In today's work, we will present arguments for the problem of gratitude. As you know, essays on the unified state exam are written according to a special algorithm. The more you cover the topic, the more points you can get.

What are the most common topics? This is the problem of love for mother and motherland, inhumanity, nobility, inner culture of a person and, of course, the problem of gratitude. Examples in the essay must be cited from literature, cinema or life. Now we will simplify the task for you and describe in detail some of them.

Composition of the exam

In the article we will consider the problem of gratitude. An essay on a unified state exam should begin with a reference to the words of the author, because we write creative work from an excerpt where some problems are clearly visible.

In single tickets state exam this topic is often touched upon by I. Ilyin. You can start your essay like this: the problem is touched upon by the well-known critic I. Ilyin. Next, you need to express your thoughts on the problem. Example: gratitude is an incredible feeling that is inherent in all living beings of our planet ... In our creative work the problem of gratitude is touched upon, it is definitely worth giving the most revealing of its essence.

After you have reflected your point of view on this one, you need to write one short paragraph, where you explain whether you agree with the author or not and why. Below you will see an example of this paragraph. I fully agree with the author, the feeling of gratitude gives people joy and love. The latter are our passing tickets to a brighter future. Surely, each of us aspires to go there. It is unfortunate that not all people are able to experience this feeling.

Only after these words it is necessary to proceed to the arguments of the problem of gratitude.

"French lessons"

A good and striking example is the work of Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin, which is called "French Lessons". main character- this is a kind, sympathetic, compassionate and disinterested person Lidia Mikhailovna, who in every way helps her student to survive the terrible hungry times.

teacher of English language invents more and more new ways to help the fifth grader. An attempt to send a package of groceries was unsuccessful, because the boy rejected her help. Then the inventive Lydia Mikhailovna offers to play an invented game for money, which is called "zameryashki". The boy thinks that the game is an honest way to earn money and agrees with the teacher's proposal.

Upon learning of this incident, the school principal fires the English teacher. Only the whole problem lies in the fact that he did not understand the reason for such an act by Lydia Mikhailovna.

After this incident, the woman goes to her homeland, but her feelings for the boy are so deep that she seeks to help him, even being many kilometers away from him. This is a very powerful argument for the problem of gratitude. The boy will remember these lessons of kindness and his teacher for the rest of his life. Lidia Mikhailovna experiences only positive feelings and never blames the boy for losing her job. In the package she sent to a student from the Kuban, there were apples that the boy saw only in pictures in books.

"Captain's daughter"

The argument for the problem of gratitude can be cited from the novel by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin " Captain's daughter". This work describes the events taking place at the time of the uprising of E. Pugachev. In the story, we see gestures of gratitude from two characters at once. Let's start from the very beginning.

The protagonist (Peter) goes to the place of service, accompanied by Savelich. On their way there is a strong snowstorm, as a result of this incident, the heroes go astray. Then a man comes to their aid, who simply shows them the way. Grinev was very happy with the help and wanted to thank the peasant, then Peter decides to give him his hare sheepskin coat.

The same man who once directed Grinev in the direction he needed is Pugachev. Further in the novel there is a scene of the capture of the Belogorodskaya fortress, where Pugachev recognizes Peter and gives him life, canceling the death sentence. What prompted him to do this act? Of course, thanks to the main character for the service provided by Grinev to Rasputin, who at that moment was on the run from "his ailments."

Despite the fact that Pugachev made him such as saving his life, he offered to enter his service. Even after the refusal, he does not let the hero go empty-handed, but gives him a horse, a nag and a fur coat. Pugachev is an ambiguous person who is capable of noble deeds.

"For my name"

You can bring a rather striking argument even from feature films. For example, the film "For My Name" very well illuminates the essence of the problem. It is worth noting that even children are capable of such an incredible feeling. The main character Anya is grateful to the clergyman for giving her this name. She completely trusts this person and reveals all her innermost secrets.

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The role of gratitude in the relationship of personality to life

Introduction

non-stop current time introduces innovations into a person's life that change the way of life, thinking, and the person himself. But in modern world moral convictions twitch. In our time, gratitude is not in fashion, its role has become very insignificant. Gratitude has ceased to meet the needs of modern man. She will not be able to bring what she wants (fame, fortune, self-realization, decent work, etc.), because gratitude is not enough.

From the early age the child is taught to say "thank you" and "please" for kindness and other good things. But how often do people thank each other and for what? The modern perception of gratitude ranges from moderate acceptance, without any enthusiasm, to ambivalence. People have forgotten that "gratitude" has a beautiful meaning of "gift" and "good", that is, to give good. Modern man won't stop murmuring the world, on your life, etc., forgetting to thank for what you already have; forgetting what positive color can bring sincere words gratitude, said from the bottom of my heart, in the life of any person.

