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When you practice gratitude and can appreciate a simple situation, you are basically telling your higher power I am grateful for this problem/opportunity and I want to learn from it. Please help me to do so!
People underestimate gratitude all the time. They do not realize that simply practicing this type of mindset elevates their consciousness automatically. For one thing, you are more aware of problems/challenges, and then to take it a step further, you are actively seeking out the knowledge, the practical application for yourself.
Have you ever heard someone complain a lot about how rotten their luck is, and how badly things have turned out for them? This is the opposite of gratitude. They are basically telling their higher power: Thanks for nothing! I appreciate none of this, and I am not taking positive action to fix anything. I blame others.
Can you see how much power the person gives away when they choose to complain about their situation?
On the other hand, if they choose gratitude, then they can say: Thank you for the opportunity you sent me today. I did not like the situation but I learned something about myself. Even though I was uncomfortable with it, I worked through it and I gained some new insight. I will know better next time this situation comes up and I will be better prepared to deal with it. I am stronger now because of it. Thank you for the lesson and the growth.
It might sound a bit corny to celebrate your problems like this, but when you do so consistently and practice gratitude, you start to see how your problems become smaller and smaller. They still happen, but when they do, they are no longer earth shattering like they used to be, and now you are learning from them. Each new problem is a gift; an opportunity for growth. Every time you get upset or experience discomfort, you have an opportunity to learn about yourself or practice acceptance.
And thus you start to appreciate all of life, both the good and the bad.
Spiritualriver.com
People underestimate gratitude all the time. They do not realize that simply practicing this type of mindset elevates their consciousness automatically. For one thing, you are more aware of problems/challenges, and then to take it a step further, you are actively seeking out the knowledge, the practical application for yourself.
Have you ever heard someone complain a lot about how rotten their luck is, and how badly things have turned out for them? This is the opposite of gratitude. They are basically telling their higher power: Thanks for nothing! I appreciate none of this, and I am not taking positive action to fix anything. I blame others.
Can you see how much power the person gives away when they choose to complain about their situation?
On the other hand, if they choose gratitude, then they can say: Thank you for the opportunity you sent me today. I did not like the situation but I learned something about myself. Even though I was uncomfortable with it, I worked through it and I gained some new insight. I will know better next time this situation comes up and I will be better prepared to deal with it. I am stronger now because of it. Thank you for the lesson and the growth.
It might sound a bit corny to celebrate your problems like this, but when you do so consistently and practice gratitude, you start to see how your problems become smaller and smaller. They still happen, but when they do, they are no longer earth shattering like they used to be, and now you are learning from them. Each new problem is a gift; an opportunity for growth. Every time you get upset or experience discomfort, you have an opportunity to learn about yourself or practice acceptance.
And thus you start to appreciate all of life, both the good and the bad.
Spiritualriver.com
Billy
In the almost 20 years I have been in recovery and sober I have seen people pick up a drink that have prayed daily that have been happy / sad/ mad but I have not seen anyone pick up a drink that has been grateful for what they have been given a daily reprieve from this insidious disease. And I am one.
Someone pulled me out of that quicksand I was in "my alcoholism" I was sinking fast but I was given a second chance at a brand new life who wouldn't be grateful and like the first step I am hanging on with both hands.
My sponsor would say .Grab that First Step with both hands and don't let go.
Today I am in my dreams awake.
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
God Bless.
Lionel
i think that the gratitude of the "Curtis" (the higher power) would smile on the suffering and look to the crowd of the prosperous and wonder why they don't sacrifice for the needs of the less fortunate.
shake the hand and sacrifice a pack of smokes to the shadow that leans against the wall of every "non convenient" store............and never ever ask their name. you will remember each other.