Update: Publishing an old post well-nigh How Practicing Gratitude Daily has made my life better. This was originally published virtually the covid times. Hope you find it helpful too.
The pandemic has not been easy for the weightier of us. Stuff cooped up and losing the self-rule to segregate is a taxing situation. From the transpiration in the work scenarios to opportunities lost and created, the corona has sure taken a toll on all of us mentally and emotionally. In reality, the truth is we do not requite our mental health their due. For leading the life you deserve, it is important that you requite as much importance to your mental and emotional health as much as your physical health. So, let us uncork with something really simple and really wondrous – practicing gratitude.
What exactly I midpoint by Practicing Gratitude?
Just jot lanugo 3 things every single day which you are thankful for. You do this either the first thing in the morning or the last thing at night surpassing you go to sleep.
You can do it on paper, alimony a periodical for this purpose or do it digitally. Whatever suits you best. This is not a therapy recommended for people who are depressed or extremely stressed. This practice can be followed by anyone. Basically, stuff thankful is one of the simplest way to increase the happiness quotient in your life. People who are happy lead a largest quality of life and inspire happiness in others virtually them. And, personally, this practice coupled with a few others helped me to proceeds a largest frame of mind over the years and focus on what is unquestionably important as opposed to just running in a rat race.
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Practicing Gratitude makes you Happy
In a rush to get things washed-up and to reach the next milestone, we often forget to take stock of our life and how farther superiority we have come from where we had started. Practicing gratitude makes you grounded and keeps you in touch with the most wondrous things in your life. Doing this everyday makes you happy, improves your mood and makes you fathom how far you have come instead of focusing on what you do not have.
Practicing Gratitude improves your Relationships
The increasingly conscious you are of everything in your life, the increasingly conscious you wilt of the people virtually you. You realize their significance in a largest way and understand how they have influenced your life for the better. In fact, your sensation of human psyche evolves to the extent of understanding their experiences and perspectives. Reaching that stage, I feel, is a huge milestone in itself. When you are so thankful to people in your lives, you consciously put increasingly effort into your relationships which in turn leads them to reciprocate your emotions with the same intensity.
Every single day, three variegated things and all positive. It can be well-nigh you, well-nigh everything in your life like your assets, relationships, situations, successes, anything at all, no matter how small.
Practicing Gratitude helps you Connect the Dots
One of the side effect of keeping a gratitude periodical is that over a undertow of time, you will delve into your past, present and future and this helps you connect the dots over a period of time. You realize how the events in your past shaped up your present, what could have been largest and what could have been handled increasingly gracefully. You learn from your own experiences considering you are taking a moment to pause and reflect. And, hopefully, if you protract in the same fashion, you will siphon your learning to a largest today and tomorrow.
So, these were my 2 shit well-nigh stuff thankful in life. And, of course, be thankful that you are working and thriving well unbearable to come wideness this article. That ways you are doing largest than 80%* of people in India itself. I hope you will try out this practice once and see how it works out for you, if nothing else. I would sincerely request you to requite it a try once. Even if it doesn’t work, it won’t do you any harm but by not trying, you might miss out on something life changing.
Till then, Swathy.
*Well, that is just a random number but yes it did make you finger better!