Gratitude Reap the Benefits

 We have just about started the New Year and a lot has already happened around the world enough for us all to show gratitude at least for being here. So as you are read this post please start by being grateful in your heart again. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow” ~ Melodie Beattie .

 Showing Gratitude in These Times ?

Some of us may feel gloomy due  the current economic crisis, various  life events that may have affected us or maybe affecting us or others. But thankfully research has looked into gratitude and given us possible answers which should hopefully help and change the way we perceive our world. Some researchers found that the virtues of gratitude include good health and others have indicated that it makes us happier and can increase our problem solving ability.  So if this is the case what is the way forward and how can we integrate this awesome virtue into our daily life?

Practise Gratitude

Like most things in life showing gratitude may fall under one of the many life  skills that needs to be learnt, practised and embedded into our daily life to reap the benefits. After all I belief we will all like to get the best out of life. So you  can  start today by keeping a journal in which you use to write down even the simplest or tiniest things that you may have been overlooking or could have overlooked. If you are not the writing type, start with a mental journal where you are able to express gratitude within yourself.

 Gratitude journal

Try and write in your journal daily; shower it with all to be grateful for. There is no set time to write but some prefer to do so at the end of the day. What is important is to use the journal at least 3-4 times a week and have at least 2-5 grateful things written down each time you make an entry.   Base your journal on your daily positive encounters, don’t let your mind tell you otherwise. i.e you  have nothing to be grateful  for ;if  that is  case  simply start learning how to be grateful for just  being alive . “When there is life there is hope”.

Below are examples of  what can be entered   into your journal.

1, I thank God for the Day, this is one of my favourites.

2,I am grateful for my family.

3, I appreciate all the support given to me today by ……..

4, I really appreciate all you have done for me .

5, It was so nice seeing Mr A or Ms B today I thank God for bringing us together

6, I am grateful for my daily food and shelter..

7, I am so happy and thankful I was able to talk to an old friend today

8, I thank God for my health.

9, I am pleased with………

10, I am happy and grateful for Mr A or Mrs B family they just had a New born baby Boy

11, I am so grateful because our neighbourhood has just increased their security at night.

12,  I am grateful for all my pets because: They have  kept me busy.

Note: with gratitude you don’t just show it but also try and feel the emotion within you. In this manner you are sure to reap its benefits. If you are not use to showing gratitude it may take a little bit of practice.

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more”~ D.Steindl -Rast

 

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