In a Book Review of "Thanks! How the new science of gratitude can make you
happier", by Robert A. Emmons, Houghton Mifflin
Company, New York, 2007, 244 pp, hardback (ISBN 0618620197):

"Thanks! ends by providing 10 practical strategies
for becoming more grateful.
Some strategies include:
keeping a gratitude journal,
learning prayers of gratitude,
increasing our mindfulness
and using sensory-perceptual sharpening
(called ``come to your senses''),
consciously using grateful language more often
(e.g., gift, givers, blessings, blessed, fortune,
fortunate, abundance),
and using visual reminders.
Illustrating the latter, I followed his advice and my
screensaver now reads: `Life is a Gift — Thanks!'"

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With metta / Antony.