Four Themes in the Gratitude Pillar:
1. Receiving the Gift
2. Taking Pleasure
3. Feeling Successful
4. Being Happy for Others
Topics covered in this pillar:
- The two aspects of happiness: hedonia and eudaimonia.
- Appreciating what one has. Developing habits of gratitude.
- How to heighten sensory awareness.
- Taking pleasure through seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, and imagining. Recognizing and releasing inhibitions on experiencing pleasure, gladness, and joy.
- How to find beauty, and the beneficial effects.
- Recognizing completions, goals attained, accomplishments. How to feel successful.
- Feeling glad about the small things of everyday life.
- How to internalize an increasingly unconditional sense of happiness, less and less dependent on external conditions.
Also Featured:
Creative Activities:
Receiving the Gift
Happiness for Others
Interviews:
Gretchen Rubin
Bob Emmons