Cultivating Gratitude

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This class will thoroughly examine an incredibly potent healing phenomenon and modality-the power of generating and cultivating gratitude. We will read many different perspectives on the notion of gratitude, and examine different cultural and social manifestations of the act including: ritual, mythology, prayer, affirmation, meditation, and sacred text. This course will also look at the research of gratitude through the lens of modern science. What effects does it have on the brain? How does the act of gratitude transform the individual, the family system, society, and the planet at large? Come prepared for an interdisciplinary journey that has the power to penetrate the human soul and the world soul in profoundly rewarding ways.