Bedtime meditation
As I lie in bed at night, I practice a simple gratitude meditation before I fall asleep. For about five minutes, I review my day, and focus on a few things that I am thankful for (trash cans, toilet paper, healthy toenails). It is not as important what my gratitude is about (whether it something small, like the London transport …
Thankful lists
There are quite a few lists of what people on the internet are thankful for. From my exhaustive search, I learned a number of quality things: People are notably more thankful around thanksgiving. People tend to be very thankful for their family and friends. Either that, or they’re concerned their family might discover their list and question why they’re not …
Off the ground
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. – Amelia Earhart Does that mean that when you fly to more daring heights you gain a deeper understanding of thankfulness when you come to rest on …
Master key
I have just found the master key to gratitude. Which is really lucky, considering that I had undertaken the arduous task of finding the key to gratitude just three days ago. I figured with my highly analytical research skills, I would be able to hammer out a proposal this week detailing how I would uncover the cosmic solution from the …
Better sleep, more energy
Highlights from the Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness conducted at UCDavis mentioned some of the benefits of being grateful: Participants felt better about their lives as a whole. They were more optimistic about the upcoming week. They were more likely to have made progress towards important personal goals. They had higher levels of positive states of alertness, enthusiasm, determination, …
What we take for granted
A recent article from DailyOM, Empathy in Action discussed another method for practicing gratitude by taking an inventory of your life’s blessings. I tried this once, but then the IRS showed up to audit my accounts, which just made things complicated, and now I have to fill out an additional form when I do my taxes. The DailyOM suggested a …
Simple gratitude exercise
Gratitude is a very powerful mechanism for letting go of stress in your life and regaining your happiness. Here is a very simple exercise from the Positive Psychology Center at the UPenn in the article A very different kind of upper: At the end of each day, take a moment to go over three good things that happened to you. …
Appreciation & Gratitude
I’ve decided to revive my blog, with a weekly theme on topics about personal development. To start off with, I have decided to explore the theme of gratitude. Thankfully, I’ll only have write about it for a week.