Our Topic Today: Practicing Gratitude with Simple Tools

• Learn some practical ways to start living a grateful life
• How to visualize gratitude in your daily surroundings

A Story of Time and Gratitude

• Sometimes things that are precious are intangible – like time and relationship
• Listen to the gratitude story here

Gratitude Relationship Practice

1. Think of 10 life roles you are playing now
2. Cross out two life roles to be abandoned. And right next to the deleted roles, write the deleting order
3. Cross out 4 more and write the deleting order
4. Cross out 2 more…

Ask yourself these questions.

• What are the 2 remaining roles that you didn’t cross out?
• Who are those people? How do you feel now?
• Why are they so special that you don’t want to delete in your life?

Reflect on the first 4 life roles one by one. There are several questions to think upon now.

1. What have s/he done for you for your benefit?
2. Have you taken for granted your relationship with that person/community?
3. Has that person sacrificed something for your sake?
4. How do you feel about your relationship with that person?
5. What do you most appreciate about that person and why are you grateful to that person?

Download the Gratitude Relationship Practice Worksheet here!

3 Creative Gratitude Practices

• Why I’m Grateful?
• Gratitude Walk
• Gratitude Collage

Why I’m Grateful?

• Be specific
• Include the details
  • “I am grateful for my family because…”
  • “Something good happened this week…”
  • “I am grateful for my friendship with… because…”
  • “I am grateful for who I am because…”
  • “Something silly that I am grateful for…”
  • “Something else I am grateful for…”

>> Click here to download the Worksheet

Gratitude Walk

• Use the five senses and be in the present moment
• Instill a sense of gratitude into the walk
• Attend to the beautiful things around you

1. Walk alone if possible (you can’t think if you’re chatting to a friend).
2. Find a peaceful location to walk in with minimal distractions or people around. The more literal space you have, the more breathing space you’ll have and the more freeing the walk will be.
3. Take a notepad and pen so you can jot down a list of 10 things you are completely grateful for. Feel that gratitude then walk on. Also jot down any ideas about projects to pursue or actions to take.
4. Take a deep breath in for five and out for five and notice your surroundings. Keep your head up as you walk. Look around you, breathe it all in, then let those creative thoughts flow.
5. Create the time to walk regularly. Just 15 minutes per day or even every other day will have a positive impact on your life

To learn more, click here.

Gratitude Collage

• keep track of things you are grateful for in pictures and drawings
• Open an Instagram account exclusively for your gratitude moments

1. Try taking a picture of one thing you are grateful for every day for a week.
2. Notice how you feel.
3. Take a look back at the pictures every week.

• Put all your pictures together in a collage and simply be grateful for all that you have

Words of Wisdom by Robert Holden

The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.

 Take-away messages

• Appreciating people around you is the first step to gratitude
• The small practices could help you build the momentum!
• Collect precious moments to be grateful for
• The PECFECT timing to live gratefully is NOW!!

Resources Mentioned

• Why I’m Grateful Practice – a daily gratitude practice with prompts to reflect on, giving you new perspectives on your life

  

• Gratitude Relationship Practice – includes the worksheet of My Life Roles and reflective questions on relationships

Do you have a gratitude practice you do regularly? Share it with me in the comments below! I would love hearing from you!

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