What Gratitude Actually Does

The Neuroscience, the Wisdom Traditions, and the Biology of the State the Self-Help Industry Missed

What if gratitude is doing something far deeper than making you feel positive? At the center of this book is a simple question: why does getting what we want so often fail to make us feel that we have enough? The answer begins with what this book calls the gap — the continuous calculation between what is and what we believe should be. Drawing from neuroscience, positive psychology, and contemplative traditions including Buddhist psychology, Vedic philosophy, Sufi thought, and Taoism. An investigation into what gratitude actually is — and what becomes possible when consciousness stops organizing itself around what is missing.

by Nikita Datar

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