Gratitude (or our lack of it) is the lens which we experience our world.
- It affects everything and anything in our life
- When we are grateful, it changes our focus, and we get what we focus on.
- When we are grateful, we get more to be grateful for.
- What you focus on expands. When you focus on the good, you get more of it.
- When we complain, or are upset with things, and let things annoy us, we will get more of those things in our world.
People, who regularly practice gratitude experience more positive emotions, feel more alive, sleep better, express more compassion and kindness, and even have a stronger immune system than people who don’t regularly practice gratitude.
Hal Elrod
Gratitude makes everything in our life better.
- We stop complaining when we go to gratitude.
- When we appreciate our relationships and opportunities, they grow in value
“Anxiety can’t live in the same head at the same time as gratitude.”
James Altisher
Re-source: Recondition
the circumstances affecting the way in which people live or work, especially with regard to their well-being
When we express gratitude consistently, it changes our brains
- When you do the process, you feel better about yourself. And as you feel better about yourself, you are able to do more in life.
- It’s a cycle that you just keep getting better and better at it.
Happiness is not joy.
- Happiness is moment to moment, externally triggered, and it is fickle.
- Happiness shuns and avoids pain and grief.
- For instance, you can’t be happy if your mom is dying. However, you can be joyful with that.
- Joy in contrast to happiness is lasting.
- It is something that continues.
- It is cultivated from within.
- It is portable so you take it with you for any circumstance or any feeling that you might have.
- Whereas happiness is dependent on circumstance, joy shapes circumstance.
- Joy can take in the entire range of human emotions.
- “I can still be joyful in the midst of sadness.”
Set a gratitude alarm. Set an alarm everyday (multiple times a day) for taking time to be grateful.
- It’s a trigger to stop, breathe deeply, and experience the miracle of how blessed you are.
Start your day with gratitude, and also before you sleep.
- Think of things that make you smile.
- It creates this beautiful inner sense of “life is amazing.”
craving and resource from “How Gratitude Changes Everything” with Chip Franks (halelrod.com – Achieve your goals padcast by Hal Elrod)