Gratitude

Hi @Bexi, I think this is a wonderful idea and have heard of it before. A friend of mine actually shared an article with me about this a while back and it does work. The video I have seen before but watched it again, great isn't it? In today's busy world it's so very easy to get caught up in the day to day and hectic pace (depending on your lifestyle of course, but more often than not life is very busy for most folks) and it really does help, just taking a little while to remember the good things in your life and I know there will be at least one for everyone if we stop and think, I'm grateful for so many things, most recent being 7 Cups and the people here Expressing your gratitude or even just taking a minute to think of the nice things; the love around you from family, friends, your pets ... just anything or anybody in your life that has helped make it just a bit better and letting any people know how grateful you are to them is even better as you can see by the reactions in the video. You start to feel real gratitude and appreciation and for myself at any rate, this changes my mood for the better and makes it easier to be gentle and kind with others (I sometimes have to remember more to be gentle and kind with myself too more, but working on that). Definitely a very good idea and worth looking into more and practising. I hope I made sense, lol. Thank you very much for sharing

~ Shona ~

Interesting thoughts in this thread. Bump!

I absolutely agree. Gratitude is being thankful for having grace in your life, for all that is good, and dear to life.

I couldn't agree more. But how do you teach an adult to express gratitude? I try to be very patient and give more to this person, thinking that he will learn, appreciate and do the same. But that only makes him potentially give all my generosity for granted. He express more gratitude when I put distance between both. But to me it's not the way to go. I also don't like lecturing or yelling saying "you should be grateful for this and that". I want it to flow organically. But how? Is it matter of time? Some people never change? Perhaps he express his gratitude through different gestures that I don't see? I understand this is a little bit off topic.

Completely agree and thanks for the links! it's one of those chain reaction things where expressing our thanks and helping someone else will make ourselves feel better after a difficult time. very true!

gratitude is very helpful for happiness because happiness=outcome-expectations. gratitude is good at lowering expectations

Good Read, Thanks! :)

Well Said.

You are absolutely right! I have lived this. Gratitude is one of my main tools to pull myself out of what seemed like a very deep dark hole. While browsing the internet someone had posted "grateful thoughts and depressed thoughts cannot exist at the same time". They were right.

I totally agree! My grandma told me "it's not those who are happy that are grateful. it's those who are grateful who are happy" :)