First of all, that gratitude practice has to be grounded in a narrative, meaning a story.
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First of all, that gratitude practice has to be grounded in a narrative, meaning a story.
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Second of all, that story can be one of you receiving genuine thanks. And the key elements there are that you are the one receiving the thanks, the gratitude, and that it's being given to you genuinely, wholeheartedly. Or it can be a story of you observing someone else receiving thanks or expressing thanks.
Second of all, that story can be one of you receiving genuine thanks. And the key elements there are that you are the one receiving the thanks, the gratitude, and that it's being given to you genuinely, wholeheartedly. Or it can be a story of you observing someone else receiving thanks, or expressing thanks, and that has to be a genuine interaction as well, both between the giver and the receiver.
First of all, that practice has to be grounded in a narrative, meaning a story. You don't have to recite or hear that story every single time you do the gratitude practice, but you have to know what that story was, and what the gratitude practice references back to.