these kinds of drugs. Life is precious and God is so faithful to help us move forward to a new and compelling future.
HUGE message for all. You're an inspiration and everything you said is True. I know it from personal experience. You got this, Christina. God bless and happy healing🙏💕
Thank you for a amazing positive teaching. I was healed by my Father in heaven after colon cancer st3. What I can relate to is a positive attitude. Chemo was not easy but it was a process I had to go through and thinking about it now, it never felt part of me. I always went for chemo with a smile, enjoying the wonderful company of medical staff. I know it is not that I was in control but Jesus, my Healer was. All praise to Him. I will definitely start blowing a kiss to my brain, dayly❤
Thank you, amen. Thank you amen is what we practice every night at dinner. It is a chance for everyone around the table to hold hands and say what they are grateful for.
Thank you for sharing your story. What a great message and scientific analysis. All of us watching this are kissing your brain in appreciation for your video.
You're truly gifted by the god or the spirit whatever you may believe in you definitely have it figured out and you think you're a survivor by many parts and you have much to teach people I'm very empathic so this brought me to tears and so much gratitude what I've been through I've had a traumatic cancer injury I'd passed away for quite a long time and pass the limit but I'm here and I've done better in the last 10 years and I ever would have so I'm very grateful for everything I have right now you have no idea I understood what you're saying I just need to kiss my brain now thank you
Thank you for sharing your journey to awareness and current practices of gratitude, Christina, and everyone commenting here. I've been instilling more gratitude practices from the book The Magic by Rhonda Byrne in my days and nights as well. I'd like to share two from the book, especially for channeling the magic of gratitude to physical well-being: Heart Magic and Magical Health. Feel grateful deeply like it's radiating from every beat of your heart. Give thanks for every organ and body part for its function and what each and everyone of them allows you to do. Thank you for another beautiful, healthy day! :)
Beautiful 🥲 thank you for sharing. I forget to be grateful some times even though there is so much in and around me to be grateful for. I will pick up my gratitude journal again 🙏🏼 thanks to you!
You are a superb human being and you will be a resilient person that I could quote refer my patients to learn from you! My positive thoughts for your well being!
wonderful experience, reflection and testimonial....Thank you, thank you, thank you..... a couple of years ago I realized that thankfulness and gratitude are a different sort of emotional experience, with the capacity to really change my life. I try to make it a practice every day....
This human being has gone so much into psychology that she became a devoted Buddhist without becoming a devoted Buddhist. I guess all paths lead to the same truth. It just has different names. Thank you for sharing your journey with me!
A beautiful message. Thank you. I have personally expunged religion from my life, however, so as not to throw the baby out with the bath water, I regularly practice one exercise that has, over several decades now, become indispensable to me. I regularly meditate upon gratitude. Like in the lyrics of an old Crowded House song, which a dearly departed friend of mine introduced me to many years ago, I remind myself often that I will love this life, even though I may never know why. And I will -as best as I can hope to be able- try to be sure that my very last thought, upon my very last breath, before I leave this mystery I’ve no memory of having ever requested in the first place, is the simple essence of gratitude. Because the way I see it, if there truly is another realm beyond this mortal world wherein I should hope to meet a divine and benevolent creator who might yet allow me a second life hereafter, it seems only naturally incumbent upon me to have already expressed by then my sincerest gratitude for the first one. -Phill, Las Vegas
Its great that youve figured out how gratitude affects the brain positively. But this gratitude is deserved by the One who created you, your brain, who guided you towards this positivity despite your troubling situation. Allahu Akbar Kabeerah wAlhamdulillahi Kaseera!
QUESTION - can gratitude actually be viewed on various scans? Can we see differences in the brains of grateful people? I had to watch this twice - based on the title and speaker credentials, I was hoping to see some analytical, quantitative measurements - is that possible?
I grew up loving nature and eventually considered myself an environmentalist - it got exhausting when everyone around me always framed everything as a fight. Eventually I stopped putting myself around people like that and found those who framed things as solutions and challenges. They’re usually pretty quiet, and busy, literally finding solutions and implementing them! Thank you for sharing this view point - more people need to hear about it!
can i join with you somewhere?
