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Gratitude: Personal And Interpersonal
- The year gone by has made practising gratitude popular, promoting it as an instrument to enhance one’s personal wellbeing.
- Gratitude is a complex and interpersonal emotion that feels incomplete by itself and has to have an addressee, a specific person other than oneself.
- Being thankful for your own health, luck, good looks is a positive and beneficial action but is a feeling that can be described as appreciation and is generally personal.
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Definition Of Gratitude
The 18th-century American preacher Jonathan Edwards defined gratitude as a natural affection felt toward another person who has benefited us.
Gratitude is generally interpersonal and can induce positive feelings even toward our foes.
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Benefits Of Gratitude
Positive psychologists have credited gratitude (both personal and interpersonal) with:
- Improving our emotional wellbeing.
- Promoting prosocial behaviour.
- Helping us regulate our emotions.
- Relieving symptoms of asthma.
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Gratitude Over The Ages
- In 56 CE, the Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote a comprehensive book on gratitude, called On Benefits.
- The gifted philosopher treats the feeling of gratitude as a virtue that one needs to cultivate and implement socially.
- In his book, gratitude is defined as a glue that holds society together and makes it thrive.
- More than just acting out and reciprocating the benefits received, it is crucial to actually feel the gratitude from within.
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The Binding Aspect Of Gifts
- A gift has certain psychological aspects attached to it, making it more than just a simple transaction.
- A gift binds the recipient to the giver, and is seen as a burden. The word ‘grateful’ can also be translated in the Hebrew language to ‘A prisoner of thankfulness’.
- A gift can also have a flavour of humiliation, like when a captive person or a hostage is provided with a cup of tea.
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