Mental Wellness
Gratitude Practice
Build a gratitude practice that the research actually supports
12 lessons4 modules8h 40m durationbeginner level
About this course
Build a real gratitude practice on the same protocols tested in peer-reviewed psychology, not on motivational slogans. You will learn the mechanisms behind gratitude, the affective and the moral, run named interventions such as Emmons and McCullough's gratitude journaling, Seligman's Three Good Things, the gratitude letter and visit, and mental subtraction, and measure your own baseline and change using validated instruments like the GQ-6 and a short wellbeing scale. Every exercise comes with frequency, duration, and the trade-offs the research found, so you can design a habit that fits your life and tell whether it is actually shifting how you feel.
Curriculum
Module 1: What Gratitude Is and How It Works in the Brain and Body
- Defining Gratitude: The Affective and Moral SidesPreview
- The Neuroscience: What Happens in the Grateful Brain🔒
- Why Gratitude Fades: Hedonic Adaptation and Habituation🔒
Module 2: The Core Evidence-Based Exercises
- Gratitude Journaling and Three Good Things🔒
- The Gratitude Letter and Gratitude Visit🔒
- Mental Subtraction, Savoring, and Reflective Practices🔒
Module 3: Designing and Sustaining Your Daily Practice
- Habit Architecture: Making Gratitude Stick🔒
- Matching the Practice to Your Temperament🔒
- Avoiding the Traps: Toxic Positivity and Comparison🔒
Module 4: Measuring Your Wellbeing and Seeing the Change
- Validated Scales: Measuring Gratitude and Wellbeing🔒
- Running Your Own N-of-1 Experiment🔒
- Interpreting Results and Building a Lifelong Practice🔒
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