Busy and quiet finding solutions and in implementation...so true ! Not hanging out drinking, using drugs and complaining...
I taught high school and every Friday the first 15 minutes of class were spent on gratitude. In their notebooks they had a section for gratitude and they would write five things that occurred that week or that they felt that week, for which they were grateful. Then we went around the room and everyone shared one. I asked them to save their gratitude lists put them in their sock drawers and look at them again in 10 years. I hope that they did it.
This is such an amazing idea!! Not that the subject you were teaching wasn’t important, but this gratitude thing is absolutely life changing!!
This talk is a really beautiful reminder to stay grateful even in the hardest of circumstances. Made me tear up!
My gratitude for the day is to you:
I am thankful to you for sharing your incredible story and motivating me to look at the brighter side❤️
Everyone deserves to be loved. Love people regardless of their mental or physical condition ❤️❤️❤️
When i started being grateful, focusing on love and prayer to my creator, a peace and happiness that is beyond understanding filled my life. I went from a depressed anxious wreck to feeling a tangible feeling of peace and joy every day and the more grateful I am the more happiness I feel. I LOVE YOU ALL ❤ une
I giggled a little when she said she was grateful for nurses who got the IVs in first try, I love how she managed to connect us with her experience and not only that recognize the lightness in those moments as well. Showing that she’s living and prospering not waiting to do so. So powerful and beautiful she even regarded all sides of feelings during moments like this or huge feelings. Totally a work of art :)
This is why it is so important to have empathetic health professionals, it is hard to feel gratitude when you feel like things are being done to you rather than feeling you are being cared for.
"A body is not a battlefield" 🙌
Made me tear up. My cousin went through brain cancer at 19. Gratitude is everything no matter the condition. Love is such a more powerful energy to heal your self with. God bless you on your journey🙏🏼💖😇
"If your life is more simple, then you are able to experience it more fully and more happily. If your mind is not constantly caught up in striving after things or chasing romance or trying to acquire wealth and advantage, you can begin to experience gratitude.
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This is a whole different way of being with life. It is being with life. Instead of racing through life trying to fulfill your wish list, you are now being with life."
A quote from *Joy and Gratitude* - a teaching from *The New Message from God*
Thank you for this!
Wow, I really love this. I find myself resonating whenever I come across material from Marshall Summers. I really need to find out more about this wonderful, yet mysterious man. Thank you!
Love this !!!
Thanks Ivan
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After some bad things happened in my life, I also had to teach myself gratitude in order to be able to move on, it's one of my main goals now to always see thee good in order to support myself. This should be applied everyday in every case, maybe also taught in school? I want a world full of this king of people!
From someone that had pain for 2 years I adopted mind body practises. Fostered love and gratitude in my body. 2 years of pain gone. So many people think this is quack but then that’s why so many people stay in pain. It’s hard to believe, I get it, I used to be on that side of the fence too, but the brain is powerful beyond belief. Buddhas brain is a great book to start with - it shows the neuroscience behind it all. Love and peace to all.
Thank you. You have reminded me We have much to be grateful for, start focusing on that. I am going to start. Story is inspiring
Dr. Costa is the most amazing professor I have had in my years of undergrad. She has such an amazing story and is truly the best professor I have ever had. So inspiring!
I could really feel your gratitude towards the medical team. What a beautiful and important message that you shared with people!
I'm grateful for the message that you brought to me, and thank you so much 🙏❤️
I so needed to hear this perspective. I am sick of being told I’m a fighter and to keep fighting. Thank you ❤
Gratitude is a powerful force! I have spent the last several years focusing on all the great things going on in my life. (Daily) gratitude and thanksgiving has changed my life. I have spend at least 20 years of my life on depression medication. I no longer take these kinds of drugs. Life is precious and God is so faithful to help us move forward to a new and compelling future.
HUGE message for all. You're an inspiration and everything you said is True. I know it from personal experience. You got this, Christina. God bless and happy healing🙏💕
Thank you Christina Costa. I am grateful that you took the time to share this with us. You have taught me a great deal today.
