CREATE A GRATITUDE JOURNAL

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.” – Amy Collette

Robert Emmons, world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude explains gratitude includes two components:
  • First, it is an ‘affirmation of goodness’. We acknowledge that there are good things in the world, gifts/tangibles and benefits we’ve received
  • Second, we spot that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves. We acknowledge that other people or even higher powers (if you’re of a spiritual mindset) gave us many gifts which help us achieve the ‘goodness in our lives’.
  • Sociologist Georg Simmel called it ‘the moral memory of mankind’.
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What is a gratitude journal?
In simple words, a gratitude journal is a tool to keep track of good things in life. It is a record of things/events that you appreciate or are thankful for.

Benefits of gratitude journaling
  • It can help you lower your stress level
  • Helps you feel calmer
  • It helps you figure out what really matters to you
  • You gain new perspective on things
  • Increased self-awareness
  • Become more mindful
  • Helps you highlight your accomplishments, enhance optimism
  • When you feel low it will help you reflect and look back to happy moments 
How to do it
There is no right or wrong way to keep a gratitude journal but the following are some general instruction
  • While writing be as specific as possible
  • Get personal
  • Reflect on how your life would be without certain people/things,
  • See positive things as gifts
  • Write down about event that were unexpected or surprising
  • Write regularly, allot a specific time if you want, you may write daily or once or twice in a week
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The goal of journaling is to remember a good event, experience, person, or thing in your life then enjoy the good emotions that come with it. A gratitude journal helps us to pay attention to the good things in life which we might take for granted. We begin to identify everyday sources of pleasure/happiness around us.

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Sanjina Bose

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