Keeping a Gratitude Journal
Scientific Benefits of Keeping a Gratitude Journal
Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier
Did you know that there is a crucial component of happiness that is often overlooked? In the pages of this eminently readable book, Robert Emmons -- editor in chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology -- draws on the first major study of the subject of gratitude, of "wanting what we have," and shows that a systematic cultivation of this underexamined emotion can measurably change people's lives. Readers will discover how:People who regularly practice grateful thinking can increase their "set-point" for happiness by as much as 25 percent.
Such increases can be sustained over a period of months -- challenging the previously held notion that our set-points for happiness are frozen at birth.
Keeping a gratitude journal for as little as three weeks results in better sleep and more energy.
Emmons also reaches beyond science to bolster the case for gratitude by weaving in the writings of philosophers, novelists, and theologians. Like no other book has before, Thanks! inspires readers to embrace gratitude and all the benefits it can bring into our lives.
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Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier
A Place to Tell Yourself the Truth!
Keeping a journal for an extended period of time lets you learn the truth about yourself. Do certain problems occur again and again at work, at home or in your relationships? Do you notice when you are in a pattern of behavior that you just can't break out of? A Journal can reflect back to you how your motivation waxes and wanes, or how many projects you let fizzle out after a brief burst of excitement. Your journal is actually a gift to your future self! Keeping a journal today means you can look back in five years, ten years or in old age at what you were thinking and dreaming about. Here is where you secretly keep the past version of yourself. Keep a Gratitude Journal

Start a daily practice of writing down all of the things you are grateful for. When you write in your journal, don't dwell on things that went wrong. Focus on the positive aspects of your day or week, even when you have to dig hard to find something. Writing down what you are grateful for can truly change your life as it brings your focus to the miracles everywhere around us. It might take a while for you to notice the effect, but you'll soon be seeing faster change in your life because we tend to move towards what we're focusing on.
Mobile Device Promises To Make You Happier
Users Track Moods On 'Gratitude Journal'
By Jim HaddadinStaff Writer for
thebostonchannel.com
Mobile devices have tackled an ever-expanding list of functions in recent years, but one new application for the iPhone is promising users a unique service. It's supposed to make you happier.
Developers at Happier.com launched a companion application for the Apple iPhone and iTouch this week that allows users to keep track of how happy they are from day to day using a mobile "gratitude journal."
How to be Happier! Visit my new lens and take a Free Happiness Test. Learn about the new
iphone application that everyone is talking about and watch the Happier.com video.
Eco Friendly, Goddess, Moons and Pentacles
Everyone should have a Green Journal!
The 1000 Journals Project: Traveling Exhibition

This exhibition celebrates The 1000 Journals Project, an ongoing collaborative and participatory experiment that follows 1,000 blank journals as they journey around the world. Each journal is stamped with a message inviting participants to draw, paste, rip, or write on its pages, and then pass it on when finished. Exchanged by friends and strangers or left in bus shelters and other unexpected places, the books have accumulated a rich tapestry of stories, drawings, and personal reflections. Collectively, the journals have traveled to more than 40 countries and all 50 states. Co-curated by anonymous project creator Someguy and Stephanie Pau of the SFMOMA Education Department, this presentation features a selection of journals that have returned to San Francisco. In keeping with the spirit of the project, journals and art supplies will be available to visitors, offering an open invitation to participate in this exciting social-art experiment.
Voyeuristic. Inspirational. Entertaining.
One thousand blank journals are currently circulating throughout the world.
1000 Journals Project
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This is a perfect gift for journalists, aspiring artists, designers, and anyone who can't wait for one of the journals to magically appear in their lives.
Go Ahead! Wreck This Journal!
Flickr photo:Surfacing by Kymberlee della Luce

