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This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1106. Gratitude comes from noticing your life, not from thinking about it by David Kane of Raptitude dot com.

And I'm your narrator Justin Mollick reading you blogs or articles every single day of the year to help you live a more meaningful life.

And at today's articles from Raptitude, a great blog and he's done a lot of experiments and writes about the results. Definitely check it out.

He also has a mindfulness course called camp calm that I recommend that's at campcom.com. I'll give a reminder about that at the end.

So for now, let's get right to the post as we optimize your life.

Gratitude comes from noticing your life, not from thinking about it by David Kane of Raptitude dot com.

Every gratitude exercise I've ever done asks you to think about what you have to be grateful for. In other words, you brainstorm reasons you ought to feel grateful, whether or not you do.

You've probably done one of these before, writing five things you're grateful for every night, recalling past good luck during difficult moments, or trying to remember as often as possible,

your privileges and advantages in life. These exercises might be worthwhile on some level, but most of the time they don't create much of a real time felt sense of gratitude.

They just remind you of certain encouraging wrote facts on paper. Your situation is pretty good. Many parts of your life would be enviable to others. Things could be worse.

As you might have noticed, simply making the case to ourselves that we have reasons to feel grateful doesn't necessarily make us feel grateful.

Gratitude when we do genuinely feel it arises from experiences we are currently having, not from evaluating our lives in our heads.

When you feel lonely, for example, simply remembering that you have friends is a dull nominal comfort compared to how wonderful it feels when one of those friends calls you out of the blue.

Reflecting on the good fortune of having a fixed address is nice, but stepping inside your front door after a cold and rainy walk home is sublime.

The experience, not the idea, is what matters. So if you want to feel grateful, forget to thinking exercises.

Look for your good fortune not in some abstract assessment of your life situation, but in your experience right in this moment.

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