Are you thankful for all the wonderful Christmas gifts you received? Thankfulness doesn’t just improve your emotional health, it impacts your PHYSICAL health as well.

Studies show measurable effects on mood neurotransmitters, reproductive hormones, social bonding hormones, cognitive and pleasure related neurotransmitters, inflammatory and immune systems, stress hormones, heart rhythms, blood pressure, and blood sugar.
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It is a late hour. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I sit listening to Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise sung by Anna Moffo, which I would listen to on nights when I felt that the visitors were coming. They would cast such a spell over me on those nights, with their strangeness and their longing. They seemed far from home, but not physically; rather, from a home that is deep in the heart. They were seekers, looking for something they had lost, which was why, after my initial disquiet, I felt such a closeness to them.
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