By Minda Zetlin
UC Berkeley's Emiliana Simon-Thomas says "Gratitude 1-2-3" has big benefits for both you and those you thank.
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During Thanksgiving week, people around the United States express gratitude for the bounty of their lives, but many may not realize that in doing so, they're also improving the quality of their health and increasing their life expectancies.
Usually, when we talk about gratitude, we express gratitude for our blessings.
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Cultivating gratitude doesn’t cost any money and it certainly doesn’t take much time, but the benefits are enormous.
For most of my life, I clung to the belief that I wasn’t happy because I “just wasn’t wired that way.”
Lynne Twist, a philanthropist and author of The Soul of Money, believes that generosity flows out of gratitude, as she explains in this short film by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg.
An act of gratitude is a living whole. To superimpose on its organic flow a mental grid like a series of “steps” will always be somewhat arbitrary. And yet, for the sake of practice, such a delineation can be helpful.
A Benedictine monk for over 60 years, Steindl-Rast was formed by 20th-century catastrophes. He calls joy “the happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” And his gratefulness is not an easy gratitude or thanksgiving — but a full-blooded, reality-based practice and choice.
Start your day with reverence for the sun, and harness its life-giving energy with Surya Namaskar.
Although it’s vital to not turn away from what needs attention it’s also important to reflect on what’s good in our lives.