Gratitude builds when the emotional connection to an event or object builds. For a simple experience of this idea, open your wallet.\u00a0 What do you see?\u00a0 Some money, maybe. A few credit cards.\u00a0 Maybe a photo. Consider one object you just found in your wallet. How did you come to possess it?\u00a0 What does that object represent to you? Think about the history of that object? If you are looking at a dollar bill, you might recall that the waitress who served you breakfast gave it to you as change for a twenty.\u00a0 Maybe that will remind you of having breakfast in your favorite diner or remind you of your waitress\u2019s pleasant attitude. Think about how different you might feel about an object as simple as a dollar bill when you understand it has a history.\u00a0 Consider some of the many ways you can be grateful because of how a person or object came into \u00a0your awareness at this moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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