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How could a sense of gratitude shift my perspective in this moment? - Grateful.org
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  1. O. Christina36171
    O.Christina
    3 years ago

    Gratitude changes all of what is perceived. In this moment, I am with a dear friend and later I will meet my father who is 93 years of age and has found another partner after my mother died 2 years ago. Me and my sisters are happy with him and grateful that they have met and feel for each other, that they enjoy each others company and as well their individual needs when being on their own again also. It makes me happy to see him happy, and it calms me, as I know I would worry much more otherwise about him. Gratefulness warms my heart and theirs also. It does not lessen my love for my mother while in the mean time, it enriches the moment with the love given.

  2. M
    Maria
    3 years ago

    being grateful right now is allowing me to take a pause in the day and really reflect on everything i have accomplished so far. sometimes i get so wrapped up in my own mind and work that i forget how far i have come!

    1. con71475@yahoo.com
      Carol
      3 years ago

      I relate!

  3. Joan 56472
    Joan
    3 years ago

    Gratitude in this moment helps me slow down and celebrate a deep inhalation and exhalation, the power and the miracle of the breath, and the awareness that the Me inside me is observing and celebrating my breath.

  4. Bleach58475
    Hot Sauce
    3 years ago

    Being grateful right now is helping me to see that everything I am experiencing in each moment is an opportunity to grow in knowledge and wisdom.

  5. M
    MemoPC
    3 years ago

    I didn’t get the coffee gene and seem to be
    sensitive to too much caffeine in my system so I get to be grateful coffee doesn’t stain my teeth 😂.
    Seriously gratitude always helps me see
    that things could be worse.
    Whatever I am struggling with shifting my attention to gratitude always gives me a boost. It doesn’t change the details but it reinvents my mind.

    1. con71475@yahoo.com
      Carol
      3 years ago

      Love it…”Whatever I am struggling with shifting my attention to gratitude always gives me a boost. It doesn’t change the details but it reinvents my mind.”

  6. Don Jones69078
    Don Jones
    3 years ago

    It fuels an awakening. What, after all, is Awakening, Enlightenment, Realisation? Awakening from what? Enlightenment as to what? Realisation of what?It is waking up from all my dreams and imaginings and preconceptions, becoming enlightened as to the given facts, realising what I clearly am in my first-hand experience right now. It is being perfectly honest to myself about myself, at last. It is having the courage and effrontery, even the idiocy – to go by what I see, instead of by what I am told. It is questioning all mental habits and conventional assumptions, however common-sensible or sanctified. It is total open-mindedness, transparency, simplicity, and taking nothing for granted. In one word, it is discovery.What is to be discovered is my own nature. Who am I? Only I am in a position to find out, because everyone else is elsewhere, off-centre. Only I can investigate what it is to be me.

  7. Sinda64308
    Sinda
    3 years ago

    If I can help my mind just with the right coping skills, I might be as happy then, as I am now

  8. Kylee98717
    Kylee
    3 years ago

    I have a note on my desk that says “I HAVE to” which is crossed out and it says “I GET to” I always seem to be overwhelmed with the amount of things on my to do list each day. But really its simple. I get to go to work, I get to do the dishes, I get to go grocery shopping, I get to pay my bills etc. That mindset has changed my view immensely.

    1. Michele17440
      Michele
      3 years ago

      Thanks for this awesome reminder 😊

  9. Chester
    Chester
    3 years ago

    On a tight schedule today with family vacation activities and tempting to focus on the limited time, schedule and concerns with getting off schedule – however, so much to be grateful for in this moment – in a warm room, surrounded by family in the mountains – will work to retain this perspective (while still trying to stay on schedule!).

  10. Samuel Brandt81139
    Samuel
    3 years ago

    I suffer from chronic A-fib. It gets a little more debilitating as the days pass. Waiting for some needed surgery gets a little harder as the days pass. But I have found that a sense of gratitude for the fact that my condition COULD BE so much worse (life-threatening instead of simply debilitating)
    allows me to maintain a better attitude and to better cope with the daily trials of living with it than when I slip into a “poor me, why me?” attitude. That only serves to magnify the problem, not to deal with it. Gratitude is indeed a wonderful salve for Life’s sorest hurts and trials…

  11. Charlie T22956
    Charlie T
    3 years ago

    Practicing gratitude is my attempt to have more balance in my perception. My brain automatically goes to struggle, suffering, and conflict. When I really do this practice, I sometimes feel like I’m filling my heart with appreciation, beauty, and love. I’m glad to see other people here have so much gratitude for coffee. I have felt a little silly for my love of coffee, but I see I’m not alone. I have meditated on it and thought of every step, every person, every process that it went through to get to me. There’s so many people and phenomena to be grateful for.

