The Gift of Gratitude
Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, an annual occasion to give thanks, to express gratitude — and eat your face off.
Sometimes it doesn’t feel like you have a lot to be grateful for. Especially when you are in excruciating pain.
I remember lots of times lying in bed in severe pain, wishing I could die. Didn’t seem like a lot to be grateful for.
Yet, every night, just before going to sleep, I would spend a minute ‘praying’ and telling God what I was grateful for. I developed this practice after reading an article on the power of gratitude. I’ve been doing it habitually for 6 or more years.
Sometimes, like those days when I spent the whole day with excruciating pain, it took a great effort to find things to be grateful for. Yet, I always did.
Why be grateful?
Because being grateful actually helps heal us. Research has demonstrated that changes in brain chemistry and the body happen when a person is grateful.
Give it a try.
What are you grateful for?
If you’re American, or not, why not take time this Thursday to tell someone(s) why you’re grateful they are in your life. Or, show your gratitude in some other tangible way.
Your body, mind, soul, and spirit will be grateful!
