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The Gratitude Visit
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—Melody Beattie
What produces more happiness - satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity – about our past?
Gratitude amplifies the savoring and appreciation of the good events gone by. Gratitude about the good things in your past intensifies the positive memories about the past and therefore engenders more positive affect and the sense of happiness about the past. Satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity about the past are emotions that can be simply and easily induced and are available to everyone. You just have to choose them.
Martin Seligman has developed the Gratitude Visit to highlight the experience of gratitude.
Select one person from your past who made a positive contribution to you and to whom you have never really expressed how much it meant to you. Write a letter (1 page is enough) telling them how what they did meant to you, how it contributed to your life and how grateful you are to them. Take some time writing this letter so that it says what is really in your heart.
After you have written the letter, make plans to get together with them in not too public or busy place. Don’t do this visit on the phone – if you can help it. Don’t tell the person the purpose of your meeting.
When the moment is right take out your letter and read it slowly, letting your expression of thanks and gratitude come through while looking into the person’s eyes. Seligman suggests that you bring a laminated version of your letter to give the person as a gift. When you are finished let the other person take their time responding. Spend some time afterward reminiscing and reconnecting with this person.
Later, you might want to reflect on your experience and journal your insights, realizations, and what it meant to you.
Who will you give thanks to?
'If the only prayer you ever said
was 'Thank You', that would be enough'
- Meister Eckhart
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About the Author:
Mary Ann Copson is the founder of the Evenstar Mood & Energy Wellness Center for Women. With Master's Degrees in Human Development and Psychology and Counseling, Mary Ann is a Certified Licensed Nutritionist; Certified Holistic Health Practitioner; Brain Chemistry Profile Clinician; and a Health, Wellness and Lifestyle Coach. Reconnect to your physical, emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual natural rhythms at
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