Play The Gratitude Game - A Simple Way To Feel Better Right Now
The Gratitude Game is a richly rewarding game to play
, and it's simple to learn. When you're feeling sad or blue (which we all feel from time to time), simply make a game out of your own gratefulness, finding abundance everywhere and saying thank you for it.
For best results, go beyond the obvious: Beyond your family, your friends, the sun, the moon, the trees, the air on your skin. Here's an example from the last five minutes of my own life:
I pour a cup of coffee and thank the men and women in the coffee fields, the people who roasted the coffee and ground the coffee and the people who made the bags for the coffee. I feel gratitude for the car that drove to the market to buy the coffee. The cow that made the creamer I am now pouring in my coffee. The soldiers who fought and died to make my country one in which I can, as a woman, go to the market with anyone I wish, with any thoughts in my head that I wish - and the freedom to voice those thoughts, if I so choose.
If you are an experienced player of the Gratitude Game, you can turn your thankfulness even on those things that might annoy or irritate you. Again, an example from the last five minutes of my life: The little neighbor boy who keeps ringing my doorbell when I'm on a business call. I say thank you for the business that made the call necessary. Thank you for the garage, where I can go to get away from the noise. Thank you for the ability to be calm and respectful when I talk to my neighbor boy about please ringing the doorbell only one time, and - if no one answers - to try again later. Thank you that he has a nice mother and father who respect me. Thank you for neighbors and friends.
When you can make a game out of it, stretching your sense of gratitude almost to the absurd, it's difficult to continue on being sad.
Sometimes, in order to break yourself out of a blue mood, the best thing to do is simply and however possible to break the cycle of negative, repetitive thoughts - because these do nothing but bring you down and make you focus on all the negative, difficult, trying things in your life.
Sometimes, the best thing you can do is to distract yourself from your own rumination. The more you can manage to focus on positive thoughts and feelings (which the Gratitude Game naturally helps us to do), the more you will attract positive thoughts into your life, and on it will go, creating a beautiful upward cycle, increasing your happiness level, even if just by a little bit. Because when you can increase your happiness level even just a little bit, it's easier to raise it just that much higher. You can play the Gratitude Game again until you feel better and better about your life. And the better you feel, the easier it becomes to amplify those good feelings even more.
There's no limit to the amount of joy and gratitude and happiness you can feel in any given situation, in any given moment, on any given day of the week. Play the Gratitude Game as often as you think of it, and see if you don't start feeling better about your life - right now.
by: Jamie Jefferson
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