experience with gratitude

[Ruth Garbus]

Dear Friends,

I awakened early with great anxiety. Feelings of loneliness and separation overwhelmed me. Then I remembered to write my gratitude. Start Gratitude, a practice of mental cleansing. All of the heaviness I felt lifted, and suddenly I felt as if I could cope. All of my despair over recent losses and anticipated losses disappeared, with the practice of gratitude....I am grateful for the love in my life; the aloneness...it is a time to develop gratitude and finish projects, to be real about what I can accomplish, and what I cannot. Gratitude is about reality, reality without anxiety and loss permeating. Please keep posting your experiences of gratitude. It is a bond for us that comes without obligation or regret.

[Elisabetta Errani Emaldi]

[Silja Saareoks-Kaldre]

Although we feel lonely sometimes, there are always the people who need us and the ones who we need. Sometimes when we're not being focused on what we really need, we may get sinking too deep on seeing what have been gone wrong in our lives and forget how to be happy. Then all we do need is to change the focus of the thoughts from what's makes us feel miserable to what really leads us for happy feeling again. Then we can also share this happiness with the ones we care and love and with all that surrounds us. But we can be grateful for the power that we all have to make this change. Gratitude is one of the most powerful ways to open ourselves for more. Thank you.