Welcome to episode 216 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

We all have people in our lives that we love and appreciate, but have you ever thought

about how good it is for you to show appreciation for others?

A new study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies shows that learning how to show appreciation for others can help you feel less stressed and can even reduce symptoms of depression.

How does that work?

We brought in Live Happy editor Chris Libby to explain it to us.

Well, Chris, welcome into the studio.

Well, I guess you're here with me every week.

We just don't usually hear from you, but welcome to a live microphone. Thank you. And I appreciate you for having me on. Oh, you just gave away what we're going to talk about. I saw what you did there. Yes, once again, I saw the study, and it was about appreciation. And it's like, who can I talk to about this? And you're it.

You're always the guy that I talked to with these studies.

So I appreciate you being available to do so.

Yeah, this is a great study because it not only talks about gratitude

and how positive emotions really have an effect on your health and your well-being,

but it really singles out the different

components to gratitude in which parts are stronger than others as far as well-being is concerned.

And what was interesting to me is that we talk a lot about gratitude, but this one really took

that one little angle of gratitude and talked about appreciation.

Yes.

And so I hadn't, you know, I don't think I'd ever consciously separated those two, but what is the

difference between appreciation and gratitude?

Because they're kind of cut from the same cloth.

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