“Walk as if you are kissing the
Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step:
The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Charise’s Turn:
One of the first assignments in my fundamentals coaching
course was to keep a gratitude journal. We were learning about the relationship
of gratitude to happiness and how gratitude is one of the most malleable character
strengths because you can increase your capacity for it. You can put it into
practice; you can exercise it. What we did was this: write down three to five
things we were grateful for each day for a week. For me this was like piecing the day together, and it made an impression.
I haven’t continued to keep a gratitude journal, but somewhere
along the way, I’ve learned to experience gratitude as more of a qualitative
state, something like reverence. It’s not really about picking out what I’m grateful
for, it’s a wholistic gratitude (holistic may be more correct, but I like
the whole in wholistic). What do I
mean by this? Think of the stitches that together make a tapestry, and each separate stitch contributes to the overall look and feel of it. The tapestry is too
large to see in its entirety and it’s continually in the making. Stay with this
image…you may find that you are in awe of the magnitude and uniqueness of the tapestry
that is, metaphorically, your life. Then...make no requirements but to be with the immensity of what you are experiencing. Be wowed. “Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos.” -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Get Fired Up:
Practice gratitude.
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