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True gratitude is a communal emotion, not a wellness practice | Psyche Ideas
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Being thankful and showing it to the others will enable you to live a happier life while making sure the ones around you feel happy as well. Gratitude is a sure key to becoming aware of how bea...
Showing gratitude whenever life is easy is a piece of cake. On the other hand, being thankful during your hardest times is a matter of practice.
It is never easy to feel and show gratitude when things do not go well. However, acknowledging the small joys of life or being kind to others when your world is crashing down can prove extremely efficient when it comes to leading a happier life.
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Aristotle argued that we become what we habitually do. If we spend our days thinking of everything that has gone poorly and how dark our future appears, we can think ourselves into...
One way to cultivate a disposition of gratitude is to give thanks regularly - at the beginning of the day, at meals, and at the end of the day.
Holidays, weeks, seasons, and years can be punctuated with thanks - grateful prayer, writing thank-you notes, and keeping a gratitude journal.
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Gratitude, the feeling of being thankful, is known to increase wellbeing, with studies showing that it:
Gratitude is a natural feeling humans are equipped with, and the problem arises when there is more of ingratitude in society.
To have the capacity to feel gratitude, you must be able to receive and accept something helpful or good from another person. It helps if this is something you see happening around you from infancy, so you can learn how it works.