Robert Emmons offers everyday tips for living a life of gratitude. Establish a daily practice in which you remind yourself of the gifts, grace, benefits, and good thing you enjoy. Setting aside time on a daily basis to recall moments of gratitude associated with ordinary events, your personal attributes, or valued people in your life gives you the potential to interweave a sustainable life theme of gratefulness. To be grateful in your current state, it is helpful to remember the hard times that you once experienced. When you remember how difficult life used to be and how have come, you set up an explicit contrast in your mind, and this contrast is fertile ground for gratefulness. Utilize the meditation technique known as Naikan, which involves reflecting on three questions: "What have I received from?", "What troubles and difficulty have I caused?" In many spiritual traditions, prayers of gratitude are considered to be the most powerful form of prayer, because through these prayers people recognize the ultimate source of all they are and all they will ever be. Through our senses- the ability to touch, see, smell, taste, and hear- we gain an appreciation of what it means to be human and of what an incredible miracle it is to be alive. Seen through the lens of gratitude, the human body is not only a miraculous construction, but also a gift. Because the two primary obstacles to gratefulness are forgetfulness and a lack of mindful awareness, visual reminders can serve as cues to trigger thoughts of gratitude. Often times, the best visual reminders are other people.