In order to have a more complete and accurate idea of ​​the feeling of gratitude, it is necessary to turn to traditional and ancient sources related to philosophy and religion. From which it can be understood that gratitude is at the heart of human nature.

What is gratitude

The two most beautiful concepts of "gift" and "good" managed to merge into one - "gratitude", that is, to give good. In ancient texts and religious practice, gratitude is given a lot of attention. Gratitude is believed to be at the core of human nature.

Gratitude includes in myself feeling gratitude per done good, a also various ways expressions this the senses. emotional and rational grade what is happening maybe help emergence such complex the senses, hoften manifestedie whom strongly ritualized.

It is a mistake to adhere to the opinion that the concept of "gratitude" does not carry a special semantic load and has an abstract meaning that the individual finds for himself. Let's compare two seemingly simple concepts based on such a pleasant, bright, clean and sonorous word "good". The good has the property of utility and is able to satisfy certain human needs - this is from the point of view of the economy. From the point of view of ethics, morality, spirituality and psychology, “good” can be replaced by the concept of “good”, and it will mean a deliberate, disinterested and sincere desire to carry out a useful deed. This act should bring happiness, joy and love to a person and can only be carried out by free will. So, to do good is to do good for a person solely at his request and with the manifestation of his free will.

AT my turn, gratitude subject to classifications:

· straight and indirect gratitude

ritual (etiquette) and emotional (personally significant)

motivated and unmotivated

verbal and non-verbal

· gratitude real addressee and gratitude higher forces.

"Gratitude is at the heart of human nature"

In order to verify this thesis: “Gratitude is the basis of human nature”, we need to trace the origins of the feeling of gratitude in the cognitive and social realities of childhood and its further development throughout life, based on ancient texts of cultural significance and the principles of human evolution.

In the source texts of Judaism and Christianity, it is stated that it was ingratitude that brought misfortune to the human race. According to the book of Genesis, Adam did not thank God for giving him a girlfriend - on the contrary, he grumbled at the Creator for the creation of a woman who led him into sin. The first people who lived in the gardens of Eden did not have enough of all the gifts of the Creator. Gratitude is characterized by modesty; Adam and Eve's desire to compare with God in knowledge and greatness was not modest. A running theme of the Pentateuch and the Old Testament is the problem of gratitude. According to the book of Genesis, the first murder is directly related to ingratitude. The sons of Adam and Eve chose various ways give praise to the Lord. Abel made a burnt offering of the firstborn lamb, and Cain offered the fruits of the earth, and the gift of Cain was not pleasing to the Lord. And Cain became so bitter because the Lord rejected his gift that he killed his own brother. Later, in the book of Leviticus, the Lord gives the people of Israel detailed instructions about burnt offerings. They had to fulfill them exactly so that the sacrifice was pleasing to the Lord (the root of the word gratitude, gratitude is gratis, which means “pleasing, pleasant”).

For a full life and development, a person needs society. The formation of society began in ancient times with small groups of hunters and gatherers. Social life skills were formed through adaptive behavioral mechanisms that allowed people to learn to get along with each other. The evolutionary basis of morality includes four qualities:

1. Skills related to sympathy

2. Characteristics associated with the norm

3. Reciprocity

4. Ability to get along with people.

In the modern world, gratitude is manifested on a more modest scale than the offering of prayer, and in a less extravagant form than the offering of human sacrifices. Modern forms thanks have forms of expressions such as: "Thank you", "Very much appreciated", "Thank you for your help", "I hope to reciprocate", and so on. A more vivid manifestation of gratitude is the presentation of a gift or the provision of any service, the manifestation of help, the fulfillment of requests. The form of manifestation of gratitude is individual and depends only on the individual, his moral perception of the concept of "gratitude", the situation and opportunities.

From the age of the first experience of attachment, the child begins to form gratitude - that is, from the moment love is formed between the infant and those who care for him (Bowlby, 1969). The most important criterion for the formation of attachment in children at the age of 1 year is the joy with which they meet loved ones after a short separation. As part of the standard laboratory experiments that are used to evaluate individual characteristics attachment in children at 1 year of age, when the mother returns after being absent for 3-6 minutes, children with persistent attachment show joy and excitement (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978). The mother easily soothes the child, anxious about separation, and provides a reliable basis for his knowledge of the world. Is it acceptable to assume that the child feels gratitude when the mother returns? On the contrary, in children with weak manifestations of attachment, reactions are noted that can be regarded as ingratitude - when the mother returns after a short absence, such children avoid her, or interfere with her actions. In writing on attachment, Erickson (1963) suggested that the development of basic trust in the first year provides a person with lifelong hope. An early experience of gratitude for caring can provide a person with positive expectations, and shape their worldview based on hope and trust.

