How to show gratitude to someone who helped you

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~William Arthur Ward

Expressing your gratitude towards others is one of the biggest gifts you can give to them.

As we show our thankfulness to family, friends, acquaintances and strangers, our hearts expand and we lift each other up. Research has shown that the practice of gratitude helps us cope better with stress, improves our health and increases positive feelings such as hope, peace and happiness.

We can also use gratitude’s power to help us through tough times.

In the book, Living in Gratitude: A Journey That Will Change Your Life, Angeles Arrien, teacher and cultural anthropologist, says, “Through conscious and sustained practice over a period of time, we can discover again how gratitude and all its related qualities – thankfulness, appreciation, compassion, generosity, grace, and so many other positive states – can become integrated and embodied in our lives.” She goes on to say, “And when people in great numbers choose to prac

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