The Power of Gratitude

What do you feel grateful for today?

This is one practice that lifted me out of my darkest moments a couple of  years ago.  It is a simple one.  One that anyone can do.  And maybe hence often overlooked as a powerful tool.  This little focus on what I feel truly grateful for using just a simple pen and some paper, works wonders for me, even today.  Sometimes, as I lay in bed at night, I would recall whatever that I'd felt grateful for in the day.  And then drift off to sleep this way...  love its soothing effect.

When I came across this Tedx youtube video featuring Louie Schwarztberg on Gratitude, it brought tears of gratitude to my heart (what else ;) ).  Nothing like understanding for oneself, the power of something that someone talks about, through doing it.  For it really changed the way I viewed life.  Life in general, and more importantly, my life.  And it got me happier.  Fast.  With each repeated viewing of this video, I am humbled by the power of gratitude.  

Try it and you'll see.  One tip I found is, to mean what we say we are grateful for.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDMoiEkyuQ

Let me share perhaps in my next post what I'm grateful for ... for now I just want to say I'm grateful to have one of my fave youtubes on gratitude shared "out there", finally, as I've been wanting to do so for a long time.