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Comment author: Johnny 12 April 2011 06:31:25PM 5 points [-]

I'd agree with this. I've been doing it for over a year now and have a whole notebook full of gushy, sentimental writing about my friends, family, nature, art etc. that I would never in a million years let anyone else see.

One thing I would add - Writing a gratitude journal once a week has been shown to be more effective than doing it daily (Sonja Lyubomirsky 2007)

I guess if you do it every day it becomes a chore and you don't do it with any real emotional investment so it becomes less effective.

Great article, thanks Luke

Comment author: beza1e1 20 July 2014 06:11:57PM 1 point [-]

One thing I would add - Writing a gratitude journal once a week has been shown to be more effective than doing it daily (Sonja Lyubomirsky 2007)

I found two publications by Lyubomirsky in 2007. Only one contained something remotely similar to your claim:

Tkach (2005) demonstrated that participants who were randomly assigned to vary the types of kind acts they would perform on a weekly basis showed higher levels of happiness and well- being 10 weeks later relative to those who did not vary their kind acts, and relative to comparison controls.

However, this is about "kind acts", not about a "happyness journal".

Can you clarify the daily-weekly claim?

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