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When times are great, it's easy to be grateful, but when times are tough, that calls for radical

gratitude. Stay tuned to Breakpoint. From Washington, D.C. Here's Chuck Colson with Breakpoint.

A few years ago, university psychologists conducted a research project on gratitude and Thanksgiving.

They divided participants into three groups.

People in the first group practiced daily exercises like writing in a gratitude journal.

They reported higher levels of alertness,

determination, optimism, energy, and less depression and stress than the control group.

Unsurprisingly, they were also a lot happier than the participants who were told to keep an

account of all the bad things that happened each day. One of the psychologists concluded

that though a practice of gratitude

is a key to most religions, its benefits extend to the general population, regardless of faith or no

faith. He suggested that anybody can increase his sense of well-being just from counting his blessings.

Well, as my colleague Ellen Vaughn wrote in their book, Radical Gratitude, no one is going to disagree

with the fact that gratitude is a virtue.

But Allen says, counting our blessings and conjuring an attitude to whom it may concern gratitude,

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