Than You I am Deeply Grateful...

Simply put, gratitude is the most powerful emotion we can cultivate.

Gratitude, thankfulness, or gratefulness, from the Latin word gratus "pleasing, thankful", is a feeling of appreciation felt by and/or similar positive response shown by the recipient of kindness, gifts, help, favors, or other types of generosity, to the giver of said gifts.

Yes, the past two years have not been easy for many of us, and still, I deeply appreciate all I have and I’m incredibly grateful for it. Thankful for my family, friends, life, work, and all of you. Additionally, I’m also grateful for the many challenges we had to overcome to arrive at where we are today in our respective lives. With more challenges to come, for sure. And that’s good, too. I’m also grateful for the things I don’t have which helps me to enjoy even more so the people and things that fortunately are in my life.

Gratitude starts with noticing the good things in one’s life. For me, just being around my family and good friends makes me feel thankful and glad. I love our joint breakfasts or reading a book together on our family sofa. For others, it might be an outdoor walk to appreciate Mother Earth’s beauty while deeply breathing in and out, taking a hot shower on a cold winter day, or volunteering and helping people in need. As a rule of thumb, it’s very helpful to focus on what we have, and not on what we miss to move more into a grateful frame of mind. Perceiving difficult situations as a chance to grow and evolve also helps.

As gratitude is contagious and spreading it will make it even more impactful, let’s pass it on to others to have it snowball through as many people’s lives as possible!

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance"-Eckhart Tolle

THANK YOU, my dear friends. I appreciate you a lot and I’m deeply grateful to you!

I wish you, your families, and your loved ones an enjoyable and peaceful holiday.

Express Gratitude

Before you can complain about school, remember that some people can’t even get an education.

Before you can complain about getting fat, remember that some people don’t even have any food.

Before you can complain about your job, remember that some people don’t even have any money.

Before you can complain about cleaning the house, remember that some people don’t even have any shelter.

Before you can complain about washing the dishes, remember that some people don’t even have any water.

Before you complain about all these things on social media while using your smartphone, without any consideration of how blessed you are, just be thankful for a minute.

Being thankful is one of the simplest, yet most powerful, habits you can cultivate. By counting our blessings daily, you can begin to condition your mind to look for the good in everything around you. Soon enough you’ll unconsciously begin to see the bright side of things and feel better about life.

You can’t feel bad while you’re thankful. As simple as showing gratitude sounds, most people struggle with it. It’s much easier to focus on burdens than on gifts; to devote your attention to things you don’t have, rather than the things you do have.

I was once studying some of the most successful individuals on this planet, and one phrase really stuck with me: "Greatness starts with being grateful”.

Furthermore, by expressing gratitude, we not only transform our vibrational state to become more magnetic to the good things, but we also become able to put things into perspective.

“The more you count your blessings, the more blessings you’ll have to count”

Write a Gratitude Journal

Allocate 15 minutes per day, at least three times per week for at least two weeks.

How to Do It

There’s no wrong way to keep a gratitude journal, but here are some general instructions as you get started.

Write down up to five things for which you feel grateful. The physical record is important—don’t just do this exercise in your head. The things you list can be relatively small in importance (“The tasty sandwich I had for lunch today.”) or relatively large (“My sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy.”). The goal of the exercise is to remember a good event, experience, person, or thing in your life—then enjoy the good emotions that come with it.

As you write, here are nine important tips:

1.     Be as specific as possible—specificity is key to fostering gratitude. “I’m grateful that my co-workers brought me soup when I was sick on Tuesday” will be more effective than “I’m grateful for my co-workers.”

2.    Go for depth over breadth. Elaborating in detail about a particular person or thing for which you’re grateful carries more benefits than a superficial list of many things.

3.    Get personal. Focusing on people to whom you are grateful has more of an impact than focusing on things for which you are grateful.

4.    Try subtraction, not just addition. Consider what your life would be like without certain people or things, rather than just tallying up all the good stuff. Be grateful for the negative outcomes you avoided, escaped, prevented, or turned into something positive—try not to take that good fortune for granted.

5.    See good things as “gifts.” Thinking of the good things in your life as gifts guards against taking them for granted. Try to relish and savor the gifts you’ve received.

6.    Savor surprises. Try to record events that were unexpected or surprising, as these tend to elicit stronger levels of gratitude.

7.    Revise if you repeat. Writing about some of the same people and things is OK, but zero in on a different aspect in detail.

Write regularly. Whether you write daily or every other day, commit to a regular time to journal, then honor that commitment.

Why You Should Try It

It’s easy to take the good things and people in our lives for granted, but research suggests that consciously giving thanks for them can have profound effects on our well-being and relationships. This exercise helps you develop a greater appreciation for the good in your life. In fact, people who routinely express gratitude enjoy better health and greater happiness.

Why It Works

While it’s important to analyze and learn from bad events, sometimes we can think too much about what goes wrong and not enough about what goes right in our lives. A gratitude journal forces us to pay attention to the good things in life we might otherwise take for granted. In that way, we start to become more attuned to the everyday sources of pleasure around us—and the emotional tone of our life can shift in profound ways. What’s more, actually writing about these events is key: Research suggests translating thoughts into concrete language makes us more aware of them, deepening their emotional impact.

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