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Here is a piece of training I shared with a student this week.
I hope you find it helpful.
Practicing Gratitude
It is often much more comfortable for many people to remember the bad experiences in their lives rather than the good. When unfortunate things happen to us, we tend to spend a significant amount of time and energy thinking about what went wrong.
By taking the time to increase our experience and depth of gratitude, we can start to balance out these negative thoughts. When we focus on the right thoughts, memories, and feelings from our lives, we can begin to gain numerous positive benefits and opportunities that further enrich our lives.
Genuinely feeling grateful in your heart and choosing to articulate it through your words and your actions, you will be able to grow beyond your self-imposed limits and achieve a life of greatness and happiness.
Practicing gratitude can have numerous positive physical and psychological benefits, so why do so many of us fail to practice gratitude in our daily lives? The most straightforward answer is that we are taught to be ambitious and strive to be better.
However, when you practice an attitude of gratitude, you can open your life to more possibilities and achieve the greatness that you seek. Learn how to practice gratitude for a life of excellence and Happiness.
Understand Gratitude is a Choice
In the same way that you can choose to be optimistic or pessimistic, you can also choose whether or not you will be consciously grateful for your life. When you practice gratitude, you are actively choosing to have a more positive perspective on life.
When you learn to focus on the things you have to be grateful for, you can gain greater happiness and experience a better quality of life. All it takes is you actively changing your outlook.
Choosing to be grateful is easier said than done. Not only will it require you to have a desire to be more thankful in your life, but you will also have to practice it regularly. Just like with any other skill, developing a habit of gratitude takes time and practice.
As you practice gratitude more and more, you will find it easier to see what you are thankful for in your life. You will start to feel more positive and happier overall. When times get tough, you’ll be able to look at what you should be grateful for, which will affect your attitude and outlook.
You can actively begin to practice gratitude by participating in the following consciousness exercise.
Find a quiet place for ten minutes. Try to think of ten things that you are grateful for at that moment. They don’t have to be big, monumental things. They could be small things that happened to you during the day or even essential people in your life. Write down the ten items on a piece of paper or notebook. Take the time to look at each one and ask yourself why you are grateful for it.
Over the next 24 hours, try to stay conscious of your gratitude. Take note of the positive things that happen to you and what you are grateful for in your daily life. To help you begin to practice gratitude, you can start keeping a gratitude journal.
When it comes to incorporating gratitude into your daily life, it can help to write down what you are grateful for in your life and refer back to it when you are stuck in a particularly tricky situation.
To start a gratitude journal, pick up a journal or notepad that you can use to write in every day. There are also many smartphone applications that are designed for this exact purpose. On the first page of the journal, write down three things you would like to achieve by practicing gratitude. Then, for the next four weeks or longer, start writing down three things that you are grateful for each day.
While it’s alright to repeat things from day to day, you’ll get more out of the exercise when you can come up with specific things that you notice each day. As you write these things down, be sure to include why you are grateful for them.
Try to make a mental note of each thing you are grateful for in the day to help you complete the exercise before going to bed. Try to be conscious of the positive things you experience and the kinds of actions you notice throughout the week. Once a week, look back over your entries and take in the positive energy that you’ll get by revisiting all the things that you are grateful for in your life.
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