Gratitude
“ Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” Denis Waitley Why practice gratitude? Does gratitude mean ignoring challenging moments and ‘faking’ it? What can gratitude actually do for you? I am fascinated lately with the concept of gratitude and how it can help support living a fuller life. As I have discussed in my recents posts about the power of positive thinking, I have been searching on how and why gratitude connects to this. When life is hard (which it often is), it is really easily to fall into negative thought patterns and focus on the bad. And truth be told, the bad can easily consume and override the positives. I often hear about creating a gratitude journal and have disregarded this as a feeble attempt to make you feel better about sucky situations. As I have really started to research and better understand gratitude, I realize