The experience of early attachment may contain some elements of primitive gratitude, yet it lacks a key element of gratitude. According to McCullough and Tsang, gratitude is certainly an emotion, but it is an attributive emotion. Usually, we are grateful to someone and for something. Gratitude is more complex than distress, anger, joy, arousal, and sadness—rather, it refers to social emotions such as shame and guilt. These are complex feelings, implying the consolidation of awareness of oneself as the cause of what is happening, as well as the recognition of others in a similar capacity (Izard, 1977; Lewis, 1990). Clear signs of consolidation appear in the second year of life. William James (1892/1963) called this subjective self-awareness. This awareness applies to basic formations (Howe & Courage, 1997; Kagan, 1994). By this age, children develop the experience of recognizing actions, thoughts and feelings as their own. Consolidation of subjectivity - that is, basic awareness of self - paves the way for what Dennett (1987) called the intentional (volitional) stage of experience. It seems that awareness of oneself as a subject of volition (and later, awareness of other people in the same capacity) contributes to the full experience of gratitude (Toinasello, 2000), since gratitude involves a basic understanding that people from time to time want to take actions, for which you can feel gratitude towards them.

At 3-4 years of age, children continue to develop awareness of themselves and other people as subjects of will. Children understand that their actions, as well as the actions of other people, are the result of intentions. By age 3, children develop a primitive desire psychology, the first version of what some developmental psychologists call an internalized theory of consciousness (Baron-Cohen, 1995; Wellman, 1990). By this age, children understand that people's actions are based on their desires. Somewhat later, the psychology of beliefs is added to the theory of consciousness - children begin to understand that having a will, people act not only in accordance with their desires, but also in accordance with their convictions.

Because gratitude is hard social emotion, for its full development, an internalized theory of consciousness is necessary - it does not appear before 4 years. Children are able to experience and show gratitude only if they understand that other people (as well as themselves) have free will, and their behavior is motivated by desires and beliefs. In a random universe devoid of motivational factors - that is, in the inner world of autistic children (Baron-Cohen, 1995) - gratitude is impossible. For example, Sir Isaac Newton did not thank the apple that fell on his head, although it helped him understand the law of gravity (according to the legend), since the apple did not intend to do all this. The apple has no intentions, no desires, no faith. (Newton could have thanked God for the opportunity, but even so, he would have consciously turned to God.) The emotional experience of gratitude requires cognitive resources that emerge as an internalized theory of consciousness develops, since we experience gratitude only in response to conscious manifestations. Indeed, gratitude is primarily concerned with the awareness of actions - that is, desires and beliefs. You can be thankful simply for an intention that never materialized into action. We often say, "What matters is what you thought" - that is, we are grateful for the intention, no matter if the actions helped us or not.

"The role of gratitude in the relationship of personality to life"

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Gratitude can come in many forms. Researchers define it as "an emotion that arises in a person in response to receiving valuable and altruistic help from another person" or "a positive assessment of someone's abilities or atmosphere that contributes to success in work."

No matter what definition scientists give, one fact is indisputable: the feeling of gratitude or its expression has a beneficial effect on our emotional and physical condition. According to social psychologist Robert Emmons, the simple word "thank you" can have a positive impact on our lives. The UCLA professor doesn't mean a simple mechanical thank you. We can say dozens of such words a day. When they held the door for us, gave us a coat, gave us business papers, we say thank you, because this is a courtesy tribute. But it is necessary to say words of gratitude meaningfully, then they will benefit us ourselves. The brain perceives it in the following way. First, he notes that the person gave us a gift. It can be a material thing, moral support or help. Then the brain understands that the gift has value. Again, not necessarily material value, perhaps we are aware of the effort that was put into this gift. Finally, we see the source of the gift, which is not ourselves. Moreover, the donor is also another person, and even life itself. If we translate this statement into the plane of work, then we get the following benefits:

a more positive atmosphere

more satisfied/happy and optimistic employees,

Less stress level

More efficient teamwork

a culture of mutual assistance

lower levels of absenteeism

Strengthening of physical health.

Now consider the scientific justification for all of the above.

Gratitude improves emotional state

Bydataresearch,publishedin2007 yearin Journal of Research in personality, "gratitude It has unique meaning for states human and his social life." Study demonstrated Existence connections between gratitude and state human, independent of personal factors (extroversion, neuroticism, openness to new things, conscientiousness, tractability). Feeling and expressing gratitude has also been shown to result in lower levels of stress and depression over time, and higher levels of social support.

The authors scientific work call on clinicians to use gratitude as a clinical tool, equating gratitude skills with behavioral skills to help overcome negative beliefs.

Grateful people are ready to sacrifice personal interests for the sake of achieving the common good.

A study published in 2010 in the Journal of the American Psychological Association found that "gratitude enhances cooperative behavior."

