Part 4: Some Research on Gratitude and Why We Should Care

Happiness doesn’t create gratitude, gratitude creates happiness The following video is a TED Talk given by Shawn Achor, a motivational speaker who teaches us that education, money, job security, etc. aren’t what create happiness. He believes that 1)...

Part 3: Gratitude Turns What We Have Into Enough

I open this morning with a story that sets the tone for our third lesson. Although it doesn’t speak directly to the reality that “gratitude turns what we have into enough”, it lets us know that when things seem at their darkest and we feel empty...

Part 2 – Gratitude as a Form of Prayer

Now that you know Gratitude as the Memory of your heart, I am going to ask you to take that memory, that gratitude, and see it as a form of prayer. I invite you to listen to another Brother David gratitude experience. This one is special because it was created by...

Part 1 — Gratitude as the Memory of the Heart

Getting in touch with the memories of your heart: When Oprah attended a Tony Robbins seminar in 2011, she says, he led an exercise that brought her to tears and reawakened memories she hadn’t thought about for 20 years. As we begin this course I’ve chosen,...

Online Gratitude Course: An Overview and a Welcome

Thank You for taking this online Gratitude Course.  I am excited about sharing it and I hope you think the material covered is valuable. Gratitude is a feel good topic; everyone wants to be more grateful and to learn more about gratitude. But I have to warn you that...