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Gratitude And Your Happiness – 5 Key Benefits of Gratitude
How To Find Gratitude In the Face Of Your Current Circumstance
Michelle Wojnowski
Do you struggle with how to find a sense of gratitude in your life in the face of your current circumstances? This is a common challenge, particularly when your current circumstances reflect so much of what you don’t want in your life. Yet it’s vitally important to tap into the sense of appreciation and gratitude for what you do have because that’s the catalyst to the shift in your vibration that will enable you to begin to attract more of what you want.So how do you do that?
Accept Your Current Circumstances
Being grateful is to accept the current situation you are in. If you are having trouble with acceptance start there. Face your current situation because it is blocking you from the uplifting feeling of accomplishment.
Gratitude is feeling so good that you accomplished something regardless of what your current situation was. Whether it is a relationship issue or something as simple as completing a task around your home. Set a goal each week to accomplish the resistant blocks that have been holding you back.
What will happen is a relief, called gratitude. You actually feel more raised compared to the situation you were in and now you have possibilities of having a greater outcome. I make thousands of dollars each time I have a strong feeling of gratitude. The stronger and longer the feeling of gratitude, the better the results.
Genuine Gratitude
However, it has to be genuine. You can’t be pretending to be grateful. You actually have to release the resistance, the block that is holding you from this emotion. Fear of failure often holds people from having success because they didn’t know that they have to face it.
Luckily, each situation you are in each day, you can accomplish. Remember in grade school when you had a big test or some obstacle that seemed incredibly rough. Well, if you today were put back into that situation in the past with what you know now, you could easily face the situation and have a wonderful outcome. Because you faced that fear and recognize it you know what to do and do it without the fear or struggle. It comes naturally for you now. Personal development is learning and growing from each situation you are in.
Each week assess your blocks and face them gently and with the expectation that a positive outcome will appear. Gratitude or relief will flood in every time you accomplish or face the situation. So look forward to the struggle, for once you face it, you won’t have to struggle with it anymore! Have a great week, I know you can do it!
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It’s not always easy to find the goodness in life, especially when money is tight and you’re faced with worries about your job or family. These worries can often cloud your whole mind, bring your mood down, and affect your overall quality of life.
If you feel like you’re being followed by the ominous black cloud of bad luck, then it’s time to find something to be grateful for in your life.
Remind tourself about what’s going right
If you’re plagued by negative thoughts, find a quiet place, grab a pen and paper and make a list of answers to this question: What do I have to be grateful for in my life?
Start your list with the most obvious things, your health and family. Do you have a car? A home? Clothes on your back? Food on the table?
- You don’t have to have the fanciest or the most expensive items for you to be grateful. Even if you buy your clothes at Goodwill, at least you’re clothed and warm. A used car in good condition will get you to work just as easily as a brand new car.
- Don’t forget to give thanks for the small things in life, such as finding the car keys in time to get to work or getting a restfull night sleep before an important day.
You can also try to sit quietly in a room and meditate on your life and things you want to improve on. Appreciating what you already have in life will free you to make the changes you desire.
Being grateful in spite of setbacks
There’s no denying that you will suffer setbacks in life. It’s a fact of life! While it may be difficult to be grateful during these times, it’s important to remember that good can come from difficult situations.
For example, if you’ve recently lost your job, be grateful for the skills you have. With your skills, experience, and the knowledge you possess, you may end up finding a more fulfilling job that gives you more money or more responsibility while being closer to home.
As strange as it may sound in a moment of despair, try to be grateful during difficult times because, as one door closes, another opens the way to new opportunities. After all, you can’t find bright new possibilities in your life if you don’t experience a setback at one point or another.
Be thankful for life’s setbacks
Setbacks are there to challenge you to be better, stronger, faster, and wiser. The true test of your attitude is to be thankful for the obstacle ahead of you (even if you don’t understand why it exists in the first place), then push forward, stronger than ever.
Why should you be thankful? Because with each challenge you overcome, you gain the wisdom and courage to succeed the next time around. And if it weren’t for each and every challenge in your life, you’d never learn and grow!
Being grateful everyday will help you lift that overbearing black cloud that can be so stifling. You’ll begin realize that life is good and you can make it through anything. After all, good things come to those who wait!
