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Count your blessings A new study by researchers at the Universities of California and Miami shows that people who consciously remind themselves every day of the things they are grateful for show marked improvements in mental health and some aspects of physical health, reports The Dallas Morning News. The results appear to be equally true for healthy college students and people with incurable diseases, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Compared with groups of subjects who counted hassles, such as "hard-to-find parking," grateful subjects felt better about their lives and more optimistic. The college students exercised more; the chronically ill adults reported sleeping longer and waking up refreshed. Being grateful was also superior to its distant cousin -- seeing oneself as better off than others. People who took pleasure in the troubles of others had better mental health than those who counted hassles, but worse than grateful