Even when interacting with a group of strangers, without the prospect of reciprocity, those who felt grateful made decisions for the benefit of the entire group, even if they went against their personal interests. Gratitude, researchers have found, has a direct and positive impact on decision making.

Grateful people get along better with other people.

Researchers link gratitude to an already habitual positive state of mind and a wide range of adaptive personality traits that contribute to the development and maintenance of good relationships: “Grateful people are less aggressive, hostile, depressed and emotionally vulnerable. They are more likely to experience positive emotions. Gratitude is also correlated with personal characteristics that contribute to successful interaction in society and are manifested in emotional warmth, sociability, active search, trust, altruism and compassion. Also, grateful people are more open in expressing own feelings, ideas and values.

Grateful people sleep better

A 2012 study by a group of Chinese scientists looked at the association of gratitude and sleep quality with symptoms of anxiety and depression. They found a correlation between higher levels of gratitude and best quality sleep, less anxiety and depression.

The data of this study are continued in the work of scientists from the University of Manchester. According to them, good sleep, in turn, improves memory, stabilizes weight, reduces stress, increases creativity and mindfulness.

Grateful people achieve more

Researchers from the University of California asked participants in one group of subjects to keep a daily note of what makes them feel grateful. The other two groups were given the task of recording the causes of their irritation or everyday everyday observations. The first group compared with the second and third showed a significant improvement in decision-making, attention, enthusiasm and vigor.

The authors of the work published in Journal of Happiness Studies found that the most grateful students had the most friends and the best academic performance.

Grateful people are willing to help others

In an experiment conducted in 2006 at Northeastern University, the following situation was created: the computers of the participants were deliberately disabled, and a specialist came to their aid. In the future, those people he helped were more likely to help their colleagues with their other tasks. As research has shown, gratitude has a much greater power than the ability to improve mood.

Grateful people are less aggressive

An experiment was conducted at the University of Kentucky in which some students received praise for their essay, while others received harsh marks. Then the study participants took part in a game against experts who evaluated their work, where the so-called white noise was used as a weapon. In general, offended students “rewarded” their opponents with chunks of louder noise. But some of them were asked to preliminarily write about those things for which they were grateful to certain people or circumstances. And those who completed this task were less likely to retaliate against their critics with white noise.

Gratitude is more than just nice feeling, says Nathan DeWall, author of the study. "It reduces people's aggressiveness by increasing empathy."

Grateful people have better physical health

Scientists from the University of Connecticut have found that gratitude reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. According to expert Robert Emmons, it also strengthens immune system, lowers blood pressure, reduces the symptoms of diseases, raises the pain threshold and generally encourages us to take care of our health.

Gratitude also speeds up recovery. So, it was found that patients with transplanted donor organs, who kept diaries, where they wrote about everything that made them feel grateful, showed better performance. physical condition and vitality than those who made standard diary entries.

Grateful people are more resilient to trauma

Observations of Vietnam War veterans have shown that gratitude plays a large role in maintaining emotional balance after experiencing a traumatic life experience.

It turns out that a written expression of gratitude also has its advantages. Professor Steve Toepfer has studied the impact of writing thank you letters on happiness, life satisfaction, and depression.

“The more people wrote, the less depressive symptoms became,” Toepfer says. -- Study participants spent 15-20 minutes writing each letter, and they did it once every seven days for 3 weeks. As a result, their indicators of happiness and life satisfaction improved significantly.”

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania got similar results when they asked participants in an experiment to write and personally deliver thank you letter to someone who has never before been properly thanked for his/her kindness. The subjects showed a huge and immediate increase in happiness scores. The impact was greater than any other factor and lasted for a whole month.

To prove the fact that gratitude has a significant impact on people, Robert Emmons, along with Michael McCulloch, developed a special experiment. It was attended by several hundred people who were disbanded into 3 groups. Each group was given a task. The first group recorded experiences in the diary every day, the second group had to write down unpleasant sensations. The third group noted and wrote down all the phenomena or people that caused a feeling of gratitude. According to the results of the experiment, the third group was more positive and optimistic, all things were done with pleasure. Also, people from the third group took great care of themselves and began to go in for sports. Decreased anxiety and worries about their own health. According to Robert Emmons, these positive changes were due to gratitude. People noted it, fixed it, so they became more positive. You need to constantly see the reasons for gratitude. Good words have an impact not only on us, but also on those around us. If you express gratitude to another person, then he will be more grateful, his feelings will become warm. People will appreciate us, and this is very important. In other words, this allows you to create a special cycle - the cycle of good.

Figure 1 Adaptation Cycle of Gratitude and Happiness

Figure 1 shows the suggestion by scientists Dan P. McAdams, Jack J. Bauer that gratitude and happiness feed off each other in a more adaptive sense. Those who are more likely to respond in the form of gratitude to life situations should be happier, in general, due to increased pleasure from life's blessings, increased consolidation and memories of positive life events, as well as other possible mechanisms.

