Hello and welcome to psychic teachers.

I'm your host, Deb Bowen.

And I'm Samantha Faye.

And as you know, we talk a lot about gratitude on this show.

And we believe it really is one of the primary ways in

which we connect with universal energy and with each other. Some of what we'll discuss in

this week's broadcast, you've heard of say in the past. Some of it is information based on new research, and some of it is

based on our own experiences and stories that you've shared with us. This week's podcast focuses

on what gratitude really is and how we can incorporate it more deeply into our lives every day.

When we do so, we enrich ourselves and the world around us.

So sit back, take a deep breath, and let's get started. How many times a day do you say thank you,

Samantha? All the time. Absolutely. I say thank you all the time. And I think it's important to say thank you

for the little things as much as the big things, because it's the little things that end up

mattering. I agree. I mean, from a cursory polite thanks when someone holds a door for you

or hands you a cup of coffee at your coffee shop.

From there to offering up deep, sincere expressions of gratitude for gifts in your life and for life

itself, the kind of thanks that sends you deep within yourself to examine the intentions of your

heart. And I think that having an awareness of saying thank you is really important every day.

And that's just my opinion on that.

And to truly, deeply express gratitude to someone else requires us to do more than to say the words.

It requires us to also feel a deep sense of caring and connection, to both return the kindness we've been given and then to pass it on

to other people. So with that in mind, there's been lots of research. I don't, you and I both did some extensive research for this episode.

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