An Experiment in Gratitude | The Science of Happiness

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So I can't click on the study. What is the link to that?

Wow! This clip is awesome! It's short and sweet!
I'm going to use it for my Sunday school class and lets see how it goes!

I know this is not being grateful... But how do 700 peeps dislike this video? Lol. Maybe they're just going through an especially tough time. So prayers for you. Thanks, SoulPancake!

I clicked on the book but it just paused the video:c
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What is the link to the study about Gratitude? Thank you!

Did anyone else cry? Or am I just emotionally unstable? ;P

yayyyyyyyy :)

How do i get access to this study?

So cute

Omg I need that man to make audible children's books. His voice is everything

hello the link for the study is not working could you please send it.. thanks

'Trust me...I'm in a lab coat' LOL!

I watched this video for my BLUE 101 class at KCKCC and I found it to be very exhilarating! It's nice when we can stop and share a moment with the person that has given joy and support to our lives. Thank you for this video! I do believe that this video can go viral. I am going to share it and challenge the people I know to take your test and continue to share this video. Wish me luck or happiness! :)

gratitude rocks! We have so much to be thankful for - health, family, friends, just being alive to experience today. Use your time to learn a new skill, make new friends, volunteer, or reconnect with your family. Life is too short to worry all the time.

Tears... and somehow this really works!

This video inspired me to do a series called the Gratitude Project here on TVclip! Thank you!

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I didn't like this. I found the 'they made me call you' comments worrying, this isn't what I would call an 'ethical' experiment. I would have liked to see someone say no, I am not going to call anyone. Also, as an anti-theist, I felt sorry for the guy that felt it necessary to thank Jesus for his existence, and extremely annoyed that once again that they feel the need to push religion on us at every opportunity. I also notice they employed the usual approach of selecting for maximum diversity. So overall, nice idea, terrible execution.

I loved watching this experiment!!! Gratitude makes life better.

During the 40 days of lent, I chose one person to send a text to each day. In the text I expressed what they meant to me and how they had positively influenced my life. I loved doing it and those who received the texts seemed to like it to.

I am grateful for the green grass and the blue sky. I am grateful to be free and have no major obligations right now. I am grateful for the kindness and wisdom of those around me, and their efforts to sustain and promote goodness in the world.
When my way of life yields its unique jewel, either in meditation, in amidst the flow of every day life, its jewel being the lotus flower of satori, there is no expression suitable for the thanks that my soul has.
What has made me flexible and relaxed all these years is that simple insight, or satori, of true emptiness. What has allowed me to sustain my beginner's mind and beginner's heart is the mathematical truth that there is simply none.
Starting from that point, I am able to extricate myself from a mind that flows like a river, from illusion to illusion, I am able to effect reality and truly live because it does not bind me as an absolute. Like watching a graph or matrix, I am aware of the eternal cosmic emptiness in it all, rather than only of the binary input information.
Paradoxically, there are ways to strengthen our root to this liberating and infinite emptiness (which is akin to energy) one being the act of writing and attempting to reflect it in poignant words such as sutras.
Each time I awaken to the truth, then express it, I am fastening it to a world that will otherwise be unconscious of itself. Therefore I am thankful for language because it serves as a doorway to freedom. The more clear reflection of reality, the less pain because the true possibility remains apparent. The energy is free, not blocked by the mind's games.
Emptiness reflects fullness.
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I am grateful for the power of thought vibration. As I go to school, the thoughts uplift me, I realize there is a deeper truth than I initially expected within it all. I feel, in the intellectual thoughts a satori based not in mere survival but actual transcendence.
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Nodo - throat in nihongo
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I see a fair world, a balanced world (almost surrealistically so, as if it were an intended depiction of balance in everything - LOGOS EROS) of mathematical virtue. A world whose ultimate essence is 0, and yet play.
遊び
It is not that which you see, it is that which you say; the flexibility of true zero is such.
With the realization that this is a grid, and that our existence within it is merely a code not necessarily ultimate truth, we come to the wonder of gift of language. Its perhaps not the terms themselves but the context of the terms, what we are using them to describe.
The experience of a school, and a fairly basic one at that is what seems truly alive, while almost everything else is only halfway conscious. Could it be that the terms are describing a school?
A school that can only be activated by communication and not by pure learning itself for the sake of outward awards.
Suddenly there's no limit to what is possible, with the clarification that there is no real physical component to this.
When it becomes about communicating with the world around you and even manifesting the greatest potential out of what can rightly be called even mathematically illusion, it becomes directly relevant to ones life.
The most basic skill, not compartmentalizing everything
Black and white
Young old
Male female
Spring summer winter fall
If the math is showing you that really it is nothing, you begin to recieve zen.
You are not 'gaijin', you are not gauging. You are purely experiencing.
At first it seems like merely using a discordant label, you have called it purple when really it is teal, later however, when the initial impulse to immediately label and clamp everything down dissipates you begin to see new colors you never experienced before.
Then you have Japanese or hebrew (haskalah); languages that are designed as doorways back to the unconditioned mind, the place within is that is always new undesecrated and 'holy', set aside from the mundane world that is entirely grid based.
It's one thing to know it mentally and another to root it as a reflection of the truth of consciousness in written communication in the world.
In this practice, we are in effect being our most effective in our lives and rooting everything directly to the best and most sublime even when that seems paradoxical (the best is few and the common many, right? But if we are able to transcend our own graphs and limits each day, or however often we like, without destroying the system itself, simply allowing it doorways in and out for each priceless soul within it to breathe in effect we realize that even those best things actually are available to us all, though physically we cant understand how.)

