A Radical Experiment: 24 Hours of No ComplainingThose of us who celebrate Thanksgiving all have our own special traditions. One of the most common traditions many of us will share this Thursday is taking turns around the table saying what we 're grateful for.
It 's so important to take some time to reflect and express gratitude for the life you live. As you know, this month we 've been discussing gratitude. We talked about the benefits of gratitude, and even shared a story about expressing gratitude during tragedy.
Today I would like to share with you a short curated list of 10 ways to cultivate gratitude. My hope is that you 'll find one or two things you 'll add to your life, to increase your expression of gratitude daily.
1. Keep a Gratitude Journal
A gratitude journal is the most popular way to practice gratitude.
What you 'll need: A
In other words, it caused the callers to stop, and even if only for a brief moment, count their blessings.
Counting your blessings is very similar to thinking about thanking people. The only difference is now you 're thinking about all the blessings you have or have been given in your life.
What you 'll need: Just the time and space to think. Maybe a notebook and a pen if you want to make a list of blessings.
How it works: Carve out some alone time, either on a walk or sitting quietly somewhere, and start to list our all the blessings you have. For each item you think about, sit with it for a while and really consider how blessed you are to have the things that you have.
You can list out things like: A roof over your head, loving parents, or one true friend. You can also consider broader blessings that perhaps you may not consider at first. Things like: freedom of religion, the ability to stand and walk, or the fact that you 're still alive when someone else your age didn 't make
Gratitude is a gift that the earth urgently needs. Consistent gratitude is a form of recognition of the gift and the giver. Daily gratitude can help eliminate the need for more and practicing more of only what we need. Gratitude leads to a society of contentment rather than one that's always in need of more. We human individuals have conventions for appreciation; we apply them formally to each other. We say thank you. “We understand that receiving a gift
One example would be something as simple as watch t.v and eating dinner, this is a habit we have all done before. In this situation the t.v turns on and you see a video of starving children on your t.v screen, you take a moment of silent. After you pity the children then comes the prayer to God, thanking God that you aren’t in that situation. This is the part when your self-gratitude comes out, instead of trying to go out and help the child or even pray for the child’s well-being, where stuck praying for ourselves. We try to express gratitude by thanking God for the roof over our heads and the foods he’s provided for us today, after all that’s done we get a good feeling in our hearts, and go back to eating dinner and talking about our day while the child is still starving. This is what Barbara was trying to talk about in her article, about how everything’s becoming a “you and you” relationship We as a social aren’t really trying that hard to help other because when we see a bad situation instead of going after it and trying to make it better we tend to focus on the our lives and selfishly bring it back to us and how grateful we are that it wasn’t us, and that isn’t helping anyone get
looking forward to, it will change my outlook on the day. According to studies “gratitude can
During thanksgiving I really like to reflect on everything I have and it’s just a great way to remind myself to be more generous and to hold what and who I love dearly and show them that I care about them. Especially during this time of year when everything can be very stressful with the end of the semester and some mid terms, it gives me a chance to think on the less fortunate who don’t even get an education and would love the chance to get what I have. I’m so thankful for my availability to music and the abundance of caring people in my life with so many opportunities for me right at this moment. I realize that a lot of people take everything they have for granted and honestly everyone does this from time to time, I really like to just bluntly tell people that I care about them and that I’m thankful for them to be in my life at this point, even if it's just to remind myself to be more grateful towards them. Just think about what you have and be grateful for the good
Its practice has been seen to be efficacious in healing and improving the quality of life of many people. Whether in terms of enhancing mental health or preventing illness, gratitude is one of life’s vitalizing ingredients. Clinical trials indicate that the practice of gratitude can have dramatic and lasting positive effects on a person’s life. It can lower blood pressure, improve immune function, promote happiness and well being, and spur acts of helpfulness, generosity and cooperation (Emmons & Stern, 2013). Emmons and Stern (2013) from their experiments, assert that gratitude has one of the strongest links to mental health and life satisfaction in any personality trait, more so than even optimism hope or compassion. They maintain that people who experience gratitude can cope more effectively with everyday stress, show increased resilience in the face of trauma-induced stress, recover more quickly from illness, and enjoy more robust physical health.
