Be Thankful

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Dr. Robert Emmons suggests a number of practices that will have you grateful in no time :

• Keep a daily gratitude journal in which you make note of all the good things and the gifts that have come your way that day.
• Promise yourself to practice gratitude regularly.
• Focus on the good things that others have done for you. This makes us realize that we are loved.
• Learn to develop a language of gratitude rather than a language of complaint.
• Use your senses to appreciate the small gifts at the moment---the smile of a child, the smell of your first cup of coffee in the morning, the beauty of a sunset.
• Take grateful actions. Smile, perform random acts of kindness, help a stranger.

If most people engaged in these practices on a regular basis, the world might be a much happier---and healthier---place. (from Advanced, 11/ 09)