In today's highly consumerist society, where possessing a killer instinct is considered a great asset, and quarterly growth figures are a measure of a nation's standing internationally; does gratitude have any place at all?
What is gratitude? Learn how gratitude empowers, how it affects society, its place in religion, and why gratitude is so important.
Gratitude can be learned. Inside are ten steps you can take to incorporate gratitude into your life. Additionally, there are some behaviors to avoid if you truly want to enhance our process of learning gratitude, as well as exercises to really incorporate gratitude into your life.
Read about gratitude real-life stories from the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan.
Enjoy the gratitude poems in this book. Use them to increase gratitude in your life.
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Chapter 1
What Is Gratitude?
Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.
-The Apostle Paul
Gratitude is being thankful—capable of showing appreciation and returning kindness. Gratitude is something that all of us have felt at some point in time. At the core of this emotion lies the realization that we are in some way blessed.
Now to some this may be vast riches, estates, and fancy automobiles; while to others it might just be the gift of health and life itself. More than what it expresses, it is what gratitude does for an individual that is important. It lets the individual know that they are not wanting or lacking, but in fact they have so much that they feel the need to express thanks for good fortune.
For those who would say that this is an exercise in self-deception, I would say that gratitude cannot be faked. You express it only when you feel it—and if you feel it. Gratitude arises when you realize and appreciate that there are reasons for you to be happy; it may be the love of your family, a job that brings you great fulfillment, or an expensive gift you may have received. So you could feel gratitude to God, society, your family, friends, and relatives.
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