The benefits of hope.
Hope may benefit physical health by boosting immune function and decreasing pain, research suggests. Hope is linked to lower levels of anxiety and depression, and it may help protect against those conditions. Being hopeful does not mean forcing yourself to be positive. Instead, it involves acknowledging a full, realistic picture of the world. In Psychology Today.
Hope is a big word, so big in fact that we are so in tune with it to even survive. Just try to imagine that you never had any hope life would be good whatsoever — the whole chaos it would bring socially, how we would feel all the time, how we would react to this constant hopelessness.
Hope in Portuguese is “esperança”, which comes from the verb “esperar” which means “to wait”. I’ve been learning that hope is as poetic as it is a manifesting conductor — like a manifestation maestro. First, because it implies detachment from any outcome, and second because we believe that everything will be okay — according to our common and good sense — and third because we are trusting in unconditional in divine timing.
Hope is like this major thing in recovery from anything — the lack of hope breeds illness and discontentment. Hope does not mean unconditional positivity — it means we are actually aligned for our own good and that of others. Hope is a conduit for miracles, to believe the impossible, to hope for a better world for example, when we feel hopeless about it, opens the door to seeing the magic of life, and how everything is actually better than what we thought.
To believe in hope is actually what makes us question if Mother Earth doesn’t have the ability to take care of herself, and we stop diminishing her to fit our ideas of far superior humanity than what it actually is. At the same time, to have hope for humanity is to believe in the good of humanity. To see humanity through the eyes of love.
Isn’t hope so poetic?
The biggest benefit of hope is joy and gratitude. It’s the feeling that whatever is going on outside, there’s peace within. The “this too shall pass” emphasized to a thousand.
Another benefit is the ability to believe in love. Love as in the most powerful force in the World. That love does win it all, that love does conquer all. And hence is to believe in ourselves.
A great benefit of hope is patience and calmness, the tranquility of knowing life can and will solve a lot of our problems if we just align with hoping and doing something about it.
Hope is the belief in future generations and the love for cherishing the growth of children and of the ones doing the work for the future of the Earth’s children.
Having hope is the ability to build a better world. To know we are capable of such.
