Each morning when I wake up, I express my gratitude for my life. It sets my morning off to a good start and reminds me that there is always something to be grateful for.
This month most of us will be celebrating Thanksgiving, so I thought it was the perfect time to focus on a month of gratitude and being thankful.
Being grateful gives us so many benefits. It helps build good relationships, improves mental health and self-esteem. It can even help you sleep better. Having a mindset of gratitude can start you on a path of positive thoughts.
There are two parts to this challenge. First, I created a monthly gratitude calendar for you to use this month. You can print that out here. Please spend a few moments each day writing down at least one thing for which you are grateful. Each day make it something different. A good practice would be to do this right before bed so that you can reflect on the day events.
At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer
We are already on day four of the month, so you have some catching up to do!
This week’s mindfulness challenge is to find your gratitude friend.
Pick a friend and ask them to be your gratitude friend for the week.
Once you have the cooperation of your friend, make a pact that each day you will text, call, or find another creative way to get to them with a message of gratitude.
Here is where it gets fun because they can’t share their gratitude with you until you tag them with your gratitude. It’s like a game of tag, gratitude tag.
It doesn’t have to take an enormous amount of time. If you call, speak your gratitude, then hang up. If you text, say what you are grateful for later end it with a “tag your it.” Have as much fun with this as you can.
Once they receive your gratitude message, it is their turn to send one back to you.
Once you receive their message, take a moment to reflect on what your friend is grateful for. As you sit in silence, thinking about your friend’s gratitude, send out wishes for more grateful things to come into their life.
No reminders from your friend! You must go first. This about training your brain to focus on the positive things in your life and appreciate the positive things in your friend’s life.
Do this for seven days straight. Tag your it!
It is one thing for us to appreciate the great things going on in our life. It’s even better and helps us have an even more positive mindset when we can understand what is going on in other people’s lives as well. It is a spiral of gratitude.
Have fun with this! While you’re at it, make sure you and your friends don’t miss out on the weekly mindfulness challenges. Sign up here.
Others articles you may have missed this past week (it’s a good one, so check it out):
Be Your Hero, Six Steps to Living Your Authentic Life
Peace & Love,
Ela
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