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Newswise WASHINGTON - Recognizing and giving thanks for the positive aspects of life can result in improved mental, and ultimately physical, health in patients with asymptomatic heart failure, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

"We found that more gratitude in these patients was associated with better mood, better sleep, less fatigue and lower levels of inflammatory biomarkers related to cardiac health," said lead author Paul J. Mills, PhD, professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego. The study was published in the journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice.

Gratitude is part of a wider outlook on life that involves noticing and appreciating the positive aspects of life. It can be attributed to an external source (e.g., a pet), another person or a non-human (e.g., God). It is also commonly an aspect of spirituality, said Mills. Because previous research has shown that people who considered themselves more spiritual had greater overall well-being, including physical health, Mills and his colleagues examined the role of both spirituality and gratitude on potential health markers in patients.

The study involved 186 men and women who had been diagnosed with asymptomatic (Stage B) heart failure for at least three months. Stage B consists of patients who have developed structural heart disease (e.g., have had a heart attack that damaged the heart) but do not show symptoms of heart failure (e.g., shortness of breath or fatigue). This stage is an important therapeutic window for halting disease progression and improving quality of life since Stage B patients are at high risk of progressing to symptomatic (Stage C) heart failure, where risk of death is five times higher, according to Mills.

Using standard psychological tests, the researchers obtained scores for gratitude and spiritual well-being. They then compared those scores with the patients' scores for depressive symptom severity, sleep quality, fatigue, self-efficacy (belief in one's ability to deal with a situation) and inflammatory markers. They found higher gratitude scores were associated with better mood, higher quality sleep, more self-efficacy and less inflammation. Inflammation can often worsen heart failure.

What surprised the researchers about the findings, though, was that gratitude fully or partially accounted for the beneficial effects of spiritual well-being.

"We found that spiritual well-being was associated with better mood and sleep, but it was the gratitude aspect of spirituality that accounted for those effects, not spirituality per se," said Mills.

To further test their findings, the researchers asked some of the patients to write down three things for which they were thankful most days of the week for eight weeks. Both groups continued to receive regular clinical care during that time.

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Replica of "Neanderthal and Child," part of the traveling show.

WYCKOFF The Wyckoff Public Library has been selected to host a special month-long exhibit and lecture series on human evolution organized by the Smithsonian and American Library Association.

The traveling exhibit, "Exploring Human Origins: What Does It Mean to Be Human?," begins a two-year tour this month to 19 libraries nationwide and is scheduled to stop Oct. 16 to Nov. 12, 2016, in the township.

"We are the only library in New Jersey and in the New York metropolitan area to host this engaging exhibit," said Mary Witherell, library director. "The next closest location is Norwich, Conn., 143 miles from Wyckoff."

"Exploring Human Origins: What Does It Mean to Be Human?" will highlight key milestones in the journey of human evolution and explain how humans developed over time, from walking upright and the earliest known technologies to, brain enlargement, symbolic language development, the origin of agriculture and the creation of complex societies.

The exhibition will feature replicas and images of specimens from the "David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins" that opened in 2010 at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

In November, Witherell applied to host the1,200-square-foot exhibition, which that includes more than 40 educational panels, interactive kiosks, hands-on displays, videos, 3-D skull casts and presentations on groundbreaking research in the scientific study of human origins.

Applications were reviewed by peer public librarians and representatives from the National Museum of Natural History and ALAs Public Programs Office.

"I believe the strength of our application was based on our past performance of hosting the 2012 Big Read (Edgar Allan Poe) which included 53 specific programs," said Witherell.

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As a child living in a rural area in eastern Tibet, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje recalls a natural environment that was pristine and untarnished by modern development.

It was there, he said during his Chubb Fellowship Lecture at Yale on April 7, that he first experienced a feeling of intimate connection with and respect for the natural world.

Where I was born, we regarded and experienced our environment as a living system, a living being: The mountains, the sources of water were all regarded as the dwelling places of what I would call holy spirits of various kinds, the Karmapa told the packed audience in Woolsey Hall. We therefore respected every aspect of the environment as part of a living system. We didnt wash our clothes or even our hands in flowing water sources. We didnt cast any kind of garbage or any kind of other pollutant into our fire in our hearth. We regarded the entire environment as innately sacred.

Today, the Buddhist leader hopes to inspire others to see the interconnectedness of humans and their environment, and discussed that theme in his Chubb Lecture on Compassion in Action: Buddhism and the Environment.

Addressing the audience through an interpreter, the Karmapa decried the human-contrived distinction between their own being and the external world and described environmental stewardship as a moral responsibility.

For us to acquire or eat any food, have clothes to wear, or even to have the bodies we do, all of these require the interconnectedness of many things and many people within the environment, he said. The value of understanding interdependence in this regard is that we often feel at some distance from our environment. We divide the world into subject and object, and we feel that the external environment is an object separated from us by some kind of boundary and some distance from ourselves as subjects. We need to dissolve this artificial boundary and decrease the distance from ourselves and our environment.

In Tibet, he told his audience, people compare the interconnectedness of humans and their environment to a container and its contents where one cannot be separated from the other. To think of our interconnectedness with the environment in those terms, he said, makes it easier to understand our responsibility for protecting it.

We need to acknowledge that our environment can affect us, and we can also affect our environment, he commented. Some people have the idea that the environment is so vast and so primordial that nothing we do is actually going to affect it. Unfortunately, thats been proven not to be the case, and we need to begin to acknowledge the aspect of interdependence that is our effect on the environment even as the environment affects us.

Having scientific knowledge of the symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment is not enough, however, to make people feel protective of all that surrounds them, the 29-year-old Karmapa acknowledged.

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