When I recognize the state of gratitude in which my heart is enveloped, I immediately embrace the Grace of God! I would never know true gratitude if it were not for God’s grace.
Read the Bible. God left us an over-flowing fountain of good advice in His book. Our soul needs to be fed with His Word on a daily basis. We can make time aside, even for a few minutes, to open our Bibles and read. It’s filled with so many stories on how to deal with what we may be going through. God has so much to say to us and our souls will never be fed with it until we read it.
When people have gratitude it makes ths country a better place. The people of this country could be caring, or helpful, and our country suffers from the selfish people in it. Gratitude makes a person an American, because they show respect to each and every person they meet and will meet in the future. They have the caring ways to help their friends, and family out at anytime. Gratitude is a trait that should be in any American citizen, because it shows the people of this country that it could be a better place if people would start treating others with kindness. The truth is, as I was growing up, I didn’t see much kindness in the world. People were treating others lousy, worthless, and, horrid. If more people had gratitude ther would be less murders, more love, and so much more faith in the world. Today we see people die, and are used to it. We hear about attacks and absolutely do nothing for the people that need it. Obviously, we need to find more of this stuff called
So much goes on, on a day to day basis and it might be hard to be consistently thankful. There are some days when it takes more conscious effort than others to not allow the bad to outweigh the good, but it can be done! Daily, I’m grateful for the blessings that the creator has bestowed upon me. Believe in purpose and understand that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes it is best to not think, because overthinking can certainly lead to stress. You can think yourself into a headache, by sitting around and dwelling on the past. Where could that take you? Think about it. If it should have happened, it would have happened! We can’t change the past and it’s so important to get over it and move on with your life. Move up and away from the past, enjoy the now and look forward to tomorrow. Doing these things will help you live a life that is stress free!
Gratitude – you need to be grateful for good deeds done to you, and if possible pass those good deeds on to others.
Practicing mindfulness is something that most people probably have on their daily to-do list, but never getting around to it because they either don’t believe it’ll work or feel too busy with their lives to stop for literally just a minute to breathe. When going into this activity, my to-do is exactly what was in mind. It’s the list that is never completed. So, having this as an actual assignment was exactly what I needed to get a jumpstart on my mindfulness techniques in my daily life.
your life, acknowledging all that He has done for you, believing in Him and His word to
Certainly not. We cannot be grateful for violence, war, oppression, or exploitation. On the personal level, we cannot be grateful for the loss of a friend, for unfaithfulness, for bereavement. But I didn't say we can be grateful for everything. I meant that we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity. We can be grateful for having shelter, education, and food. We can also be grateful for being alive. There are so many more opportunities to be grateful we just don't notice. Gratitude can change our world in immensely important ways. If you're grateful, you're not fearful, and if you're not fearful, you're not violent. If you're grateful, you act out of a sense of enough or satisfy and not of a sense of scarcity. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people, and you are respectful to everybody, and that changes this power pyramid under which we live.(Steindl-Rast, TED.). If we're all grateful, the world will be a living heaven. All world where everyone is happy full with gratitude. There will be no violence, no war, and no depression. A world that's peaceful and full of happiness to show for our next
Another thing that is extremely important in my life is family. At my age not a lot of people think about having one but its something that I know I want. I mean with all the plans I have for my future they wouldn’t be as great if I didn’t have people to share it with or give to when I passed away. Also having little kids and doing father activities with them is something I really look forward too.
I was upset because I realized that I was going to regain the weight that I had worked so hard to lose. Upon meeting my doctor, she was concerned about my mental health and asked a series of questions to assess my mental health. She realized that I was not going to harm myself and that I was genuinely grateful for her time, patience. According to the Gratitude and Chronic Illness, having gratitude can have a positive impact on a patient’s ability to improve his or her health. “A growing body of literature in recent years has demonstrated the relation of gratitude to a number of different forms of well-being.”(Sirois, F. M., & Wood, A. M. 2017 p. 19). While I did not have any prior knowledge to any case studies related to gratitude, I did realize that having a positive attitude during my pregnancy allowed me to reduce my stress and anxiety