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You've heard the benefits of a gratitude practice. This article takes a new approach, viewing gratitude as a competing response for negative mental habits like rumination and worry and warning about the downsides of gratitude: when it leads to guilt.

This powerful metaphor illustrates the difference between awareness, focused attention, mindfulness, and rumination.

This is shaping up to be a tense and long election season. These tips will help you stay cool, calm, and collected.

Understand why you have a lot of self-criticism and why it isn't helpful. Learn a helpful strategy for reducing critical self-talk.

Thinking is a habit shaped by our experiences. Like bad posture, thinking habits can be changed with awareness and repeated correction.