Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier

Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier
ISBN-10
0547085737
ISBN-13
9780547085739
Category
Fiction
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Robert A. Emmons

Description

A proponent of the field of positive psychology offers a close-up study of the positive influence on people's lives of the systematic cultivation of gratitude, explaining how the practice of grateful thinking can increase one's chances for happiness and help one cope more effectively with stress, recover more quickly from illness, enjoy better physical health, improve relationships, and other benefits. Reprint.

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