Could Gratitude Possibly Heal Your Heart?
Living a Grateful life.
During the late fall and winter holiday seasons, feeling grateful fills the air. That’s not a bad thing, but gratitude is not restricted to seasons of joy and laughter, it’s a feeling and, more importantly, a daily practice,regardless of what may be happening inside, and all around you.
Leaders and healers have much to say about gratitude, like these two examples:
I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get. - Louise Hays
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. - Melody Beatti
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.;I prefer to call it Gratitude Day, because it’s one day of the year when most people in the U.S. feel and talk about their gratitude for something, even if it’s merely about the warmth of a baked potato.
Why not make every day a Gratitude Day. Look around you? What do you see? Do you have a chair to sit on? Do you have a roof over your head, food to eat?
Do you have at least one friend or family member you can rely on to be present for you every day, whether by phone, email, text, or thought - who will be available to you regardless of your mood or incapacity to speak because of a deep inner pain?
Are you able to see or feel the frost on your window pane?
Nature gifts us her riches, every day!
On a day of grave hardship, if your heart is broken, unable to find one thing to be grateful for, seek a moment in nature. Play with the frost on your window panes, watch the magic of snowflakes,each one a unique structure, dancing outside your window, or fallng on your face.
When you develop a daily practice of gratitude for just one thing, that’s all - just one thing - then at bedtime, or at another moment of the day - you express a heartfelt thank you to the universe for gifting you with this one thing, over time you’ll begin to immeasurably shift your daily attitude from a feeling of lack to one of abundace.
If you cannot think of one thing to be grateful for today, perhaps you could feel grateful that you are breathing, or that, on this day, you were an important part of the universe’s magic! Or, that the sun rose, even if you were not able to see it!
Thank you for reading Transmuting Adversity, I’m grateful for your presence in my life.
Blessings, and Gratitude for your presence in my life, Dory