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People who are able to feel gratitude are happier, more confident, more open. They know the value of positive things in their lives, do not take them for granted and do not think they are guaranteed. Moreover they do not feel isolated, in struggle with the world, but on the contrary they know how to recognize the dense network of relationships that binds us to each other.
Gratitude is an antidote to the two main causes of unhappiness: the sense of deprivation (ie when we feel we do not have what we need) and isolation: the idea of being alone with our problems, unique in our pain, separated from others.
Cultivating gratitude means taking a different perspective:
to focus on what we have (and not what we lack)
practice to see and value all that we receive from others.