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The Magic of Gratitude
Here's
another idea to help improve your sleep, as well as your overall
feeling of wellbeing:
cultivate an attitude of gratitude.
Sound
hokey? Well, maybe it is, but it does work if you give it a try with an
open
mind.
No matter
what your station in life or the state of your health, you probably spend your time in three different modes
or states.
The first
is a victim mode. The old "why is this happening to me", "there seems to be nothing I can do about it" mode.
This is a very negative place to be.
Second is
what Lynn Grabhorn, author of "Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting", calls
"flat
lining". In this state, you're neither up nor down. You don't have a
lot of positive energy, but
you're not feeling so bad either. This is the state that most people are in most of the time.
The third
state is a very positive, up mode, when you feel full of positive
energy.
You feel
expansive and happy with the world. You also have more confidence.
When you
suffer from any kind of chronic problem, whether it's health related, stress related, relationship problems,
you name it -- you tend to
live in the first two negative modes. In fact, you may spend a lot of
your time in victim mode.
Victim mode
is no fun. However, you may know someone who actually revels in their problems or poor health. They
love to talk about all the bad things that happen to them. They will suck the
energy right out of you if you are sympathetic enough (or dumb enough) to listen for
any length of time.
You
yourself may be in victim mode for much of the time. I certainly was for awhile, when I was battling a
debilitating case of asthma. I didn't realize at the time what an insidious impact asthma was having on
my health, my confidence, even on my relationships and performance at
work.
Well, I
finally woke up and smelled the coffee. I realized that staying in victim mode was only making things
worse. It wasn't congruent with the type of person I really am.
As a
visitor to this website who is taking the time to read this article, I
know it's not the type of person you are, either.
One of the
key things I did to snap out of my negativity was to foster an attitude
of
gratitude. I started looking outside of myself and counting my
blessings, both large and
small.
I gave
thanks for my family and friends. I gave thanks for my house. I gave
thanks fo my clients and all the people I reach through my daily email
tips. I gave thanks
for the
fact that, aside from asthma, I actually was a very healthy person. And
so on.
After
giving thanks for awhile, I started to feel -- really feel --
appreciation and gratitude.
The feeling
of appreciation is probably the most profound you can have. It's
actually a lot like love.
You vibrate on a higher level. You feel more in harmony with the world.
You
get a real boost to your energy, and you become less self-centered and
withdrawn. You smile and
laugh more easily, because you are more relaxed.
Of course,
saying thanks for the positive stuff is pretty easy. But you have to be
thankful
for the negative stuff as well.
For
example, I tried to analyze what, if anything, I could feel gratitude
for about having asthma.
This was
difficult at first, but I began to realize that asthma had made me a much more compassionate person. It also
made me realize that I had a challenge in front of me: to get healthy again!
And we operate best when we are challenged, particularly when we task ourselves with a worthwhile
goal.
When I
realized this, I decided that one of my primary goals in life would be to break out of the physical and
psychological prison I was in because of asthma.
One of the
things I did (and still do) on a daily basis was to review the people and things I was grateful for, every
night before I went to bed. This got me into a
very
positive and relaxed state of mind. It also cancelled out the negative
energy I
may have
felt during the day due to stress at work, asthma symptoms, and so
forth.
Now, doing
this is no panacea for all of your problems, stresses, health
conditions, or whatever ails you. I share it with you because doing this regularly helped me sleep better
and enjoy more energy during the day. And I began to experience much
less stress and felt myself becoming calmer and more focused. I feel pretty confident that you will
experience the same benefits.
I encourage
you to give it a try.
I'll leave
you with a quote about the power of gratitude:
"The
grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to
become the best; it takes
the form of character of the best, and will receive the best." (Wallace
D. Wattles)
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