Damn it..
Too bad my awesome gift of sight seems only to work in the hind sense of it.

Hahaha. Get it? Hindsight.
hahaha

Clearly..
For those of you to whom such things actually ARE ( clear, that is) ... haha..
Title should have read..

How to Have a Positive Attitude ...

In spite of living with pain. "

I prefer pisitivity myself though my spell check just corrected it 3 times! Ha

I love that through it all someone can still find my funnybone it's a trophy I like to share ;)

I go in and out with the gratitude list.........I use one when I need it the most. I find myself in the deepest darkest pit and remember to write a list.

You're right you will never run out of things to be thankful for. A strangers smile is worth a day's doom.


A way I fight the negative is to try to balance it. If I think or say a negative I have to think or say a positive.

Example: Today sucked! I am in the flair from h--- and no one around me understands. I feel alone and I could throw something at the wall right now. But I made myself a nice lunch and it warmed up just a little bit today.

This way the negative doesn't get to own me. Some days the negative wins, but most days I don't allow it :)

Hugs

I said friggin' " pisitivity " as well.

Sorry, y'all.
There was a time when I would have let such things keep me from coming back on for quite some time, due to embarrassment.
I just don't have all that ego any more
That..
And everyone here has always been so kind about my godaweful typing errors.

HUGZZZZZZZZZ

Damn it..
I'm sorry you're in an awful flare, dear friend.
I wish there was someone comforting and kind to you there.
I'll be thinking of you..
And sending positive. Hopes your way, bud.
Hugs

I appreciate how you find the humor in thi gs

And thiNg's, too. :-) :-) :-)

Hey my friend you always bring a smile to my face. When I saw the title I was guessing it was you. I needed a smile. Good to see you here.

I had started a gratitude book that my husband and I were going to put down at least one thing positive that happened that day. Sometimes all I could come up with is that we were still "Above the Green".

I need to get back to it. It is good to be able to read it when you are having a bad day. Helps you remember that there are many things to still be grateful for.

Wishing all positive moments to be grateful for.

Hugs-RJ

It's so great to see you, RJ. !!
Ha! Everyday that you can say you're on the right side of the grass ( the green side)
Hahahaha..like I had to clarify :-) :-) :-)

Anyway.. any day you can say that..
Means there's at least the potential to find something to be grateful for :-)
That's really nice that you're doing that with your husband.

Hugs
jc

We do something similar in my house. My wife and I each have a gratitude box and we write something we are grateful for everyday and than on New Year's Eve we open them and share all the things we have been grateful for over the whole year.last year it was awesome to learn all the same things and different things we were grateful for in our life. Its never to late in the year to start either. We decorated out boxes to make it more fun. Gratitude On my friends.

Dragonflylady..
What a very lovely way to express and share gratitude.
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As for me, I do volunteer work. Helping other people with their problems in life makes me feel better about my own.

Respectful I also do volunteer work which is one of the most wonderful ways of showing gratitude. Thanks for sharing that. Its easy to forget all the ways we are grateful or could show or find gratitude.

One of the things that helps me think positively is to try to put my negative thoughts in perspective. When I'm feeling badly about something, I try to think about how things could be worse, and try to look for any good in the current situation. Obviously it's easier said than done! I'm naturally a pessimist, so questioning my pessimistic thoughts is difficult but necessary.

I also try to practice a lot of gratitude. I heard this great question recently: "What if the only things you had tomorrow were the things you were thankful about today?" Being cognizant of all the good things in my life helps me make it through the bad things.

how did I miss this while in hospital? Humm let me come back to this one in later tonight time....I am overdone on time online for now and want to shut this computer off for while and take a selfie of me in my new Eye Glasses! Will post it maybe as avitar maybe just in photos....see ya later tonight Jancam....

I always give out a few bucks to the people in front of Walmart asking for money, or to the veterans or salvation army people. When I was driving cross country, even before I got sick, I would give homeless people up to 20 bucks at a time. I think everyone needs help from time to time. If you want to learn a true lesson in gratitude, you should watch a documentary of Mother Teresa. She would rip out the carpets in building they donated for her and her fellow nuns to live in. She would not keep the air-conditioners, and she did not believe in using heaters. She lived just like the poor people.

I also still hold out hope of miracle happening. I have been doing lot of reading on our lady of Lourdes, There is a fountain there in France where some people have been healed over the years. This poor saint suffered from Tuberculosis of the leg and she never complained. It is a condition that is way worse than the condition I have in my leg, and this lay suffered with the pain for years without any pain meds. It makes me feel like a weakling sitting here taking my pain killers to get by. You can look up the story or Our Lady or Lourdes France. I want to go there some day, or even order some of that spring water and pray for a miracle.

Also, knowing that we will not be in pain when me cross over into the next life gives me a lot of inner strength to press through each new day. This life is just a temporary journey. We will all be made whole in the next life. We are here to learn things. I have been learning a lot of new things since pain has crept into my life. I look forward to the day when we can all be made new. I hope I didn't get too spiritual for you all. I hope everyone is having a low pain, low stress weekend!