How to Be Grateful

Research is starting to explore how gratitude works to improve our mental health.

In a nutshell, acting grateful can actually make you grateful.

In this thought provoking talk, Tanmeet Sethi shares how the overlooked value of gratitude can have surprising health and medical benefits.

Americans say thanks a lot, but other cultures may have a deeper understanding of gratitude.

Readers respond to Barbara Ehrenreich’s essay about “gratitude’s rise to self-help celebrity status.”

Gratitude can be difficult to practice, but you can gain a lot from making it an everyday part of your life.

This simple switch flips your perspective for the better.

There’s really no wrong way to journal, according to our experts, but “sometimes a blank page can be really intimidating,

If you’ve been trying to make kindness part of your family culture and there’s still a lot of complaining, it’s time to take further steps to teach and practice gratitude.

“Gratitude is an emotion that grounds us and is a great way to balance out the negative mindset that uncertainty engenders.”

Now seems like as good a time as any, right?

Thoughts on gratitude.

The author talks the “Great Coffee Gratitude Trail,” a project that has become his sixth book, Thanks a Thousand.

Instead of scrolling through my phone on my commute, I decided to thank people.

What if “happiness” could be actively learned?