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Maybe it's that first cup of coffee in the morning,
也許是你早晨喝的第一杯咖啡
the way it warms you and wakes you up, or taking your dog for a walk, or giving a little child a piggyback ride.
讓你感到溫暖，睡意全無，或者是帶你的狗出去散步，或者是跟孩子玩騎背背
It is a matter of practice of doing it over and over again til it becomes second nature."
培養(yǎng)感激需要經(jīng)過一次又一次的練習(xí)，直到變成第二天性
Til it becomes a habit. Til we take a stake of gratitude and turn it into a gratitude trait.
直到變成習(xí)慣，直到我們把一次的感激，變成我們性格的一部分
And it is possible to do it.
這是有可能做到的
One of the ways to do it is to identify everyday just one or two things to do mindfully, to focus on them,
其中一個(gè)方法就是每天都找出一兩次件，有意地專注于這些事上
whether it's the first cup of coffee in the dinning hall, whether it's the walk to class,
不管是在餐廳喝的第一杯咖啡，還是走向教室的那段路程
whether it's 10 minutes in the afternoon when you just listen to the music in your room, by yourself with your eyes closed and focused, appreciating your favorite piece.
還是你獨(dú)自在房間里閉著睛神集中精神聽十分鐘音樂，欣賞你最喜歡的歌曲
Taking our time to not just become wine connoisseurs but also life connoisseurs.
不僅花時(shí)間去變成紅酒鑒賞家，還要成為生活的鑒賞家
This course is in many ways about life appreciation.
這門課很大程度上就是要教我們感激生活
He continues: "Gratefulness is the measure of our aliveness.
他繼續(xù)寫道，"感激之心能量度我們活得多充實(shí)
Are we not dead to whatever we take for granted?
對(duì)習(xí)以為常的東西，難道我們不是死了一樣沒感覺嗎?"
Surely to be numb is to be dead.” Think about this.
"麻木就如同死亡"，大家想想
So Irvin Yalom, Stanford psychiatrist did a lot of research on terminally ill patients.
斯坦福精神學(xué)家Irvin Yalom做過很多研究，研究患不治之癥的病人
He went to people who had 3 months, 6 months, up to a year to live, and researched this population. And what he found time and again is that these people,
他找來那些只剩三個(gè)月，六個(gè)月，最多一年的人，研究這一類人，他同樣也發(fā)現(xiàn)這些人
time and again were something to the effect of "for the first time in my life, I feel that I am alive."
也有這樣的感受，"我這輩子第一次覺得自己活著"
