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Gratitude Discussion Group
Hi everyone! Just before Thanksgiving @michellegraffradford posted a blog called Gratitude Changes Everything. She suggested three techniques to help incorporate gratitude into our daily lives:
- Start the Day with Gratitude (before getting up think of three people you are grateful for)
- Maintain a Gratitude Journal to record times when you are grateful
- Count Blessings – not sheep! (Review the day and remember moments of gratitude)
Her blogpost was so inspiring that a lot of us decided we wanted to form a Gratitude Group to keep the attitude of gratitude going. The blogpost area is not an ideal space for a big discussion group so I am moving the discussion over here to the “Just Want to Talk” Group. Let’s use this space to share and discuss our Gratitude Journey. I’m going to suggest that we each try to take a minute from the day and post here what has made us feel thankful today. It can be as small as a stranger’s smile on the bus or as large as fulfilling a major life dream – or anywhere in between. We can also discuss how we are doing with the three techniques. Sometimes it is easier to form new habits with support from others.
Michelle's full blogpost is at the link below. You may want to review it or print it out to help get started!
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/page/living-with-mild-cognitive-impairment-mci/newsfeed/gratitude-changes-everything/
I look forward to hearing from others in the Gratitude Group and to having others join us here! Thanks to those who already shared great stories. If you haven't yet, what gratitude will you share today?!
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@rosegold Thank you so much for your reply! I just found out I have heart failure and now this. I started to pass out and fell knee and head first to the floor. Injured my knee so badly I am bedridden. I’ve never had such pain in my life! The EMT’S found I was in afib so off to the hospital where they found the clot. Turns out I’m glad I fell or they never would have found the clot. Anyway, thank God for my brother. Thank you again for caring.
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4 ReactionsI start my day with an attitude of gratitude. I say to myself, "I am breathing (on my own). I can walk (on my own)." When my left foots hits the floor I say, "THANK" and then when my right foot right foot hits the floor I say "YOU." Left foot, THANK, Right Foot YOU. When I feel uptight, I just feel my left foot press into the floor, then I feel my right foot on the floor, and then I BREATHE. That is LEFT FOOT, RIGHT FOOT, BREATHE (from the book, Plan B).
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5 Reactions@karen00 so glad your o.k. now being grateful for you take care
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3 Reactions@lioness Thanks so much for the note! It’s been very, very hard as I also fight depression and anxiety, fibro and RA. My brother and I had moved in March and I don’t have any friends yet. I left behind a wonderful church. But I’m making it- Connect is helping!
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2 Reactions@karen00 glad to hear this we are all warriors whatever we are going through I found a website that maybe you might like http://www.nimh.nih.gov/depression also http://www.nlm.nih.gov this is the National Library of Medicine onward and upward
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1 Reaction@lioness No, I didn't, thank you for your concern. But I have several friends who did lose everything, in last year's Thomas Fire, or in the recent Woolsey Fire.
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3 ReactionsPraise God they found the clot right before X-mas!
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1 ReactionThis is a very worthwhile idea. I look forward to your blog.
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2 ReactionsGod Bless you and stay well!
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1 ReactionToday I am grateful for a beautiful sunrise. There were no deaths in yesterday's storm but a lot of debris flow. And for that I am grateful also. Hope everybody has a good Friday.
Ginger
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