Sometimes we all need a little encouragement to start writing on a pristine white
sheet of paper. It feels just too intimidating to boldly make our mark. The answer
to this quandary is to get a journal that makes it all ok; The "Wreck This Journal"
Journal.
Green Light on Creative Destruction
Wreck This Journal
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The "Wreck This Journal" Journal stands alone in it's bold and brazen invitation to heedlessly begin to fill it with anything and everything, careless and free, mistakes welcome. It takes our excuses away. There is no more waiting for the perfect image or words to come to mind. All is welcome here.
Inspiring Empty Books to Draw You In
Get Creative!
Here's a Great Journal for Kids!
My Magical World Journal
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Every child has a magical world, and keeping track of it in this journal could be the beginning of an inspired story that lasts a lifetime. The hardcover is actually 3-D!
Learn, Live, Hope, Never Stop Thinking
And For the Person Who Doesn't Like Resolutions...
Blank Journals and Empty Books to Fill
Journal links
- 1000 Journals Exhibition
- November 01, 2008 - April 05, 2009. Experience the rich creativity inside journals that have traveled through 40 countries and 50 states!
- How to write a journal entry
- Writing a journal entry may seem simple, but when beginning to keep a journal that simplicity feels confusing at times. For those who need it, follow this outline and you can't go wrong. Keep in mind that there are no rules when it comes to writing a journal.
- How to write meaningful journal entries
- Make your entries rich in detail, use timed writing, focus your senses, mine your memory and use lots of journal writing prompts.
- Wreck this journal Flickr pages
- A great collection of Flickr photos of wreck this journal pages
- How to Achieve Your New Year's Resolutions | eHow.com
- How to Achieve Your New Year's Resolutions. Step by step guide to achieving your New Year's Resolutions -Guaranteed
- The Neuroscience of Leadership Journaling
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Stay inspired from day to day!
Great Sites to Visit for Journal Writing Prompts
- A Goldmine of Journal Writing Prompts for Kids
- Why should the adults have all the fun? Journal writing prompts are great for kids too. This lens focuses on journal writing prompt resources suitable for kids. There's enough here to keep them occupied creatively all summer long! If you are after journal prompts for grown ups, please check out my o
- Places Online to Find Great Journal Prompts - Associated Content
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Get this content in a widget/feed Home / Prose / Places Online to Find Great Journal Prompts X Journal prompts are a great way to stimulate creativity. Credit: Aschwin Prein - Journal Prompts - Life List Magic! eBook for Journal Writers and Autobiography
- Discover a better way to get Journal Prompts and Autobiography Questions through Life List Writing, Journal Starters
Thank you for your thoughtful comments!
My readers were the first to let me know that this lens was picked as Lens of the Day for New Year's Eve!
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- AmyGSTL AmyGSTL Apr 23, 2009 @ 10:07 pm
- What a wonderful focus for a journal -- gratitude! Thanks for gathering all of these wonderful resources into your lens.
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- drifter0658 drifter0658 Apr 20, 2009 @ 6:36 am
- Well done. I can't tell you how many journals I have started. Whew!
Thanks!
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- a_willow a_willow Apr 17, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
- You are one of January 2009 graduates! Come by and answer few questions to show the way to those who will follow! Wish you many, many more great lenses!
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- Mountainside-Crochet Mountainside-Crochet Mar 30, 2009 @ 11:24 am
- I've actually started a Gratitude Journal many times, and somehow...... But, eventually I return. This lovely lens is a good reminder it's now 'time to return'. I'm grateful for your wonderful words of encouragement.
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- sittonbull sittonbull Mar 10, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
- Hi BK, Been trying to work my way thru the FSContestents to ck all the lens and I was delighted to find your excellent lens. I've been blessed most of my days to have been taught to understand the joy of learning an "attitude of gratitude". The journal is a great idea and I'm sure it has served you well! Congrats on LOTD also. Stars and faved. BTW one of my favorite moments of gratitude was enjoying R&R on Maui way back in 1971 when there was only one chain hotel there...The Holiday Inn out at Kapalua. I stayed w/some friends I met on a sailboat near the old hotel @ Lahania. Rented a car and drove to Hana... didn't want to leave... You have a beautiful place to live, write and sing! Went back several yrs ago... couldn't believe the commercial growth and changes!
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- C-Joy C-Joy Feb 28, 2009 @ 1:32 pm
- Lovely - I find there is nothing as tempting as a beautiful blank book! Besides, wouldn't we all be better off if we focused on what was good in our lives instead of complaining on what is going wrong? Thank you for sharing:)
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- OhMe OhMe Feb 27, 2009 @ 6:43 pm
- I have said many times that I wanted to start a Gratitude Journal but never have. Your lens is very inspirational. Thank you.
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- Educator_With_a_Heart Educator_With_a_Heart Feb 7, 2009 @ 6:42 am
- I love this lens! Thanks for the inspiration :-)
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- d-artist d-artist Feb 2, 2009 @ 6:12 pm
- very nice lens...I have a hard time keeping a journal, I only write if something troubles me...a bad habit...5*
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- keithranney keithranney Feb 1, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
- Nice lens. I like the "My Magical World Journal" - very "Harry Potter meets the Muppets."
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- keithranney keithranney Feb 1, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
- Nice lens. I like the "My Magical World Journal" - very "Harry Potter meets the Muppets."
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- a_willow a_willow Feb 1, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
- This lens entered Fresh Squid Contest for February as one of featured lenses on Fresh Squid group in January! Come by and vote!
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- marvinschult marvinschult Jan 28, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
- Few days ago in Costa Rica, that place where I was born, suffer an earhtquake. After our autorithies discover a lot of trauma and danger of mental health in a lot of people. Let me suggest that like a tool for recovery post earthtquake.
Thanks and wish the best for this New Year and keep in your journal.
Marvin
marvin.schult@btinternet.com
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- purplelady purplelady Jan 25, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
- Your lens inspired me to start journaling as one of my New Years resolutions. I was given a journal when I retired in 2001 and had misplaced it when we moved. I found it a couple of weeks ago and then I found your lens. Seems to go together as a sign of something; perhaps that maybe this time I will actually keep one of my resolutions and also keep writing longer in a journal. Great lens worth 5Journals and a lensroll.
Perhaps you would like to voice your opinion in my Hey Monkey Brain lens:
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- Surly-Mac Surly-Mac Jan 22, 2009 @ 2:39 pm
- Wow! Talk about the "journey of a thousand journals"! Very entertaining and informative lens. Thanks.
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