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When was the last time you said thank you for being alive? Sounds silly, doesn’t it? Well, if you barely have time to appreciate what you have, how can you ever desire anything more?
We all have something to be thankful for, even those who live a modest lifestyle by choice or by circumstance.
Focusing on material possessions, rather than on the very fact that we’re living and breathing, tend to make us forgetful of the greater gifts, such as our families and our health.
Life is a miracle and can be taken away in a moment’s notice. Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, there are many ways you can show your appreciation for your life.
5 ways to express your gratitude
Sometimes showing your gratitude can be as simple as saying “thanks,” but other times you can show gratitude by helping others, or “paying it forward.” After all, you’ll never know how a simple, kind gesture will affect someone’s day.
Here are some ideas to help you appreciate life while also helping others:
- Reach out to your extended family and friends. Send them cards just to say “Hi,” call or email them, or even throw a party to reconnect and show these people they’re important to you.
- Reflect about your childhood and ancestors. Write a poem, essay, or short story about your life. What sacrifices did your parents make for you? What struggles did the family endure? How is your life better or easier than that of your great-grandparents? How did these events make you the person you are today?
- Meditate, pray, or go to your place of worship. Find a quiet place to think about all that’s good – your health, family, or home – and simply say “thank you” to your Creator.
- Reconnect with your spouse and children. Actions speak louder than words so turn off that television and spend some quality time with your family just to have some fun! Whether it’s a surprise getaway or a family game night, renewing your relationships with your family will strengthen your bond and bring you closer together.
- Keep a gratitude journal. Write down all the things you’re grateful for in your life and reflect on all that is good. Even the simplest things – such as finding a parking space at the mall or locating your missing keys – are times to be grateful!
When you need a wake up call
Sometimes it’s all too easy to engage in these activities and give thanks for a good life, yet over time, we somehow fall back into our old habits. In these times, we need a jolt to remind ourselves of all that is good.
Spend a few hours a week volunteering at a hospital, nursing home, or soup kitchen. Take a good look at the people you’re helping, listen to their stories, and be grateful that you’re fortunate enough to help those in need.
Giving IS receiving. When you give of yourself, whether with a smile or another kind gesture, you receive the warm satisfaction of helping to make a difference in the world … one person at a time.
Your uplifting attitude will be contagious and you just might be the recipient of a random act of kindness! By learning to express your gratitude consistently throughout your day, your level of happiness will grow as a natural outcome.
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Gratitude is often a difficult concept to understand and put into practice. Remember how your parents used to tell you not to waste food because there were starving kids in the world? That was an elementary attempt at teaching gratitude because the goal was to make you think about how fortunate you were to have food on your plate.
Understanding Gratitude
Once children get older and start to understand the concept of gratitude, they’re usually bombarded with commercials and marketing ploys for all the latest, coolest gadgets. The problem is that all this hype and marketing undermines parents’ desire to teach their children to be happy with what they already have. And jealousy is especially difficult to battle when children have friends who get whatever they desire.
But if love and gratitude is only expressed through worldly things, there is no depth or deeper meaning since things break down, get old, and stop working at some point.
What Is Gratitude?
If you look in the dictionary you’ll find the definition of gratitude is a feeling of thankfulness; basically, being happy with what you have in life. Sit and think about all that you have – your home, family, health, food, car, and faith – and then consider those people who don’t have any of those things. It’s very humbling to realize that there are so many joys we take for granted in our life! Every Thanksgiving families sit around the dinner table and share what they’re thankful for but this practice shouldn’t be reserved for just one time a year. Giving regular thanks will help everyone in your family appreciate each other and all they have.
- Share your gratitude with your family every night during a family dinner. Say thanks to the cook, thanks to the cleaner, and thanks for everyone gathered around the table.
- Encourage older kids to really think about the little things that happened during the day to find their gratitude.
- Enjoy the quiet time together and use the sharing opportunity to open discussions about ways your family can work together as a loving team.
Showing Gratitude Without Envy
Both children and adults are guilty of being envious of other people’s possessions or success at one time or another. It’s human nature, especially since we see what others have and desire it for ourselves.
