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To express gratitude in a meaningful way, a person needs to actually feel grateful, and that often involves looking at a person or situation from a new angle. Expressing appreciation thus involves both an expressive action and an inner attitude.
In one of the authorâs experiments they directed the participants to keep a gratitude journal and contemplate five things that made them feel grateful. Half of the participants were instructed to do that once a week, while the rest of them did that three times a week for a total of six weeks. Hereâs whatâs strange: Only the group that counted their blessings once a week achieved happiness results because of it.