The present study used a randomized controlled trial design to test a brief grateful thinking-only exercise with a sample of college students (N = 97).
Descriptive results indicated that, compared to the control exercise, the grateful thinking-only exercise had greater therapeutic effects on happiness, life satisfaction, depression, stress, and negative affect.
"I was more reflective, grateful, guilty, thinking about the ones who were so close, who'd made it to '94 and '95 and just missed being saved".
You may be thinking, Grateful??? How can I be grateful at a time like this? -- which is precisely why you should stop moping about whatever it is that went wrong and start thinking about all of the things that are "going right" in your life.
Developing habits of greater occupation of the available attention reduces rumination and increases being in the moment - the flow concept we discussed earlier [ 96]:...by increasing the amount of time a person spends thinking grateful and calming thoughts, there is simply less time to think upsetting and "unhelpful" thoughts.
Through it all he makes us grateful that a thinking woman's sex symbol of the '70s could be so compellingly well cast.
The Daily Grist even offered an April Fool's edition reporting, among other things, that a coalition of New Mexico environmental groups was backing a massive shopping complex "in the sprawling suburbs of Albuquerque," which grateful developers were thinking of naming Muir Valley.
You can do this by sitting quietly and thinking grateful thoughts but a gratitude journal is the simplest, most effective way to tune into that feeling.
Teach your children to be grateful by thinking of three reasons to be thankful when they are upset.
"I'm so grateful to him now, thinking back.