  12. Patricia14035
    Patricia
    3 years ago

    In this very moment? I’m grateful for heat in our northwoods home. Yes, winter is long and I’m looking out at snow still piled everywhere. I am weary of it, but grateful that I have shelter, and live with a man I love in a place where my heart is at home.

  13. alara87350
    alara
    3 years ago

    I am lost in words here. Thankfulness is me looking out and appreciating. Gratefulness is given to me – a gift. It speaks to my heart and floods my being.

  14. Holly in Ohio90819
    Holly in Ohio
    3 years ago

    I love the morning when a new day is before me. I hope to make the most of this day.

  15. con71475@yahoo.com
    Carol
    3 years ago

    I live with a sense of gratitude but it never hurts to pause and voice it. It’s a good way to start each day.

  16. Howie Geib97277
    Howie Geib
    3 years ago

    At this point gratitude is fairly habitual. I suppose there is a shift in my perception of Source when I am more consciously grateful. Without thinking about it I consider myself ‘lucky’ or ‘fortunate’. When in fact it is a matter of my being receptive to being open and available to be used as a conduit. I am not really sure I have ever considered that I have a single purpose here, on the planet I mean. And yet, that may be it: to be useful. And I have to get out of the way for that to even be remotely possible, and that is a shift in perspective. Gratitude is a platform for the servant disposition required to do that.

  17. Laura75158
    Laura
    3 years ago

    Gratitude shifts me into a sense of fullness in the moment. It’s the difference, for example, between noticing the buds on trees to seeing each tightly wrapped bud ready to burst with the thrum of new life.

  18. devy39652
    devy
    3 years ago

    A sense of gratitude negates any negative thoughts that cross my mind and helps me live in the present, appreciate all that I have or experiencing thus bringing feelings of acceptance and contentment to me.

  19. Maurice Frank32783
    Maurice Frank
    3 years ago

    A sense of gratitude can help me question and re-interpret my reactions to this moment.

  20. c
    carol
    3 years ago

    acceptance — gratitude for this human capacity of acceptance; I’m hoping will enable me to have compassion for my failings and then gratitude for the human capacity to advance beyond them– use the failing as a stepping stone to greater wholeness– see what happens

  21. sunnypatti48317
    sunnypatti48317
    3 years ago

    My perspective in this moment is good. Really good! We had a terrible storm last night with tornado warnings. Same thing happened the night before, but last night was very scary. I don’t usually get scared, but I was. I prayed for our safety, and for the safety of our community.

    I’m incredibly grateful to be safe this morning. I’m grateful everything looks normal outside, even if the back is a bit flooded. I hope all of my town is okay, too.

    1. Michele17440
      Michele
      3 years ago

      Glad you’re okay!

    2. Laura75158
      Laura
      3 years ago

      Glad you’re OK, sunnypatti.

  22. Mary Pat10798
    Mary Pat
    3 years ago

    My insomnia is active at the moment, so to be grateful for this is difficult. I am grateful that I am working on this, and am now going back to bed-and for that I am grateful!

  23. EP29020
    EJP
    3 years ago

    A sense of gratitude would remind me of all that I am and all that I have, creating a quiet peace in this given moment.

  24. kevinthequaker123
    Kevin
    3 years ago

    I try and make it a point throughout my day to pause, in the tiniest of moments, to remind myself to be grateful for whatever I might be experiencing at that point in time. And frequently, it’s like opening a window to fresh air, or walking out of a self-imposed mental fog into the sunshine, where the landscape of my imagination changes to something new and far reaching, with possibilities of thought and action previously unknown.

  25. Michele17440
    Michele
    3 years ago

    Right now I am very tired so my gratitude is for whomever manufactured my coffee.

    1. kevinthequaker123
      Kevin
      3 years ago

      Yes-Yes, Michele! Thanks for reminding me to go turn my coffee pot on to… “magic!”)

  26. Christine25199
    Christine
    3 years ago

    Hope gives me perspective. I am a hopeful person. So when I feel grateful for the hope I feel, gratitude gives me a sense of perspective.

    A complicated sentence and answer.😂

  27. Antoinette88615
    Antoinette
    3 years ago

    This question is assuming I don’t already have a sense of gratitude- gratitude is present in me right now and it’s helping me see the Beaty of life.

  28. Carla N84768
    Carla
    3 years ago

    Cultivating a grateful heart happened years ago. I know All is Gift, All is Grace. And as Julian of Norwich said “All shall be well…”

  29. Iamme35664
    Iamme
    3 years ago

    Gratitude has taken up an almost permanent residence within me, so no shift required right now. It has to take something very challenging and stressful to push gratitude out of sight for a while.


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