Introduction 

Six ways to enhance your gratitude throughout the year is what this week’s blog covers. It may be the end of the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, but by no means is it the end of appreciation for all we have.

If you read this blog regularly, you are probably already on the same page as me, and I imagine you also agree that it works to take a refresher on these more important values. The more grateful we are, the more there is to embrace gratitude.

Check out the following six ways to enhance your practice of gratitude.

1. Remember to be Grateful

Remembering to be grateful is the key to consistency; gratitude and its accompanying benefits deepen with every application until it becomes second nature.

The following five ideas and practices will help you immerse yourself in an ocean of gratitude in and all around you.

If you have additional ideas to help the rest of us crystallize a practice of thankfulness, please write them in the comments. Thank you. 

2. A Litany of Gratitude

A litany is a repetitive chant of a lengthy duration. “Thank you” is short, memorable, and catchy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for everything that makes for a profound practice. When we immerse ourselves in thank you’s, we begin to see how we can even be grateful for being overweight, someone scamming us, losing a job, having a health problem, life, death, or worse.

Jenny (name and a couple of details disguised) came to me because her boss fired her. She hated her job. Her boss was abusive and always asked her to do tasks outside her job description. And now he had fired her.

The Tarot Mirror reflected a blessing that showed her a way out of an untenable situation, and her attitude became one of gratitude. She began to see how vital, loving her work in a stress-free environment was. Her next visit confirmed a new direction entirely.

She and her husband always wanted to work together, so they started a t-shirt business. They focused on clubs, churches, and schools and hit the ground running, making an unbelievable profit their first month right out of their garage.

We eventually discover a blessing in every occurrence, and if you look for it, you WILL find it. 100% Guaranteed!

3. Become familiar with the 23 symbols of gratitude

Why not get familiar with the symbols of gratitude? When you come across them daily, they’ll remind you how grateful you are for them and possibly everything.

Become childlike and collect a few personal objects that represent your sense of gratitude, and they will become mental/emotional anchors to appreciation. Place them around your house. If it isn’t already a sanctuary of thankfulness, your home will soon become one.

4. Gratitude for People

Other people can offer us some of life’s most frustrating lessons. Mindfully acknowledging what you appreciate in any given individual continuously lessens our frustration considerably. Please don’t believe me. Try it for yourself to see.

To begin, you might only see something superficial. “Well, I love that I don’t have to be around Joe all the time.” Or “I appreciate Brittany’s intelligence.”

With consistency, more to appreciate will surface. “I appreciate that Toni used to be a nice person. Hm. I wonder what happened.” See how one question can enrich understanding.

Ultimately, we may not even know why we’re grateful, just that we are. “I’m grateful for that guy who scared the hell out of me, cutting me off in traffic like that.”

Who knows, maybe he saved me from an accident.” We cannot know the big picture in most cases.

When we practice gratitude consistently, judgment for ourselves and others drop away.

5. Writing

Put your gratitude in writing. Post thankful messages on Social Media, or write your favorite appreciation quote under your email signature.

Start a Gratitude Journal and write three things every morning and evening before retiring. Three months makes for a great habit.

Stick post-it notes around your room or house with the words mirroring an attitude of gratitude written on them. There will come a time when you won’t “see” them anymore. Take them down and pop them back up a month later to enjoy again.

6. Expressing and Sharing Gratitude

Share gratitude symbols with others by giving them a unique rock, feather, crystal, poem, or purpose to help lift their spirits, etc. Create poetry or a song based on gratitude. Gratitude is contagious; the more we practice it, the more viral it gets.

Full Circle Gratitude

Thank you for reading my blog and for you, too. Writing it for you helped me revisit gratitude and develop new perspectives to deepen my practice. 

Love and Endless Gratitude,
Kaye

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