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How to Be Grateful

Cultivating gratitude can improve your life, rewire your brain, and influence those around you. Here’s how to get started.

Amy Maoz

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You might be one “thank you” away from a much better mood. Science (and celebrities—just ask Oprah.) have proven time and again that gratitude may be the closest thing we have to a silver bullet to a better life. Read on to explore how gratitude works, how to make giving thanks a way of life, and why the return on investment is so enormous.

How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain

Research is starting to explore how gratitude works to improve our mental health.

Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier.

In a nutshell, acting grateful can actually make you grateful.

Two Words That Can Change Your Life [WATCH]

In this thought provoking talk, Tanmeet Sethi shares how the overlooked value of gratitude can have surprising health and medical benefits.

How Cultural Differences Shape Your Gratitude

Americans say thanks a lot, but other cultures may have a deeper understanding of gratitude.

Two Sides of Gratitude

Readers respond to Barbara Ehrenreich’s essay about “gratitude’s rise to self-help celebrity status.”

How To Make Gratitude a Way of Life

Gratitude can be difficult to practice, but you can gain a lot from making it an everyday part of your life.

How to Be Thankful For Your Life by Changing Just One Word

This simple switch flips your perspective for the better.

The Best Wellness, Gratitude, and Happiness Journals, According to Therapists and Journalers

There’s really no wrong way to journal, according to our experts, but “sometimes a blank page can be really intimidating,

How to Raise Grateful Kids in an Era of Thankless People

If you’ve been trying to make kindness part of your family culture and there’s still a lot of complaining, it’s time to take further steps to teach and practice gratitude.

Use Gratitude to Counter Stress and Uncertainty

“Gratitude is an emotion that grounds us and is a great way to balance out the negative mindset that uncertainty engenders.”

4 Small Ways to Practice Gratitude Every Day

Now seems like as good a time as any, right?

Column of Light

Thoughts on gratitude.

A.J. Jacobs Thanked One Thousand People For His Morning Coffee—He Likes It That Much

The author talks the “Great Coffee Gratitude Trail,” a project that has become his sixth book, Thanks a Thousand.

How Writing 365 Thank-You Notes Helped Me Reconnect with What’s Important in My Life

Instead of scrolling through my phone on my commute, I decided to thank people.

I Skeptically Tried Practicing Gratitude. It Completely Changed My Life.

What if “happiness” could be actively learned?