Gratitude, mutual benefit and culture

Gratitude: “The moral memory of mankind”

The sociological view of gratitude focuses on the interpersonal relationships and social interactions in which gratitude takes shape. Gratitude has always been present in the relationship between the two parties. The ability to be grateful and generous develops in the context of social connection. The main function of giving gifts (creating social bonds) can, of course, be illustrated by the interaction between mother and child. The connection is preserved and remains intact only if there is some degree of positive mutual benefit. Gratitude plays a critical role in establishing and maintaining social reciprocity. In the early twentieth century, the sociologist Georg Simmel wrote his beautiful essay "Devotion and Gratitude" (1908/1950), one of several texts that directly addresses the issue of gratitude. He called gratitude “the moral memory of mankind” (p. 388). Through mutual giving, people become connected to each other with a network of feelings of gratitude. Gratitude is the motive that calls for giving in return, and thereby creates mutual benefit of service and mutual service. Although it has some psychological feelings at its core, its main function is social, according to Simmel. The functions of gratitude are to implement a chain of mutual benefit. The exchange of gifts and the accompanying feelings of gratitude are the main system of mutual obligations between people, and therefore serve as the moral cement of human society and culture. Simmel addresses the role of gratitude in stimulation social life communities. Gratitude connects people with what has gone before, and gives them a sense of wholeness of life with the ability to influence each other. Simmel did a theoretical experiment imagining what would happen if every act of gratitude based on past blessings suddenly disappeared—society would definitely disintegrate. Gratitude not only creates and smoothes interpersonal relationships; it, in fact, also performs important communication functions in society and culture.

Gratitude, Power, Addiction

Thus, gratitude can be said to be positive emotion and the social force that brings communities together and binds them. However, gratitude is not always the positive and problem-free phenomenon that we would like it to be, but it can be complicated by issues of power and dependency. For example, the principle of mutual benefit may be violated in the case of various reciprocal gifts. One party may not have sufficient resources to meet the other party's expectations of what constitutes an appropriate return gift. Power can be about mutual benefit, causing an asymmetry where one side feels or is actually obligated to give much more than the other. In such cases, gratitude will look different than in a situation dominated by more or less symmetrical mutual benefit.

The sociologist Alvin Gouldner (1960) was the first to think about the role of power in a situation of asymmetric mutual benefit. Consideration should be given to the respective levels of resources of the giver and recipient, as well as the needs of the recipient and the freedom of the giver to choose whether or not to give a gift. Giving may be forced by other people or by strong normative expectations to do so, thereby limiting the spontaneity and voluntariness of gift giving. This may have an effect on feelings of gratitude. Unfortunately Gouldner, like most of his fellow sociologists and anthropologists, did not address this particular issue.

As is often the case with truly fundamental problems, several interesting views have been proposed in the literature that are notoriously lacking in the field of social science. The Russian writer and poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1917/2000), who wrote most of her work immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917, had a very unusual but illuminating view of the plasticity of gratitude. She deeply doubted the principles of the Bolsheviks and their brutal political tactics. This distrust was mutual. The Bolsheviks considered Tsvetaeva an enemy element and forbade the publication of her work, forcing her to live with her two small children in a very cold room in her parents' house. Poverty and hunger made her dependent on alms offered to her from time to time by friends and acquaintances. In such a situation, gratitude is quite different from what we are used to. How does the poor person feel towards the giver when receiving a piece of bread, and what kind of expectations does the giver have?

Tsvetaeva (1917/2000) analyzed this example, taken literally from her own life, as discussed below. This is not a real giver and not a real recipient, each person is reflected in their actions, but simply provides a helping hand and receives help so as not to die of hunger. When bread enters the stomach, it has nothing to do with being a giver or a receiver. In this act of exchange, only two pieces of meat are involved. Therefore, it is absurd for a piece of meat to demand gratitude from others. Gratitude, in this case, will develop into love for money (prostitution) and can directly offend the giver as well as the recipient. As Tsvetaeva said, only a soul can be grateful, but only because of another soul. “Thank you for your existence. The rest is offensive” (pp. 200-201). Otherwise, only tacit gratitude is acceptable - gratitude not expressed in words or actions, since the true expression of gratitude already includes some reproach or humiliation of the giver: he or she has something that the recipient does not have (a painful confrontation between what a person has and does not have). The best solution in this case is to give, receive and then quickly forget about it in order to prevent any feelings of gratitude from developing at all; give and go, receive and go without any consequences. With such a relationship of unequal power, the moral obligation to express gratitude is pejorative and discourages the development of lasting relationships.

