How to Practice Gratitude for Year-Round Benefits

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Nicole LePera, A.J. Jacobs, Martha Beck, Susan Cain and Cory Allen as our guests on this special “Thanksgiving” episode all about gratitude!

Research from Harvard Medical School shows that “gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships." We know that it’s good to give thanks but so many of us struggle to make it a regular practice and this episode will teach you how to do so and why it is worth prioritizing!

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Our Special Guests and I Discuss How to Practice Gratitude and …

Dr. Nicole LePera – how she defines gratitude and why it’s important
How verbally stating or writing can activate feelings of appreciation
Our tendency to pay attention to what we lack rather than what we have
Shifting from “I have to” to “I am grateful for the opportunity”
A.J. Jacobs – how practicing gratitude is a way to not take things for granted
The hedonic treadmill and the “I’ll be happy” when trap
His active practice of texting his mom every day what he’s grateful for
How the more specific the better when it comes to expressing gratitude
Martha Beck – how she was impacted when she first read about the benefits of gratitude
How engaging in your senses is a good way to practice gratitude
Her 3:1 gratitude practice – for every negative experience, think of 3 positive ones
Reveling in what the soul yearns for sharpens a gratitude practice
Susan Cain – how she notices and savors beautiful things
How we need to both accept the beauty and the difficult realities of our existence
The best gateway to gratitude is discovering what elevates us
How she teaches her kids gratitude
Cory Allen – how what we associate with gratitude is what makes us feel grounded and safe
How he goes deeper into gratitude
How gratitude comes from being present and getting curious
The benefits of practice gratitude for its own sake

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0:00.0	So many of us don't live in the present moment and can't feel grateful for what's available
0:04.9	because we're focusing on how much we wish it wasn't the case right here right now.
0:09.5	When we can sit in radical acceptance of what is here now, when we can maybe change the way we're
0:13.6	filtering, giving ourselves the opportunity to possibly springboard us into a future that's different.
0:19.2	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:29.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:33.7	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:39.2	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:45.3	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:52.0	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:58.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:02.8	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
1:07.3	how they feed their good walls.
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1:53.3	Hello everyone. I am doing the intro this week instead of Christopher because this is a special
1:59.1	episode of the One You Feed Podcast. We've done these in the past and what we do is talk to some
2:04.1	of our favorite people about one single topic. And the topic we're going to explore in this episode
2:09.7	is gratitude. For those of you in the States, you know it's Thanksgiving week, at least if you're
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