Gratitude is a lifejacket on a sinking ship. Gratitude is a door held by a stranger when you’re carrying lots of stuff. It’s a smile from your spouse after you’ve had one of those days at work. It’s a blanket when you’re cold. Soup when you’re sick. A call when you’re lonely.
Gratitude provides for us even when we think we have nothing or no one. Because we do have many things and people in our lives. Gratitude just lifts the opaque veil from our eyes so we can see that more clearly.
“People who are grateful about events and experiences from the past, who celebrate the triumphs instead of focusing on the losses or disappointments, tend to be more satisfied in the present,” write Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons in their book Living Life as a Thank You: My Journal.
In it, they feature practical exercises and inspiring stories and quotes to cultivate gratitude. Here are three exercises to try.
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years ago a caller to dennis prager suggested saying a prayer everytime you hear a siren, pray for the responders, the people they are responding to, and be thankful it isn’t you. one of many gratitude things i do every day. i thank God a lot each day and journal in the morning and list five things, big OR little, i am grateful for each day.
ABOUT THE GRATITUDE
Once I was convinced that one should be grateful to the people who have helped you in your life. Nowadays, basing upon my experience, I think one should express gratitude to his opponents and enemies as well. What I have learned from people with whom I have argued I could not learn from my teachers and friends. Indeed, my opponents strengthened me, for they taught me how to survive, how to win the battles which life itself brings us.
Hence I express gratitude to the existence; to the life which is the best teacher made of friendly and unfriendly persons. All of them are good teachers.
Ettore Grillo author of The Vibrations of Words
http://www.amazon.com/author/ettoregrillo