Thank you for a amazing positive teaching. I was healed by my Father in heaven after colon cancer st3.
What I can relate to is a positive attitude. Chemo was not easy but it was a process I had to go through and thinking about it now, it never felt part of me. I always went for chemo with a smile, enjoying the wonderful company of medical staff. I know it is not that I was in control but Jesus, my Healer was. All praise to Him. I will definitely start blowing a kiss to my brain, dayly❤
Thank you, amen. Thank you amen is what we practice every night at dinner. It is a chance for everyone around the table to hold hands and say what they are grateful for.
My 17 your niece was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It is good to hear a way to channel your energy in a positive way through life's trials.
Such a beautiful approach to life🥺♥️
Thank you Christina! You are an inspiration to many...may God bless you and keep u in His care.
Thank you for sharing your story. What a great message and scientific analysis. All of us watching this are kissing your brain in appreciation for your video.
You're truly gifted by the god or the spirit whatever you may believe in you definitely have it figured out and you think you're a survivor by many parts and you have much to teach people I'm very empathic so this brought me to tears and so much gratitude what I've been through I've had a traumatic cancer injury I'd passed away for quite a long time and pass the limit but I'm here and I've done better in the last 10 years and I ever would have so I'm very grateful for everything I have right now you have no idea I understood what you're saying I just need to kiss my brain now thank you
Thank you for sharing your journey to awareness and current practices of gratitude, Christina, and everyone commenting here.
I've been instilling more gratitude practices from the book The Magic by Rhonda Byrne in my days and nights as well. I'd like to share two from the book, especially for channeling the magic of gratitude to physical well-being: Heart Magic and Magical Health. Feel grateful deeply like it's radiating from every beat of your heart. Give thanks for every organ and body part for its function and what each and everyone of them allows you to do.
Thank you for another beautiful, healthy day! :)
Beautiful 🥲 thank you for sharing. I forget to be grateful some times even though there is so much in and around me to be grateful for. I will pick up my gratitude journal again 🙏🏼 thanks to you!
I am grateful for watching this inspiring talk ☺️
Thank you Christina😍
You are a superb human being and you will be a resilient person that I could quote refer my patients to learn from you! My positive thoughts for your well being!
I'm so grateful for this video. Amazing lesson, something we can start practicing right now. ❤ Thank you Christina 😊
shes lovely. sending her positive vibes and prayers. wishing her good health & long happy life ❤️
I am grateful to hear your story. God bless you.
You are such a bright women and an inspiration. Wishing you well.❤
Thank you so much for this uplifting message.I wish you good luck and great healing with your onward journey x
wonderful experience, reflection and testimonial....Thank you, thank you, thank you..... a couple of years ago I realized that thankfulness and gratitude are a different sort of emotional experience, with the capacity to really change my life. I try to make it a practice every day....
Im greatful that you shared this with us, greatful that TED gave you a platform to do so and greatful that the universe is so wonderfully ironic ♡
This human being has gone so much into psychology that she became a devoted Buddhist without becoming a devoted Buddhist. I guess all paths lead to the same truth. It just has different names.
Thank you for sharing your journey with me!
Gratitude is something that gives me power to live every day happily 😊
A beautiful message. Thank you. I have personally expunged religion from my life, however, so as not to throw the baby out with the bath water, I regularly practice one exercise that has, over several decades now, become indispensable to me. I regularly meditate upon gratitude. Like in the lyrics of an old Crowded House song, which a dearly departed friend of mine introduced me to many years ago, I remind myself often that I will love this life, even though I may never know why. And I will -as best as I can hope to be able- try to be sure that my very last thought, upon my very last breath, before I leave this mystery I’ve no memory of having ever requested in the first place, is the simple essence of gratitude. Because the way I see it, if there truly is another realm beyond this mortal world wherein I should hope to meet a divine and benevolent creator who might yet allow me a second life hereafter, it seems only naturally incumbent upon me to have already expressed by then my sincerest gratitude for the first one. -Phill, Las Vegas
this was a great way to start my day. Keep thriving!
