“Integrate gratitude into your daily life.”
It’s essential to find gratitude every day.
Gratitude means thanks and appreciation for all things. It’s the state of feeling grateful — a conscious, positive emotion one can express when feeling especially thankful for something, whether intangible or tangible.
Robert Emmons, in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good”, argues that gratitude has two key components:
- “First, it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received.”
- Second, people should “recognize that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves. … We acknowledge that other people—or even higher powers, if you’re of a spiritual mindset—gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives.”
“Gratitude is “an affirmation of goodness and a recognition that this goodness is sourced outside the self.” This doesn’t mean that life is perfect and peaceful, but when you look at life as a whole, gratitude encourages you to identify some amount of goodness and joy in your life.” Dr. Robert Emmons
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