If you’re ready to eliminate that jealousy and show genuine gratitude, here are a few reminders for you:
- Gratitude can be expressed by doing big and small things. You don’t have to make a huge monetary contribution to express your appreciation. Simple things, such as writing a thank you note, are just as effective in showing your gratitude for life.
- Gratitude must be practiced regularly, even during difficult times. By doing something small but meaningful each day to show your gratitude, you’re forming an important habit which will last for your lifetime.
- Gratitude is not all about money. Making charitable contributions is wonderful but if you don’t have the money to do that, volunteer your time at a soup kitchen, animal shelter, or other charity that touches your heart. Your time is just as valuable as money!
Teaching Kids a Life Lesson
Young children generally have a difficult time thinking of the big world around them. Their worlds are often centered on themselves, their family, school, and activities. They barely have a concept of another town or state, never mind starving kids in a foreign country.
By engaging in activities as a family, you can show your children the struggles other people face and how their own problems or desires fit into the big picture. Seeing the children who don’t normally get Christmas gifts will help them appreciate their own possessions more. Listening to the stories of the people at the soup kitchen on Thanksgiving Day will help them learn compassion for others.
It may not be an instantaneous change, but eventually your kids will be more concerned about people, instead of things. Things can be replaced, but people are priceless. After all, without the sacrifices of our parents and the gift of positive relationships, there would be no one to share our things with!
Keep Dreaming Big
Gratitude plays an important role in your own personal growth journey but expressing your gratitude doesn’t mean you have to give up on your dreams. If you want to reach a certain career level, go for it.
Want a bigger house, save up. If your child wants the newest electronic toy, let him start learning the value of money. In doing so, you will begin to appreciate your life journey a whole lot more.
Gratitude helps you see the true joys in everything – big or small. Just remember that every gift in your life should be a pleasant surprise rather than a desperate or jealous desire.
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There is an undeniable power to the use of affirmations on a daily basis. Starting your day off with some affirmations, especially affirmations of gratitude, is a very effective technique for bringing more peace and happiness into your life.
Affirmations are a great way to remind yourself of all the wonderful things you have in your life. When you repeat aloud these affirmations of gratitude, you energize yourself and gain the courage to face the day and all of the frictions and adventures it may bring.
Affirming your gratefulness helps you recognize that you can have what you most want and need in order to reap the fulfilling life you deserve. Joy, money, love, and happiness are yours. You deserve it!
Affirmations are easy to do and they don’t take much time at all. In just a few minutes you can turbo charge your day better than a rocket-fueled cup of coffee ever could. By reflecting on your prosperity and abundance you’ll soar above your current highest high!
Gratitude Affirmations and Stress
Once you’ve worked affirmations into your morning (you can say them anytime again throughout the day or night, too) you’ll start to notice that your inner world is much less stressed.
When you have finally let it sink into your subconscious mind that you can have all that you need and desire, your stress will start to slip away. Your negative reactions are soothed and they slip away. You can now enjoy peace of mind and a sense of calm that you may never have known before.
12 Highly Effective Affirmations
- I feel an abundance of gratitude for everything I have and receive every day.
- My needs and desires are generously met. For this I am thankful.
- I am grateful for all the great health, love, and goodness that my life has revealed to me.
- I am continually amazed at how abundant my life is already!
- I am grateful for everything I experience in this lifetime. I overcome, I grow, and I prosper all the time.
- My abundant blessings, as well as my difficulties, all make me better, stronger, and more alive.
- I am so grateful for every person and every thing in my life.
- I appreciate everything I have and I show my sincerest gratitude to my loved ones.
- The universe pours joy into my life every day. It has my cup overflowing with wealth, health, and love.
- My life is singular, unique and wondrous. For this I am profoundly thankful.
- I clearly see the beauty of life that flourishes around me. I give gratitude for God’s endless treasures.
- I am grateful for my blessed ancestors living on through my blood.
Using the affirmations above along with your own will help you lead a less stressful and more fulfilling life.
Spending some time with positive affirmations, while appreciating all that you have and all that’s heading your way is one of the easiest “stress relief drugs” you’ll ever take. Yet, affirmations come with no ill side effects and they’re free.
Choose peace in your life by using the power of affirmations and gratitude.
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