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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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Yes, @parus, your numbness is probably related to the spinal problems. I did not know that TMJ can cause ear ringing. That is interesting.
Is your numbness in the upper or lower extremities?
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4 Reactions@hopeful33250 The numbness alternates between upper and lower. Thankful this is how it has been thus far.
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2 ReactionsToday I am grateful. Our little town's only coffeehouse has decided to be open 3 hours a day, four days a week, for curbside pickup orders only. She is a one-person business, and much-loved by everyone. Her whole family is!
And I am even more grateful that our neighbor-just-beyond [a vacant lot separates us] came home from his job as public works leader here in town, then set about brush-hogging our property line to remove the wild blackberry bushes. The empty lots belong to an absentee owner, who has refused to maintain his properties. Totally unexpected, but so totally this young man's character. He has really helped us understand small town friends.
Ginger
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5 Reactions@gingerw I had a very big surprise A friend of mine came into some money and took me grocery shopping I stocked up on things I was lo in what a surprise and I am so grateful Then she was 14.00 over and the cashier told her she will get it for her What nice people There are decent good people in the world I think this virus is bringing our the best in people
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5 ReactionsThe other day we got our first official thunderstorm of the season and out my front door was a vivid double rainbow. The sky in the background all smokey gray, I could distinctly pick out each ribbon of color separately like someone painted them. To have a minute of beauty like that never gets old.
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4 ReactionsWhat a beautiful gift in these difficult days.
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1 Reaction@januaryjane We might have a thunderstorm today, but we would rather just have some rain. We are below normal rainfall, and they might declare the fire season earlier than 6/11. Thunderstorms are a neat thing, but not in this heavy timber area, where there are many lightening caused fires each year. Your rainbow sounds beautiful!
Ginger
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1 ReactionI remember as a child sitting on the deck with my siblings during thunder storms. I've always loved the smell of rain. We would make up what things were causing the thunder and lightning. Thunder was God rearranging his furniture. I don't remember what we thought the lightning was.
Wildfires destroy a lot of timber and any structures are in its path. Some are lightning strikes, but too many are caused by careless campers and hunters, and worst of all are the work of an arsonist. A couple of years ago a teenager tossed some fireworks down the hill into the dry forest, and thousands of acres in the Columbia Gorge were lost. The store was heroically saved, but the trail to the falls was closed. The cost of fighting the fires is astronomical.
But I always enjoy the gift of rainbows and the meaning and promise that they symbolize.
Jim
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1 ReactionJim,
Let’s not forget the Thomas,hill, and Wolsey canyon fires that destroyed California in late 2018. Homes burned down, the fires burned all the way to Malibu.
Besides all the wildlife lost, and many humans died in the fire, the fault was our local utilities, not keeping the brush, weeds off the area of their high power lines. It was found to be total neglect. More then one power company is found to be at fault.
I am reminded of the fires, since I do not have to look far to see neighbors homes yet to be rebuilt, some half rebuilt, as well as my own home still torn apart from the fire. My home has been in rebuild limbo since February due to the corona 19 virus.
The past 18 months have not been easy that for sure.
I might add some insurance companies are not so easy to deal with,while others are easy to work with.
Mine was somewhere inbetween.
@jimhd We had a short-lived rainbow right after our last heavy thunderstorm about 5:30pm. Our big Milepost 97 fire last year was caused by squatters on BLM land.
@funcountess The Thomas Fire was in Dec 2017. I was a quarter mile away. Many of my friends and co-workers lost their houses and everything they owned. Most of them are rebuilding, including my Tai Chi Chuan teacher, who is now 82.
Ginger