Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Attitude Gratitude

The Gratitude Journal

In her book ‘Simple Abundance’, Sarah Ban Breathnach describes how we can enrich our life by creating a daily gratitude journal.

‘Each night before I go to bed, I write down five things that I can be grateful about that day. Real life isn’t always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgment of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Simplicity, order, harmony, beauty and joy – all other principles that can transform your life will not blossom and flourish without gratitude…You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.

As you focus on the abundance rather than on the lack in your life, you will be designing a wonderful new blueprint for the future. This sense of fulfillment is gratitude at work. This sense of fulfillment is gratitude at work, transforming your dreams into reality. Begin this day to explore and integrate this beautiful, life-affirming principle into your life, and the miracle you have been seeking will unfold to your wonder and amazement’.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

5 things that i can be grateful about today:
- i'm alive
- i'm healthy
- i have my family
- i have my friends
- i have a job
:D

Happee Monkee said...

I'm grateful I have eyes to see beauty around me

I'm grateful to have ears to hear the birds

I'm grateful for touch so I can feel the breeze

I'm grateful for limbs so I am free to move

I'm grateful I am not poor

I'm grateful I am educated

I'm grateful I am not homeless

I'm grateful to live in a peaceful country and age

I'm grateful for wise insightful teachers

I'm grateful that I have good honest friends

And I'm grateful most of all for a loving no-nonsense supportive family.

Nadhirah said...

I was thinking about this post a couple of days ago, before the accident. I was thankful for the usual stuff.

You know, family, friends,.. the normal stuff.

But after the accident I came up with a new list.

I'm grateful the bug wasn't in the car when the accident happened.

I'm grateful the husband didn't hit the car infront.

I'm grateful it wasn't anything worse.

And now to the other stuff

I'm grateful I have great friends

I'm grateful I have great family

I'm grateful for the bug

I'm grateful for being able to type this today.