In the preceding sections, we have seen that gratitude is a personal valuable contribution as well as a moral virtue, a faculty that everyone should learn. Moreover, gratitude has been analyzed as a moral deviation from mutual benefit. Acting under a moral obligation to give back, gratitude not only serves to strengthen bonding at the level of social relationships, but is also a means of achieving social unification and building a common culture. It is important at this point to emphasize that the sense of duty is not in any way opposed to gratitude, but rather is its moral core.

Conclusion

There are several virtues that not only come from gratitude, but also contribute to its manifestation. It is mercy, humility and generosity. Cicero said that the most necessary quality that he would like to have is the ability to express gratitude. He called it the mother of virtues.

Scientists Robert Emmons and Michael McCulloch have found the answer to the question why religious people experience more happiness in life than everyone else. After all, they, according to the philosopher Beranger Casini, accept any messages of fate. Therefore, gratitude to a person is akin to the grace of God. Priest Vladimir Zelinsky also speaks about this. He calls gratitude the message of God. The message that we receive without being able to speak, without realizing our own faith.

All of these studies show that experiencing gratitude and creating conditions - for yourself or your employees / colleagues / loved ones - to feel and express gratitude, yield valuable results. “We have an amazing resource at our disposal: gratitude,” says Steve Toepfer. - It helps us express ourselves and enjoy life, appreciate it and get satisfaction. This resource is available to everyone, and we should use it to improve the quality of our own lives.”

There is several virtues which not only are happening from thanks, but and contribute her manifestation. it mercy, humility and generosity. Cicero spoke, what most necessary quality, which he wanted would have - this is skill express gratitude. He called his mother virtues.

Literature

· Envy and gratitude. The study of unconscious sources. Melanie Klein, 1997.

· Moral letters to Lutsliy. Letter LXXXI. Seneca the Younger.

Who and for what did the poets thank. Iza Kresikova.

About gratitude. Marina Tsvetaeva, 1919.

· Journal of Research in Personality.

1. Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978.

2. Bowlby, 1969.

3. Izard, 1977; Lewis, 1990.

· Journal of Happiness Studies.

1. Howe & Courage, 1997.

3. Toinasello, 2000.

4. Baron-Cohen, 1995.

Clinical Psychology Review.

1. Nathan DeWall.

2. Alvin Gouldner, 1960.

3 Wellman, 1990.

4. Alvin Gouldner, 1960.

gratitude in the modern world. Dan P. McAdams, Jack J. Bauer.

· Devotion and Gratitude, p. 388. Georg Simmel.

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“Gratitude is the magic potion for all ailments. It is the fastest way to dispel anxiety, get rid of disappointment and change a negative attitude into a positive one. When gratitude takes the place of value judgments, peace embraces your body, kindness embraces your soul, and wisdom fills your mind.

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Feeling gratitude is an easy way to switch from the victim consciousness, get out of the gap, expand your consciousness and raise your vibrations. This is help in forgiveness, acceptance of yourself and the situation.

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7 Benefits of Gratitude

1. Gratitude teaches you to appreciate what you have.

If a person lacks something, he often asks the higher powers to help him get it.

Thus increasing the scarcity in your life.

Try to act differently. When you catch yourself thinking that you are complaining that you don’t have something, you weren’t given enough, stop and think about how often YOU thank for what you receive.

Are you discounting the gifts that the universe is giving you?

Try to find what can you thank life for. Focus not on what you don't have, but on what you already have.

You have eyes and you can see - give thanks for that. After all, there are people who are not given this from birth.

You have housing, food. And thousands of people on the planet have no roof over their heads, they are starving.

You have life - you are alive. Isn't that a reason to be grateful?

Wallet stolen? Instead of regretting the last money, be grateful that you came out unscathed. Money can be earned, but health is much more difficult to restore.

The human mind is designed in such a way that people accept the benefits by default - as they should be, and focus on what is not.

Feel dissatisfied if something is taken away. As in the proverb: "Having - we do not store, having lost - we cry."

Train yourself to appreciate what you have. Use for this.

Play the game that the heroine of the movie "Polyanna" played. The meaning of the game was to find something good and useful for yourself in trouble.

2. Gratitude helps you get out of failure.

If you feel that you have failed, a quick and affordable way to return to a resourceful state is focus on gratitude.

When you choose gratitude at the moment of failure, it’s like a switch goes off inside of you. It's like you're transported to another reality.

Just a minute ago, you saw only black, white and gray, and with a sense of gratitude, a much larger spectrum of colors becomes available to your eyes.

It is more difficult at this moment to find something for which you can thank.

3. Gratitude promotes healing

By switching to the vibration of gratitude, you heal the body and soul. This emotion vibrates at a high frequency, second only to love and peace.

By radiating it, you gradually rewrite your personal vibration and heal your physical body.

