Attitude Of Gratitude Mindset
On a daily basis you run around trying to survive! It induces many feelings of frustration and anxiety about life. It isn’t easy to be grateful about anything when you are dealing with annoying co-workers, impossible boss, and feelings of sadness or perpetual disappointment. Why do we live in a state of unhappiness? Feeling joyful about anything in your life releases happy hormones. Who doesn’t love the heightened state of being ecstatic after a great meal, intimacy, friendships, a great movie, and a good laugh!?
Does Daily Gratitude Work?
If you practice giving thanks for your life and all you have, then you will have a well-formed opinion about gratitude work. There are studies that show gratitude does release happy hormones and heighten joy in your life. The more you allow yourself to be heart centred vs feeling empty, your attitude to your life and everything you have in it will begin to shift. Before humans developed language, they communicated through pictorial language. Humans still make pictures in their minds. Then they attach emotions and meanings to those images creating a library of experiences that they live through. If you have attached good feelings to something or someone, thinking about them helps you feel connected, worthy, and alive.
For example, saying or receiving a “thank you”, can make you and the receiver feel good. Being in a grateful state connects your brain to sensations of delight and you form memories of happier times. When you are feeling blue, you reach out to the people who comfort you. You try to stay away from the people who cause you further distress you. Thankfulness helps build trust and creates connectivity, which help you feel like you belong. Belonging is another important human need. Fitting in, mould’s communities. This is why groups of people with similar interests’ flock together. Our basic needs are to feel valid, included, certainty, and loved. The opposite to feeling valid, included, certainty, and loved are despair, disconnected, discontent, and unworthy. To change your melancholy, reminding yourself of the good things in your life can change your brainwaves.
See how differently you start to view your life when you look at how much goodness is in your life.
At the lowest points in my life including suicide attempts, I thought about the people who truly loved me. They are the reason I'm still in this world. I'm grateful for their love. I no longer feel suicidal at all. I kept going, on my self-discovery journey. Shifting my self-image and my Mindset.
I'm grateful for my clients and friends.
What brings you joy daily?
3 Steps to Practicing Gratitude
Make a list of the things in your life that bring you joy and comfort. When you think about them, you feel warm and fuzzy. They are usually connected to what you also value in your life. Values is a topic I’ll cover in another blog. When you feel alone, think about the people who love and support you. Think about the things you do have in your life vs what you don’t have at the moment.
Make an alter or keep your list somewhere visible.
Set a reminder to give gratitude to at least 1 thing on your list. Practice giving thanks at the start of your day or end of your day, or both.
Thank you goes a long way. Positivity is contagious. Spread it around!
More helpful blogs to follow in 2023 and stay tuned for predictions for 2023
Sending love,
Nita
