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I'll take this space to mention two simple life changing gratitude practices that I have habitualized: 1. Every morning, before I allow myself to look at email
by wintermutestwin 5y ago
I'll take this space to mention two simple life changing gratitude practices that I have habitualized:
1. Every morning, before I allow myself to look at email/news/etc, I think of three things that I am grateful for.
2. Every night at bedtime, my partner and I tell each other three things we are grateful for about each other and one thing that we are grateful for about ourselves.
I find that bookending my days with gratitude like this makes it easier to live each day in a state of thankfulness.
- k8sToGo 5y agoTo me this sounds too much like the daily scrum meetings or stand ups where you have to come up with something just so you can say something and, in this case, go to bed. But I only mean this as a joke. I think it is great to have "rituals" that help us look and appreciate more stuff what we have already or where we are and where we came from.
- cgriswald 5y agoMaintaining sleep hygiene takes precedence to me over essentially anything else and coming up with four things before sounds anxiety-inducing. We do this type of thing before our evening meal, instead. For me, anyway, this is much lower stakes and so there is less anxiety. Which results in it just sort of flowing out—especially after doing it for awhile—but not in an 'autopilot' sort of way.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoPart of the point of our bed time ritual is to look for and accumulate "gratefuls" throughout the day. In this way, I am training my pattern recognizing CPU to spot the positives rather than the negatives that it tends to focus on.
- AlexCoventry 5y ago"I'm thankful for the way the adversity you gratuitously create in my life advances my spiritual practice. Sweet dreams!"
- lovecg 5y agoThere’s some research behind this though. It’s the act of thinking of something to be grateful for that’s useful - it strengthens your “gratitude muscles”. It was surprisingly hard for me to come up with three new things day after day initially. Try it for a week - you have nothing to lose and the potential upside is huge!
- uwagar 5y agoi hope ur life gets less boring and more adventurous ;)
- pkdpic 5y agoI love this and Im going to try this with my partner. Thank you for sharing it :^)
- quickthrower2 5y agoBeing grateful is good! But being jealous, angry, bitter etc. are also valid emotions, not sins. (I don’t believe in Dante’s Inferno etc.). Those emotions are signal that something needs fixing. Sometimes it can be fixed in a second if it’s a silly thing. Sometime it can take a lifetime, if it’s grieving for example.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoOur family’s ancient religious practices also incorporate these rituals. It’s great giving the children an opportunity every night to share what they are thankful for. My favorite was ‘blankets’ :)