Any illness is a signal that a person is doing something wrong in life. Thank your body for the pain, even if you can't figure out why. The answer will surely come.

Gratitude heals the heart chakra. This is useful for those who have it blocked. As you radiate gratitude, you gradually melt the ice in your heart and allow yourself to experience feelings.

4. Feeling Gratitude Helps You Forgive and Accept

Allowing yourself to thank the offenders, you are freed from the anger and resentment that has fettered you for a long time. Gratitude Helps feel true forgiveness acceptance of the situation and release from destructive emotions.

This needs to be decided. Because you become vulnerable. But the one who chooses gratitude never loses.

When you choose to see the true meaning of an unfavorable situation, you move from being a victim to being a creator.

In other words, you expand your consciousness, and what you have not seen before becomes available to you.

You gain the understanding that you have nothing to forgive for, because you have already found the answer. You can only thank and treat the situation and the people who participated in it with understanding and acceptance.

Read the article which details what true forgiveness is and how to achieve it.

5. Gratitude allows you to see the soul of a person, dissolves hatred

When you choose not to judge a person and open up to the true meaning and lesson they taught you, you become strong and able to radiate gratitude for the experience you have had.

Gratitude is the key to see the soul in another person to look at what happened from a different angle. You already see not the culprit and the offended, but the learning process in which each of you gains valuable experience.

When you are able to thank a person for a lesson, you enter a completely new path, and you can see new horizons that were not available to you without it.

Gratitude Disarms the Opponent. His manipulations against you stop working. You see his true essence, but look at him already without hatred, but with a sense of compassion.

6. Feeling grateful helps you love yourself.

Thank not only life, relatives and teachers, but also yourself. For mistakes - without them you would not have gained certain experience, you would not have learned something new.

For achievements - this is how you learn to value and respect yourself. Gratitude helps you accept yourself. You learn to forgive yourself and take good care of yourself.

7. Gratitude opens the way to unconditional love.

Not everyone is able to love unconditionally, but to experience gratitude is available to everyone.

If you really want to experience unconditional love with all your heart, but so far it doesn’t work out, practice thanksgiving as often as possible.

You will gradually rewrite your vibrations to higher ones and open your heart to love.

All the benefits of gratitude cannot be listed. I have given only a few arguments that show its power and transformative properties.

Gratitude is positive energy.

Gratitude is not only a feeling, but an emotional and logical phenomenon, when feelings arise on the basis of certain thoughts.

Therefore, if a person does not consider it necessary to feel gratitude for something to someone, then he will not experience it. And when you feel gratitude to the Creator, this will be true transformation through the heart.

Gratitude is an internal wish for good, expressed in external actions.

Gratitude is a feeling and state of gratitude for the received or given kindness, care, attention, warm relations, it is gratitude for help and everything desired. The feeling of gratitude is the ability to see and recognize the good and good in the environment.

The ability to give thanks is the highest ability to notice and celebrate all the good that is around a person.

A grateful person is a happy person.

There is a law of gratitude, and if you want to get the results you expect, then you absolutely need to study this law.

What is the law of gratitude and how does it work?

This law is an application of the law of cause and effect.

The law of gratitude is a natural law that says that action is equal to reaction and opposite to it in direction.

If we put energy into something, we thereby demand that it come true. Therefore, it is very important to direct positive energy towards what we want.

Gratitude is very important because it is an extremely positive energy vibration of thought. She has a powerful attraction.

Thanks to her, we gain a connection with the Source. You cannot use significant energy without expressing gratitude, because it is thanks to it that you maintain your connection with the source of power.

The creative power within us transforms us into the image we give our attention to. A grateful mind constantly concentrates on the best, therefore, it acquires the best. When gratitude becomes a way of life, success, happiness, and health become the norm.

When we experience anger, fear, sadness, or depression, we have lost our sense of gratitude. Gratitude is the key to a happy, healthy, successful life. It sustains us and draws to us what we want.

We become the magnet of our happiness. When we give thanks to life, life rewards us. When we feel gratitude, people, like the wealth of the universe, are attracted to us.

Gratitude is the willingness to take help when needed and to give help when possible.

Gratitude is one of the best moral qualities person; without gratitude, neither respect, nor nobility, nor humanity is possible.

Gratitude is the ability to share a lot and enjoy a little.

Gratitude is the ability to find something positive in every person and in every situation; at least acquired life experience.

Gratitude is the only way to become happy man Here and now.

Gratitude provides opportunities - for an optimistic outlook on life.

Gratitude reveals talent - love and respect for people and the world.

Gratitude gives strength - even in the negative to find and appreciate the good.

Gratitude Gives Freedom - in Expression better feelings and doing better things.

Gratitude gives faith - that any event is filled with meaning.

Knowledgeable people say - "thank you."

