Yes. But, I think that’s probably just my anxiety telling me that I don’t have anything to be grateful for in this life.
Sometimes yes.. But there’s ALWAYS something to be grateful for. Even the fact you are able to type this question and can read the answers coming from it, is already something to be grateful for😊
I am never ungrateful. Watching the struggles my mother faced when bringing me up helped me realise that nobody is alone in the world.
Not really but sometimes I do feel like there are things I should worry about or wish I had than things I’m grateful for
sometimes yes.. I feel nothing, because since i child, i often heard my parents say bad words to me and always comparing me to other child, that makes me doesn’t realize about myself because I’m to busy to achieve my parents dream for me. I forgot to appreciate myself when I achieve something and I not accustomed to feel grateful to myself.
Sometimes, yes. But I remember to always look for something, like the weather, or even being grateful for having a roof over my head and money to buy food. After continuing the gratitude practice for a while, I now feel more grateful in my everyday life. Keep trying, you will get there!
Even the greatest buddist monk will experience things like saddness, anger, discomfort or negative thoughts like lack of gratitude. I think that important part of our lives is accepting and realizing that our thoughts and emotions are not always correct and there are millions of ways to interpret one thing. Sometimes when I think to myself that everything in my life is pointless and worthless I say to myself "Yeah, you can think that, but you also can think of it differently and positively, because there are million ways to interpret it and none of them is more or less right." I hope you understood me, I think gratitude is a really tricky thing, because we are tought since we are born that we should try to achieve more to earn more money in future to buy more things and so on and so on. Anyway, I hope you will find gratitude, that I am sure is already in you; you just have to look for it. Have a gday :)
Almost never. Because I truly have so much to be thankful for. There have been times , many times in my younger days when that was true. I have taken a 12 week meditation course which began another journey for me. My husband and I did that together so we could strengthen each other. I have found many of Dr Sood’s books from Mayo Clinic to have helped me very much.
I do. I think we all do. The thing is we need one positive thing in our lives to clinge to. My life was just a big mess just a few months ago, i was in a toxic relationship and basicly everything was Grey or black for me, no colors at all. I wasn’t happy, i rarely even laughed and in that times this negative thinking pattern happend really often. Now it’s nothing more than a 'sometimes' thing. I always try to quickly get back to positive thinking and not to get back to this abyss of sadness. After all, now i really do have something to be grateful for. I’ve changed myself a bit already and I’ve made some important decisions. I left this toxic relationship and met someone new. And now i have a loving fiance. Sooo, apparently life changes if you really want it to :)
Yes, and that hurts. But trust me, we always have. It’s just a perspective thing. Start with the house you live. Forget about the things you may dont like on it. Focus on what matters: you have a ceiling above your head, a place to go back when you need. Then go for the things you ate, or that are there for you to eat if you want to. The food that keeps you alive. The air you’re breathing. The people you care about. And if it never looks enough, then open your eyes to a really sad fact: there are so many in the world that could kill or die just for the opportunity to have some of the comforts you take for granted. If it’s too hard, it’s ok. Sometimes it actually is. Don’t judge or blame yourself. Just do not give up on being grateful for whatever you can and are comfortable with.