The Reese Report: 26-11-2025,
Neuroscientists find that the Medial prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex are involved in the self-perception of one’s life path, positive growth, motivation, and emotional intelligence. All the innate tools necessary to live a thriving and abundant life. And fMRI studies show us that when people express internal gratitude, bio-electric activation occurs in these same areas.
Like an on/off switch, gratitude connects with the brain’s reward center and creates a feeling of peace. It puts us in a state of mind that allows for better assessment and calm response, even while under pressure. Gratitude effects the brain’s default mode network, or DMN, which is involved in self identity, morality, and social relationships. With gratitude, the DMN becomes a more focused picture, which allows one to see more connections and opportunities as they occur in real time.
Gratitude also improves heart rate variability which gives more control over the parasympathetic nervous system. This allows for better impulse control, which inevitable leads to making better decisions. Gratitude also cultivates better sleep quality and lower inflammation.
Gratitude not only feels good, it brings good things. No matter if you think it’s merely perception or coincidence, or if you think it’s luck, karma, or grace. Whatever you want to call it, there is a predictable cause and effect when you practice gratitude, your life inexplicably changes for the best. This is a law of nature that has written about in most religions and esoteric traditions.
In the Torah there is Psalms 50:23,