Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier

Name: Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier
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ISBN: 9780547085739

ISBN-10: 0547085737

ISBN-13: 9780547085739

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Emmons

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A scientifically groundbreaking, eloquent look at how we benefit -- psychologically, physically, and interpersonally -- when we practice gratitude Did you know that there is a crucial component of happiness that is often overlooked? In Thanks!, Robert Emmons draws on the first major study of the subject of gratitude, of "wanting what we have," and shows that a systematic cultivation of this underexamined emotion can measurably change people'39;s lives. Readers will discover how bull; People who regularly practice grateful thinking can increase their "set-point" for happiness by as much as 25 percent. bull; Such increases can be sustained over a period of months, challenging the previously…

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List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 11/6/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The New Science of Gratitude



Gratitude and the Psyche



How Gratitude is Embodied



Thanks be to God: Gratitude and the Human Spirit



An Unnatural Crime: Ingratitude and Other Obstacles to Grateful Living



Gratitude in Trying Times



Practicing Gratitude


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Index