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Ways Gratitude Can Increase Your Happiness
A daily practice of gratitude can help keep
you feeling happy more often, simply because gratitude smoothes
the rough edges in your life and keeps you focused on the good
stuff, rather than obsessing about things that might detract
from your sense of happiness.
Below you’ll find three simple ways to use gratitude to be
happier every day:
1.
Be grateful for the blessings you have now.
Obviously,
focusing on the positive aspects of your circumstances helps
you feel happy and content but it’s very easy to slip into
a negative focus and see only problems and obstacles. Make
it a habit to consciously focus on the good stuff as often
as possible. You can keep a written gratitude journal, or
simply
recite a mental list of things to be grateful for each night
before you go to sleep. If you’re dealing with a lot of problems
or upsets in your life right now, you may not think you have
much to be grateful for, but even the small things can make
you feel more fortunate. Give thanks for the people in your
life, beloved pets, your health, freedom and more. Take nothing
for granted, and you’ll soon realize just how blessed you
are.
2.
Be grateful and optimistic about the good things on their
way to you.
One
reason you may feel dissatisfied with your life is because
you believe it will always be this way. However,
just because you can’t see any way to improve your circumstances
now doesn’t mean that miracles can’t show up later. Instead
of getting mired in pessimism and doubt, affirm and know
that the things you want are on the way. Give thanks for
these things
as if you know with absolute certainty that they will be
yours. The more you do this, the happier you’ll feel – and
that happiness
will continue to grow as your circumstances improve.
3.
Make mountains out of molehills.
Have
you ever made a big deal over a minor problem and blown it
all out of proportion?
Most of us have. While that’s typically a bad thing to do,
you can turn it around and make it a GOOD thing. Make a huge
deal out of every tiny blessing and good thing that happens
to you. Did you win $5.00 on an instant scratch ticket? Whoop
and holler about it (even if only mentally)! Allow yourself
to be overcome with the same amount of gratitude you’d feel
if you won $50,000.00. When someone pays you a compliment,
allow yourself to feel wonderful about it. When anything
good happens, mentally turn it into a GREAT experience. You may notice that these gratitude exercises have one common
theme: they are all about PERCEPTION. In every situation there
are positives and negatives, and your mood and mind-set are
very much the result of what you choose to focus on the most.
Choose pessimism and lack, and you’ll feel miserable. Choose
gratitude and joy, and you’ll feel happy!
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: 2009
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