Happiness Series #2 Gratitudes

Happiness Series # 2

Source: By Stuart Miles, published on 21 June 2012

Gratitudes

Gratitude’s

There are times when we may focus on the negative stuff. The glass is not half full or half empty its half full of water and half full of air. We need both to live. Be grateful. If you are reading this then you are among the worlds most fortunate people. You can read and you have access to things you do not require to survive.

Chances are you have both food and water or easy access to them. Chances are you have a roof over your head and you are alive. Every thing else is gravy. There have been people who have been in the most dire circumstances and have been able to maintain a level of happiness that surprises most.

What you focus on is what thrives. If you focus on your misery you give it strength. If you drive a car you know when you started driving that where you looked is where the car went. If you can be grateful you can have more to be grateful for. This does not mean for you to go into denial and not deal with your problems. Deal with them and be grateful you could.

My car broke down. I am grateful I have a car. I enjoy driving. When I get tired of driving I am still grateful I can drive and I have a car. The car I have now, well, it took a little bit to be grateful for it. We named it and focused on all the cool things about it. From the smallest thing –fascinating cup holders to the biggest thing –we could get from point a to point b. Now we have more positive feelings about the car, driving in it, and finding it in a parking lot. We are grateful for it, so it makes us happy.

When you focus on gratitude’s; say by saying five things you’re grateful for before going to bed at night, or waking up and being thankful for being in bed and having the opportunities of a new day, you are inviting more happiness into your life. Instead of focusing on what you don’t like about your home focus on what you do like about it. This is a good idea even if you want to move. It will help you move into a better place rather then one where all your complaints will happen all over again.

Doing gratitude’s – going over things you’re a grateful for leads you to more things you are grateful for. You focus on what is good in your life. You focus on what you do want in your life and this is what you go toward. Even when, or maybe especially when things are hard; do your gratitudes.

Some people keep a notebook and every day, or every week they add things they a grateful for. Then when there spirits are low they can see the good in their lives. Keep adding to it and it will show you what makes life worthwhile.

Gratitude recap:

1. What you focus on is where you go.

2. If you are focused on gratitude’s you will invite more happiness into your life.

3. Some times we focus on the negative and forget all the wondrous things around us.

4. Make gratitude’s a regular part of your day. You will be happier.

5. Keep a notebook and when you get down look at all you have and have had to be grateful for.

What ways do you express gratitude? Has it ever back fired? What else could we do to use gratitude to improve our life’s and happiness?