Six Habits of Highly Grateful People - Greater Good
2013年11月20日 · Saying ‘thank you’ to a person, your brain registers that something good has happened and that you are more richly enmeshed in a meaningful social community. ## 5. They *thank* outside the box. Grateful people are habitually specific. They don’t say, “I love you because you’re just so wonderfully wonderful, you!”.
How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain - Greater Good
2017年6月6日 · Be patient and remember that the benefits of gratitude might take time to kick in. 4. Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain. About three months after the psychotherapy sessions began, we took some of the people who wrote gratitude letters and compared them with those who didn’t do any writing.
Why Is Gratitude So Hard for Some People? - Greater Good
2018年5月10日 · 3. Personality pitfalls. Our genes and our brains aren’t the end of the story; certain personality factors can also act as barriers to gratitude. In particular, envy, materialism, narcissism, and cynicism can be thought of as “ thieves of thankfulness.”.
How Gratitude Can Help You Through Hard Times - Greater Good
2013年5月13日 · In the face of brokenness, gratitude has the power to heal. In the face of despair, gratitude has the power to bring hope. In other words, gratitude can help us cope with hard times. Don’t get me wrong. I am not suggesting that gratitude will come easily or naturally in a crisis. It’s easy to feel grateful for the good things.
10 Ways to Become More Grateful - Greater Good
2010年11月17日 · Grateful motions include smiling, saying thank you, and writing letters of gratitude. 10. Think Outside the Box. If you want to make the most out of opportunities to flex your gratitude muscles, you must creatively look for new situations and circumstances in which to feel grateful. Image ©Greg Sargent
What Gets in the Way of Gratitude? - Greater Good
2013年11月12日 · Reining in entitlement and embracing gratitude and humility is spiritually and psychologically liberating. Gratitude is the recognition that life owes me nothing and all the good I have is a gift. It is not a getting of what we are entitled to. My eyes are a gift. So is my wife, my freedom, my job, and my every breath.
Gratitude Definition | What Is Gratitude - Greater Good
2024年9月19日 · Because gratitude encourages us not only to appreciate gifts but to repay them (or pay them forward), the sociologist Georg Simmel called it “the moral memory of mankind.”. This is how gratitude may have evolved: by strengthening bonds between members of the same species who mutually helped each other out. To investigate how gratitude ...
Why Gratitude Is Good - Greater Good
2010年11月16日 · 4. Grateful people have a higher sense of self-worth. I think that’s because when you’re grateful, you have the sense that someone else is looking out for you—someone else has provided for your well-being, or you notice a network of relationships, past and present, of people who are responsible for helping you get to where you are right now.
Gratitude Quiz - Greater Good
Are you truly grateful for the good things in your life—or do you take them for granted? Grateful people are happy people, research shows. But how grateful are you? To find out—and discover steps for promoting even more gratitude in your life—take this quiz, which is based on a scale developed by psychologists Mitchel Adler and Nancy Fagley.
Is Gratitude Good for Your Health? - Greater Good
2018年3月5日 · The jury’s still out, but preliminary research suggests that grateful people may have better sleep, healthier hearts, and fewer aches and pains. After 15 years of research, we know that gratitude is a key to psychological well-being. Gratitude can make people happier, improve their relationships, and potentially even counteract depression and ...