Gratitude

Building a practice that focuses on gratitude can enhance your experience of life and shift the balance of your attitude towards the positive no matter what your circumstances. Like anything, it takes practice: repeated actions, not just good intentions. Let’s try it for a month! This challenge offers a chance to build mental and emotional health, a key part of building deep resilience in the face of all of life’s challenges: mind, heart, body and soul.

Daily:
Appreciate something you have (necessities or extras!)
Express sincere gratitude

To Do:
Write a heartfelt thank-you card
Write a letter of gratitude (Thank someone who has done something that really matters to you. You don’t have to mail the letter–this is for you.)

Reflection:
It was a joy to share my ongoing daily gratitude practice with my guildmembers in December. The stories that they shared warmed my heart, and brought home to me the power of focusing on the things we are grateful for in life more than ever.

Today I am grateful to be alive, in a warm home that was touched by sunshine this afternoon. I’m grateful for the beauty of nature around me, and my affectionate cat, my friends both near and far, the abundance of food I’m lucky enough to enjoy… and especially, for all the love in my life.