2024 - Week 38 - Gratitude Practice

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2024 - Week 38 - Gratitude Practice

I feel so grateful to be alive at this particular time. In my lifetime I have been able to experience not having cell phones or faxes, as well as not having GPS systems. I'm extremely grateful that these are now a part of our daily lives. However, I do feel that living in a time before all of those modern conveniences were available allows me to step away easier than people who may not have had the experience of living without these tools.

I'm also grateful that science continues to confirm things like the importance of gratitude in our daily lives. Here are a few benefits of having a regular gratitude practice:

1. Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions and we tend to use less negative language.

2. Gratitude helps even if you don’t share it, try writing a letter to someone and you don’t even need to share it, you will benefit just from writing your thoughts down.

3. Gratitude takes time so write down what are grateful for regularly, it’ll help.

4. Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain and decision making, so that’s reason enough to try practicing gratitude.

Walking in the mornings before it gets hot has been a practice of mine for decades.

I hope you enjoy this track called Four Minute Gratitude Walk. Note: I'm out walking so you'll hear the sounds of cars and all of life around.

What are you grateful for these days? Leave a comment, observation or reflection where you're listening to this podcast.

If you’d like to share your thoughts with me - [e-mail] is the best way to reach me. And if social media is better for you, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, are best.

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The card I pulled for us today from my Relax, Listen and Trust Your Inner Guidance Card Deck
#5 TRUST - I speak KIND and LOVING words to MYSELF

How we speak to ourselves is essential to a well lived life. I am enough and worthy of all the good I can stand is one of my affirmations and a reminder to be good, kind and sweet to myself.

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