The invitation this week is to fill your heart, soul and body with gratitude each and every day. Here’s how to go about doing just that.
Place beside your bed a sheet of paper or even a journal as well as a pen or pencil. This is going to take only five minutes every day.
Before you go to sleep, retrieve the piece of paper beside your bed (or your journal) and your writing instrument. Reflect back on the day you have just finished living. Write a notation of three experiences that you are grateful for each day this week.
Experiences you record do not have to be large events. They could be very tiny indeed; a smell that you appreciated, a look from a stranger; a comment from a friend or a loved one; a compliment; a special way that you happened to feel earlier in the day even if only for a few minutes.
Don’t make this activity a big deal. You will not do it if you do make it a big deal. It’s a small deal. At the end of the day, take out the paper and pen or pencil and enter a short and sweet notation that answers the question, “What have I been grateful for on this particular day?”
There is no screening or decision making involved here. There is certainly no editing required. Simply make a note of whatever comes first to your mind.
- Experience one
- Experience two
- Experience three
Record whatever you are grateful for – big events or tiny events. Whatever comes to your mind first. You can always add to the list if you wish.
- It may be certain memories you are grateful for.
- It may be certain thoughts.
- It may be a certain feeling
- It may be a message your body is communicating to you that has been a welcome, delightful gift.
Whatever you are grateful for note it on your paper at the end of the day. Do it every day. We’re talking just about a week’s exercise five-minutes every day. Becoming mindfully grateful can fill your days with an abundance of joy and happiness.
Enjoy being grateful this week. You can even be grateful you are being grateful!
Robert
© Parkinsons Recovery