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comment by bhrgunatha
bhrgunatha  ·  2632 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Examining Gratitude

Those are mostly major things in life.

I really enjoyed Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage which I bought after seeing his Tedx talk.

In that book he talks about how important gratitude is in having a more positive mental state. A simple activity for gratitude is to spend a few minutes at the end of each day reflecting back on what happened to you during the day and finding some small (or not so small) positive things to be grateful for. At first I found it difficult, but after a while I noticed a change - I started to actually look for things to be grateful for during the day, then later another thing I noticed was that my perspective on small insignificant things changed and where I might have been annoyed at something I'd re-frame it so that it was a positive. It's weird, by forcing yourself to try and find something nice amongst the mundane and irritation of the day, you start to notice that actually there's a whole lot fo really good things happening that you would otherwise ignore or not even notice.