Gratitude Discussion Group

Posted by Debbra Williams, Alumna Mentor @debbraw, Nov 24, 2018

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?!

Interested in more discussions like this? Go to the Just Want to Talk Support Group.

Merry, Alumni Mentor | @merpreb | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @jakedduck1 "@lioness Beautiful Linda. I took a test earlier today about my artistic ability, don’t ask about..." + (show)

Jake- Nothing in the natural world is straight so why should it be easy to draw straight lines?

Merry, Alumni Mentor | @merpreb | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @lioness "@hopeful33250 and all cyber family Happy ,4th I painted this a few years ago" + (show)

I love this @lioness.

Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @merpreb "Jake- Nothing in the natural world is straight so why should it be easy to draw..." + (show)

@merpreb
Thank you for that Mary but considering I had a ruler it shouldn’t have been so difficult. Oh well, I just wasn’t cut out to be a calligrapher.
Jake

lioness | @lioness | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @merpreb "I love this @lioness." + (show)

@merpreb Thanks We all go up on our roof to watch fireworks but I love Pittsburgh 3,Rivers fireworks from the barges

Ginger, Volunteer Mentor | @gingerw | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @jakedduck1 "@merpreb Thank you for that Mary but considering I had a ruler it shouldn’t have been..." + (show)

@jakedduck1 You don't have to draw a straight line to do Zentangle. It is, as they say, "one stroke at.a time", and you can accomplish what you didn't know you couldn't do.
Ginger

Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @gingerw "@jakedduck1 You don't have to draw a straight line to do Zentangle. It is, as they..." + (show)

@gingerw
Maybe not but it looks like you have to match previous lines and have an imagination and have have at least some artistic ability. I have none, absolutely none.
Jake

jodeej | @jodeej | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @jakedduck1 "@gingerw Maybe not but it looks like you have to match previous lines and have an..." + (show)

@jakedduck1 it sounds you and I are evenly matched in the lack of artistic ability. Lol 😀

Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @jodeej "@jakedduck1 it sounds you and I are evenly matched in the lack of artistic ability. Lol..." + (show)

@jodeej
Mercy gracious, you can’t possibly be that pathetic.
Jake

Sheri Donaldson | @sheridonaldson | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @jakedduck1 "@sheridonaldson I took fish oil for awhile but it didn’t help my eyes any, at least..." + (show)

🙁 glad you still have central vision though. Hope you're not planning to kick off any time soon!

Ginger, Volunteer Mentor | @gingerw | Jul 2, 2019

In reply to @jakedduck1 "@gingerw Maybe not but it looks like you have to match previous lines and have an..." + (show)

@jakedduck1 @jodeej That one of the beauties of Zentangle practice. There are no rules like that! The rules are that you are grateful to put pen to paper, appreciate your time spent focusing, and in the end, appreciate (once again) what you created. Taking the training with 150 others, we all followed the same verbal instructions, and absolutely each one of us had a different piece to show at the end. Each was uniquely our own and each was beautiful. Believe me, it is doable!
Ginger