GRATITUDE IS AN INSTANT REMEDY TO ILLUSIONS OF LACK

positivesynergy (43)in #life • 7 years ago (edited)

Appreciating Life and having gratitude is the foundation for making the most of your Life.

Gratitude is such a powerful emotion, one that can make your life better in so many ways. It’s quite difficult to feel depressed or sorry for yourself when you are feeling gratitude. In a study carried out by Emmons & McCullough in 2003, there were a multitude of benefits from keeping a gratitude journal, A simple notebook where you write down daily what you are grateful for. The study showed that the people who kept a journal exercised more regularly, reported fewer physical symptoms, felt better about their lives as a whole, and were more optimistic. It also showed that people who kept the journal were more likely to make progress towards their goals. Overall, there was a greater sense of feeling connected to others, a ,more optimistic view towards life and better sleep quality, relative to a control group. If you would like to experience some of these great benefits why not try some of these simple ways to make gratitude a part of everyday.

An Attitude of Gratitude:

An Attitude of Gratitude makes us happier, more optimistic, less self-centered, feel good, healthier, look good, our memories happier, us a more effective manager, reduces materialism, reduces feelings of envy, increases spiritualism, boosts our career, strengthens our emotions, increases self-esteem, improves our sleep, lets us live longer, increases your energy levels, helps us bounce back, helps us relax, helps our marriage, deepens friendships, increases our goal achievement, improves our decision making and increases our productivity.

We wish to inspire you to appreciate life, people and everything around you. "Stop and smell the roses" of this wonderful life. We have each been freely given to explore our world and all the different people, cultures and places on this living breathing planet we live on. When everything "seems" to be looking bad or crazy, we have found that just taking a few moments in our day to stop and smell the roses to take an inventory of all the positive things and blessings we have in our lives can make a world of difference. Clearly, the more we do that, the more we can benefit from truly appreciating life.

There is always someone else in this world of now more than 7.5 billion people who have it worse than us. There are over 2 billion people who live on less than 2 dollars a day. 25,000 children starve to death each and every day. I have been to some of the poorest countries on earth and found to our absolute amazement that more of those people have learned a secret that we in our modern "civilized" world seem to so easily to take for granted and forget. That secret is simply to learn to appreciate all of the blessings we have in our lives.

I will never forget the spirit of joy I saw in the eyes of the poorest man I have ever seen in a wheelchair with no legs going from car to car at a stop light in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, giving everyone a high 5 and a blast of happiness that I had never known before. That was my first trip outside of the United States in my early 20's and marked a major turning point in my life that opened my eyes to the amazing world of discovery and adventure that we have been given the opportunity to explore and learn so much from. I truly hope that you, the readers of this site, can close your eyes and imagine what a deep lesson I learned from that man of just how much of a difference the simple choice we each have of appreciating life can make. I thought to myself, if a man living in such absolute poverty who doesn't even have any legs can be so ecstatically happy, why can't you and I? Since then I have seen far more smiles on the faces of the poorest of the poor in the world than those of us in the so called "civilized world" have.

I wish I had a photo or video of him, but this video may suffice:

There are so many people and experiences we each have encounters with that hold hidden opportunities to learn as much as we can from every person we meet and every experience we have. Every cloud has a silver lining and this is dedicated to reminding ourselves, us included, of the wondrous benefits of appreciating life.

It is said in many ancient texts that the highest vibration man can reach is through the deepest [illuminated] realization of complete appreciation and gratitude of all we have. There is always some lemonade in the lemons of life or the opportunity in the challenges that life brings our way. Let's try more to stop for a moment and take inventory of all the blessings we have in our lives. Let's stop and smell the roses of this wonderful life. It is all about choice! We have each been given the freedom to decide what parallel universe of emotions to live within. Will that choice be to live within a universe of "doom and gloom" that in a way the media, Hollywood and others seem to have entrapped us within, or will we choose to find and/or create a universe of happiness and appreciation for all the wondrous beauty this world has to offer? This site is intended to help encourage all of us to make that positive conscious choice of appreciating life.

This weekend, take time to do whatever is within your ability to live life.

Excerpts of this above was taken from my site at Appreciating Life.

A few other posts I've shared on steemit:

Have an awesome day :)

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7 years ago in #life by positivesynergy (43)

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crypto.piotr (70) 7 years ago

Man. You are really active on steemit :)
So many posts every days. I found your content interesting but it's just hard to keep up

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positivesynergy (43) 7 years ago

Thanks, @crypto.piotr :) I saw in a video one of the whales shared on YouTube about steemit said the best results come from posting up to 4 times every day. So I thought I would really start with a lot of positive inspirational material. Gratitude really does change everything too :)

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