There appear to be an unanswered question in this science experiment - an explanation of the measure used to determine level of happiness? How was this done?

Yes it is. Even if u are grateful for can breathing easily you could be happy.

Makes me stop and think about who not what I am grateful for in my life. I find it easy to find gratitude in life when I am in a good mood but have a difficult time finding it when I am feeling frustrated or angry. tvclip.biz/video/kRllnno5vPQ/video.html

Wow - tears are flowing. i dont know why but they are - I love to see people experience happiness i guess. Love this

Julian.. you're awesome buddy :) This video is just too beautiful!
Whenever I'm having a hard time starting my daily gratitude practice.. I watch this video.. and I have tears of joy every single time after watching it.. and it makes it easier to go ahead with my gratitude practice.. :)

You guys are doing great! :) Keep rocking! :)

I am grateful that I am a kid

'Hey Sweetheart' ... wow so this was not staged at all...

Can I like it thrice?

History's subject makes me the happiest person ever alive!

This made me happy :))

One day I Tried to do this exercise on a workshop about happiness at work and nobody wanted to do it. Nobody wanted to make the call. It was very disappointed to me as relator. Could you recommend me a way to ask people do this without they feel uncomfortable?

Who else’s teacher played this in class smh 😂

Gratitude is a key recipe for happiness. Find something simple everyday to be thankful for.
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i sucked someone's toe and they were really happy. from 2% to 100%

I'll trust anyone in a lab coat

I truly enjoyed watching this video, and plan to share with my department. I think this would be a great exercise for us all! Thank you for sharing!

So how did you record and analyse the biochemical activity of the brain's reward system?

2:05....she says hey sweetheart right after the ringing..how she know it was him?

Thank you soul pancake you have be my beng each you for about 2 miners now and love you

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wow i love this channel

Which is the study? The CLICK HERE to read the study doesn't work.

It's great for adults. I wanted to share it in my classroom but they don't bleep out the word "ass" at 5:19 which is a shame =( It could be useful in grade level classrooms. If you remake this please let me know..... sorry it can't be on my list.

IS there any chance there is a version of this video without the 2 curse words? I would like to show this to my students, but I need it to not have the curse words.

I'm so thankful for my family.

I tried to click on the study and there is no link. Please provide the link!

I hope they know how lucky they are to have that person still around!

I love this video....however because of the two cusses near the end....I can't show it to my students which makes me really sad....if they covered her mouth for both and not just the sound of one I would.... things to consider SoulPancake ! Great video.

Who else thinks that scientist looks like a human version of Wheatley from Portal 2?

It would be amazing to listen what the man would say to the accounting teacher.

I loved that video #heartwarming

thank you Julian, very cool

I thought of a boy I was in class with. Then he said they should call this person... Well I would not be able to do it bc he's already dead..😔

Watching this made me happy

This is the best part about Gratitude

Just because someone says I'm a doctor, or trust me or scientists have proven- it doesn't make it prove a point until there's evidence for it.

Also, gratitude to oneself. Find a mirror, smile at yourself until you think you're stupid, then thank that you for smiling at yourself. This process hacked for the solo flier.

I've been doing a gratitude challenge for 2 months. Write 3 things you are grateful for. Even if your upset. Everyday. Even small things. It has made me more aware of this short life and seriously more grateful than I have ever been. It takes less than 5 minutes and gives you more perspective. And made me around 70-80% better mood, wiser, it is awesome. And thank you ♡