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explain "practicing gratitude"
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Hey, so I keep hearing NTs talk about "practicing gratitude". Is this real, or just a virtue signal? I'm already keenly aware of what resources I have and don't have (like, I've been homeless so yeah every day I lowkey think "Good thing I'm not homeless right now, that would suck and this is much better!"). Are they saying sit down every day and just make a list of your resources (material and interpersonal) and... then do what? Who/what are you grateful TO? Wouldn't the emotion be more like relief? Do they sit there and go "Thanks for my house. Thanks for my car! Thanks for my kid. Thanks for my dog!" ? It seems really weird and I don't get how this could do or help anything. It's always on their lists of how to feel good/better (I'm seeing a lot of it lately bc of everyone supposedly having trouble managing their quarantine emotions, which I'm not experiencing at all). Can someone please explain exactly what this means materially, what is supposed to happen "inside" in this process (is it a physical feeling?), and why it's good? Explain from the very basic up and very explicitly/concretely if possible; I am very weak in my emotional knowledge/understanding. This is not a rhetorical post.

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