Best Practice:
Gratitude Jar
Created by L. Dorlus
Gratitude
- Keeping a Gratitude Jar is one of the most powerful things you can do to create huge positive changes within your life.
- Focusing on what you have to be grateful for forces you to not only become a more positive person - but to attract more positive situations into your life.
Gratitude group activity:
- Write down something you are grateful for on a small piece of paper.
- Place the piece of paper in a jar without signing your name to it.
- Pass the jar around and pick out a piece of paper and read it aloud.
Research on gratitude
Positive outcomes include:
- Fewer emotional and physical symptoms
- Stronger relationships and communities
- Happier (by up to 25%)
- More alert, enthusiastic, attentive
- Promotes altruistic behavior and self-esteem
- Less importance on material goods
- More positive attitudes towards school & life
www.mindfulteachers.org