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On the flip side, when we feel grateful for our work and colleagues, and when our employer expresses gratitude for our valuable input, we can cope better with the stressful demands and pressures that a job places on us. Gratitude also promotes positive appraisals of our work, and we feel motivated to perform to a higher standard. Despite these psychological and behavioral benefits, gratitude has not been well studied in a workplace context....

But she says the mental impact was more difficult—the feelings of fear and loneliness her new body inspired, not being able to do the things she used to. That drew her to Thailand, where she attended her first meditation retreat. Shapiro, now an author and professor of psychology at Santa Clara University, has conducted two decades of research into the health benefits of mindfulness. In this Tedx Talk from the fall, she talks about her personal journey to learning mindfulness, as well as how meditation and mindfulness can affect our health:...

That part is almost entirely wrong. Three days later, I get off a plane in Shanghai. Lights are streaming all around me from the city’s 7,000 skyscrapers, each of them bathed in a different neon glow, purple or electric blue or green. A Maglev train, flying a few inches above the ground, whisks me into the heart of the labyrinth at 250 miles per hour. I walk through narrow alleyways, Chinese characters exploding around me, and all the teeming energies of 23 million people trying to make their future before tomorrow....

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