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.