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Happy Life Tip of the Week, Issue #002 Rapidly Increase Happiness
March 25, 2009
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Adopt an Attitude of Gratitude to Rapidly Increase Happiness

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Dr. Robert Emmons, a positive psychology researcher specializing in gratitude, has found that keeping a gratitude journal every day for a week increases happiness and all the benefits that come from greater happiness. People that regularly count their blessings are healthier, more adaptive to change, better problem solvers, and more likely to be in long term relationships. More…

People in the study spent about 20 minutes a day writing about the things they were grateful for that day. Not only were they measurably happier at the end of the week, the effect often lasted more than a month after people stopped keeping the journal. Just think, you could be happier in seven days just by spending 20 minutes a day listing the things you are grateful for that day. Visit www.happylifeu.com

Affirmation
I joyfully count my blessings every day.
Journal or Meditation Question
What am I grateful for today?


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