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Gratitude
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A Practice: Counting Your Blessings
A spiritual practice for "noticing the good" changes how we experience the world and can lead to more wellbeing and even physical health.
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Sacred Days of Thanksgiving: Spiritual Rhythms
Why do we pause to give thanks at Thanksgiving? How can this make us more grateful people? What do religious traditions teach us?
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The Gift of Giving: Cultivating Grateful Community through Charity and Service
When we receive gifts, we experience gratitude, and this can be paid forward through giving to others through charity and service.
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Walking with Wonder: Feeling Gratitude in Nature and Pilgrimage
The spiritual elevation that comes from walking in nature provides a pathway to gratitude, a powerful virtue for spiritual health.
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Expressing Gratitude through Everyday Prayers of Thanksgiving
People of faith express gratitude in a variety of ways. Read more to explore spiritual practices to express gratitude.
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Gifts for the Soul: Gratitude as a Spiritual Practice
Explore why the powerful spiritual practice of gratitude change your life. Habituating it can lead to a more virtuous and joyful life.
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Want more Love and Goodness? Savor Gratitude
Gratitude is one of the most powerful ways to attend to goodness. The goodness of gifts, the goodness of givers, and the goodness of ourselves as receivers.
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Shades of Gratitude
Our team seeks to test and develop a theoretical framework to help guide future research on gratitude.
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How diverse beliefs shape the experience of transcendent gratitude
Citation Nelson, J., Mangan, S., Baer, R. A., Ramdass, J. V., & King, P. E. et al. (2024). How diverse beliefs shape the experience of transcendent gratitude, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 19(1), 11-24. Abstract As a novel contribution, this study considers transcendent gratitude (e.g. gratitude towards non-human benefactors such as God, Science, or Karma) across diverse belief systems. The sample included 619 participants (M age 37.5, 52.6% female) across the U.S. with beliefs across three distinct categories: a) Theistic; 38.4%), b) Spiritual but not theistic; 26.4%, and c) Non-theistic/Non-spiritual (Other);…
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The Power of Pausing in Gratitude
Gratitude affect happiness and wellbeing primarily through positive relationships. We finding that beliefs matters toward experiences and practices of gratitude.
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A Practice: Using the 5 A’s to Slow down and Offer Thanks
Practicing gratitude can change your life. Use the 5 As mindfulness practice to offer thanks and live into a practice of gratitude.
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Shades of Gratitude: Exploring Varieties of Transcendent Beliefs and Experience
Citation King, P. E., Baer, R. A., Noe, S. A., Trudeau, S., Mangan, S. A., & Constable, S. R. (2022). Shades of Gratitude: Exploring Varieties of Transcendent Beliefs and Experience. Religions, 13(11), 1091. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13111091 Abstract The study of gratitude has expanded beyond interpersonal gratitude and considers how people respond to gifts that are not caused by human agency. Given the discord between the prominent understanding of gratitude requiring the appropriate recognition of a gift to a giver and the increasing divergence of transcendent belief systems that do not acknowledge a transcendent or cosmic giver, we explored how people with different...
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