No privacy at all.
Thank you so much. You are truly amazing.
Thank you for sharing your story with such a grateful attitude.
Its great that youve figured out how gratitude affects the brain positively. But this gratitude is deserved by the One who created you, your brain, who guided you towards this positivity despite your troubling situation.
Allahu Akbar Kabeerah wAlhamdulillahi Kaseera!
Best Regards from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
This is definitely a great Ted Talk and will deserve more views! Wonderful!
In everything give thanks.
I would like to say if you put the captions on that will be very helpful to the audience who not good at English
Loved your talk and the attitude of gratitude. Stay blessed and I hope more and more people can see and learn from you.
OMG QUEEN?! i found u on tiktok! and then got this notif! i’ve known u for foreverrrr
Really inspiring! Wish you more strength and power to empower others who feel the same!
Thank you so much for the lesson
Thank you.
Thank you Christina.
Thank you for sharing, Dr. Costa.
So many things in life are like salt in the soup.... you only realise once its gone.... and than you become grateful.
a lot of the times
Thanks for sharing this amazing knowledge.
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Thank you for sharing your story. God bless you 🙏
You are a thriver! Thank you for sharing your uplifting story and your knowledge about gratitude and the brain! I’ll be kissing my brain from now on!
Got it thanks for watching me in my therapy sessions. This is why I am angry.
@@feathers8529 I don’t think I understand your response. Can you explain?
@@PhoebeFayRuthLouise you don’t know the James Bond character Paul Forever Really Lies?
@@feathers8529 Oh, sorry, I haven’t watched any James Bond movies. Thanks for clarifying!
Thank you for shared your story ❤️🙏 kisses from Brazil
If you think about it, it proves the principal of some religions to be true, such as Buddhism. Fun and inspiring speech and thank you for sharing!
So beautiful and inspirational 🌸
Great video! Good for you and greatfull to hear this video
Psalm 136:1 says "Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. His love endures forever."
I knew gratitude improved lives, but I never knew it could change lives that. Kiss your own brains lads!
Thanks so much
thx for your sharing, wish you a good life.
Kissing it now and feeling gratitude for you sharing your story.
Wow, I am so grateful for your talk, it is profoundly inspiring. I am kissing my brain and sending a kiss to yours.
Top TED Lesson 4Change. How much can we do with our limited BRAIN-POWER? No limit
Thank you much. Refuah Shalayma, (complete recovery, in Hebrew)
Awesome!!! Thank you!!
U R on the right path!!!
Thanks Ma'am
Thank you
☮🧠☮ We are grateful for YOU - Thank You 💚
this is such a nice talk
Thank you😍
Excellent!!!!
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 thank you for sharing!
Excellent speech 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I loved it!
God bless you
She is beautiful❤️
So inspiring ❤️ Thank you
I'm so thankful that I can write this comment.
Que amor!
🙏🙇♀️🙏🙇♀️🙏🙇♀️💪
Its called Letting Go.... Read David hawkins Book Letting Go.... its the only way. GREAT TALK!
God with you
It has come to a point that helping hands couldn’t save a permanently damaged brain with the mix-ups of the fallible thoughts.
Amazing woman :)
Gratitude--the cornerstone of Islamic belief....subhanAllah....Dear you are being led, through science to truth. Inshallah you get there :)
I love connecting psychology to Islam. Allah truly knows what's best for us.
Sangat menakjubkan
Epic!!!
QUESTION - can gratitude actually be viewed on various scans? Can we see differences in the brains of grateful people?
I had to watch this twice - based on the title and speaker credentials, I was hoping to see some analytical, quantitative measurements - is that possible?
Gratidão, Gratidão e Gratidão! por estar em paz com o corpo! 4779
Why is TED censoring Mikhailia Peterson’s talk?
I just kissed my non-existing brain
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This is a reposted vid on Ted. Also, it's weird they blurred out the faces of those kids on this vid and not the other one from 8 months ago o_O
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