This expression is also formed from two roots of different words: Blessing + GIVE. By pronouncing this phrase, we share a part of our good and thus we repay good for good personally, we mutually give good as a gift.

That is good for good, good for good.

Knowing the true meaning of words, you can thank good man and protect yourself from evil. The sound code inherent in the words initially works even in an abbreviated version. Everyone needs gratitude, it brings good to the world. To give thanks is to give good, it is always pleasant for a person, it causes good and joyful feelings in the soul.

We must always be grateful for everything we have, and we will definitely receive more. It is necessary to express gratitude, then a cloud of positive will form around. It is necessary to teach children to see goodness around them, and to thank for it.

It is necessary to say THANK YOU to everything good in life, to everything good, and in return you will receive reciprocity from the Universe. How to Develop Thank You. Do not forget about this in everyday life simple word- and you will take a step towards finding gratitude. Creativity. Find different ways to express your gratitude.

Be creative!

Refusal of selfishness. Narcissism and gratitude are incompatible; by doing the work of consciously giving up self-admiration, a person approaches the acquisition of gratitude. Interest in the environment. It is interest that helps a person to be grateful to life - for every day lived.

Family relationships.

Do not forget and do not hesitate to show gratitude towards loved ones - this is important for gaining the opportunity to be grateful.

It's hard to be grateful when there's a lack of something. These beliefs lead to competitive thinking, the basic idea being that in order to get what you want, you have to take it away from someone else.

This belief system fuels fear and anxiety. How easy is it for each person to be grateful if they think the universe is designed to be a difficult place to live? Especially if his own thinking continues to generate situations in his life that confirm the validity of such an assumption.

When we give thanks for the circumstances and events in our lives that we have to overcome, and at the same time realize that the grace of wisdom descends on us from this test, the very act of gratitude transforms negative experience into positive.

When we express gratitude, we attract people and circumstances for which we will be grateful. Gratitude fills our hearts with joy and allows us to see the truth, which empowers us to make the right decisions and take the appropriate steps.

With a grateful heart, we will be able to see the best in every situation and in everyone we meet, to bring out the best in them. If criticizing and condemning other people robs you of positive energy, then gratitude fills you with energy. Replace criticism and condemnation with gratitude.

Gratitude is the wealth of your soul. Gratitude is positive energy. How much gratitude you have for this world, people, yourself, your soul is so rich!

Try practicing gratitude in your life and you will see how your life will improve in a noticeable way. Gratitude is a warm feeling, don't confuse it with guilt and the desire to get rid of the person by hastily saying words of gratitude and trying to give him something in return.

Gratitude is the ability to recognize the good in others.

Just accept all the good that comes to you with a sense of gratitude and love. Pearls of wisdom about gratitude. There is no quality I would like to possess to such an extent as the ability to be grateful. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but also the mother of all other virtues.

Cicero - Let the one who gave be silent; let him who has received speak.

Cervantes - All our lamentations about what we are deprived of stem from a lack of gratitude for what we have.

What is gratitude?

Gratitude is the ability to appreciate the good that others do to us and to express it. Gratitude is a manifestation of justice.

In justice, good is rewarded with good, and evil is punished with evil.

Paid work is built on the principle of gratitude. At the same time, one person does good in some form (does work for someone), and the other pays for this work in gratitude.

Satanic opposites:ingratitude.

How gratitude is shown:

• Gratitude is shown by word of mouth: "Thank you!", "Thank you!" etc.

• Gratitude can be expressed in writing: diploma, gratitude, postcard, letter, sms, etc.

• Gratitude can be expressed in material form: reward, bonus, material reward, including financial, salary.

• Gratitude can be shown in business: do good in return, repay good for good, service for service, etc.

Why gratitude is needed

Gratitude in the Life of Jesus

• Jesus thanked God the Father for food and drink: « And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the people» (Matthew 15:36). " And he took the cup and gave thanks, gave it to them and said, Drink from it all» (Matthew 26:27).

• Jesus thanked the Father for answered prayers: « Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: Father! thank you that you heard me"(John 11:41).

• Jesus appreciated the grateful attitude of people. This is clearly seen when a group of lepers came to him for healing and when Jesus healed them. Only one of the healed returned to Jesus to thank Him. Here is what the Bible says about it: One of them, seeing that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice, and fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him; and that was a Samaritan. Then Jesus said, Were not ten cleansed? where is nine? how did they not return to give glory to God, except for this foreigner? And he said to him: get up, go; your faith saved you"(Luke 17:15-19).

TIPS FOR DEVELOPING GRATITUDE IN YOURSELF:

The basis for the formation and development of any quality of character arebasic principles , outlined in the main article (you can read them). To develop gratitude at home, you should constantly fight with youringratitude and practice gratitude in everything. You may find the following tips helpful: