What is so great about being grateful?
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During this short video I let you know why feeling grateful and thankful can be a powerful way to create happiness in your life. Not only does it promote health and a positive attitude, but it begins to bring a lot more things to be grateful and thankful for into your life.
How to be grateful, about what, and when.
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I recorded this video in a grave yard, just to remind us that is nothing else, we can be grateful to be alive! Here I talk about what grateful feels like, that we need to find things to be grateful and thankful for, then focus on those feelings to increase them. We look at what you can be grateful for, which could be anything from the trillions of beautiful, amazing, perfect things in nature, to the simple little things in life that go right, like getting a sort after car park, right through to being grateful for negative emotions and feelings just for the indication and reminder that we live. Then we went through a series of exercises you can do for one to two weeks, practicing gratitude, and see how different you feel after focusing on the good. Here they are:
Exercise: Practice these for 1-2 weeks (Continue as long as you like – forever is recommended!)
1. Do the Happiness Survey before you begin, so you can measure your success and progress
2. Write in a gratitude diary every night 3 things that you are grateful and thankful for during your day
3. Appreciate someone every day and let them know
4. Do something nice for someone every day
5. Tell people about the things you are grateful for – in every conversation try to throw in something that you are glad about
6. Do the Happiness Survey again to see if gratefulness and thankfulness really DO make you happier (then decide to keep doing it!)
Meditation:{Haven’t started meditation yet? Click here for my meditation post}
Spend lots of time in the heart chakra (green) swelling up your heart with thankfulness and gratefulness, and pour out appreciation and love in gratitude to the wonderful people in your life.
Comments:
I would really love to hear about how gratefulness is making you happier. Also, if there has been an effect on your friends because of your positive words. How did someone react to your act of appreciation or thoughtfulness? Was it easy to find things to be grateful for? Did it get easier to find things to be grateful for? Did you see a change in your Happiness level through the Happiness Survey?
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