The Choice of Gratitude

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i asked doctor emmons how people can stay grateful with the deluge of tough news lately. He said, gratitude is undentable. You got to force yourself to look on the bright side. Keep a gratitude journal daily and record in writing what you're grateful for. count bodily related things, like being able to see here, walk, e, breathe,. use visual reminders, like pictures of loved ones or scenes of nature.

As a friend of a friend's hairdresser once said: "it's hard to be hateful with a plateful of grateful." Is it? In this pre-holidays quickie episode, Alie is grumpy as hell and decides to research the neuroscience of gratitude. Does it work? Who's studying it? Does she need to buy a journal? Find out how jotting down things you don't hate on the back of a receipt or opening a secret Twitter account may be worth more than whatever you get in your office Secret Santa exchange.

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