The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
it seems to ratchet back to actions to verbs to bring us to these feeling states that you know I think are what people are seeking you know peace contentment Delight you know through agency gratitude as active terms right there yes you know I think these are Universal desires
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well a healthy self approaches life through the lens of agency and gratitude
And agency and gratitude, as you said at the beginning, we're seeing as verbs. That's how we're living life. It's through the lens, so to speak, of agency and gratitude that we're actively living.
They're active processes. Like life is an active process. There's not an endpoint we're trying to reach. We're trying to live.
So we get to be through the lens of agency and gratitude. We get to experience peace, contentment and delight. And that makes a healthier us.
When people talk about that, they're always, if you really distill down, what are they talking about? A sense of peace, a sense of contentment coming at the world through agency and gratitude. And we can do that through self-inquiry, including through therapy.