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Practicing Gratitude for Lasting Peace and Satisfaction
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Can a simple shift in your mindset unlock a life of fulfillment and peace? Join us in this episode of "In Peace," where we explore the transformative power of gratitude. You will gain valuable insights into what it truly means to be grateful—not just as an emotion, but as a state of being that fosters inner peace and satisfaction.
We'll discuss practical ways to incorporate gratitude into your daily routine, turning it into a habit that grows stronger over time. From starting a gratitude jar to jotting down daily blessings, this episode is packed with actionable steps to help you cultivate a grateful mindset. You'll learn how this simple yet powerful practice can bring a sense of blessing, fulfillment, and abundance. As we conclude, we invite you to embark on your gratitude journey and reconnect with us in two weeks to witness the positive changes it brings to your life.
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Hello, peace be upon you wherever you are on this planet. Welcome to In Peace, where we come every week to reflect, to heal and to grow. In today's episode, which I'm recording in the middle of the two weeks because I know I won't be able to record for next week, so I really wanted to make it as meaningful, as impactful as I can, and it is for a topic that is really very close to my heart, very close to my heart, and it is very important in feeding our inner peace and your sense of peace. If you really put it into practice in your daily life, if you already don't, it'll make a huge difference and you will notice it with no time really. So and this is I'm sure you're asking okay, what is it gonna be about? So the topic of today's episode is going to be all about gratitude. What's gratitude? It's all about how to put it into practice. How is it a state or is it a mood? And to me, really, gratitude yeah, it might be considered by many as an emotion, which I believe it can be, or that's part of it, but I also think that gratitude can be a state of being that really puts us in a state of inner peace or or plays a key role in being in peace.
Speaker 1:So what does it mean to be grateful? To be grateful is to feel thankful for the blessings that you have, for being grateful for life, for being grateful and thankful for the moment that you live. So this is what gratitude is all about is having the focus, the awareness of the things that really adds value into your life and really helps you in this journey, have an awareness of them, paying them appreciation and thankfulness. So it's exactly the opposite of taking things or events or people for granted. It's always having the focus of paying thankfulness to the good things in our life, in our life. And gratitude is really important because it opens our mind and our heart to be able to welcome even more goodness into our life. It opens our mind and our heart to limitless opportunities, to limitless potential, even in the darkest, darkest times.
Speaker 1:But the opposite of gratitude, the opposite of being grateful, is being dissatisfied. Dissatisfaction is exactly the opposite of gratitude, and what dissatisfaction means is that, instead of focusing on the good things or focusing on things or the dark things or dark events in life and see the world through that lens and forget all the other things and events and people that one can really be grateful for. And when somebody has this state of mind of being satisfied, most of the time it really impacts the whole experience of their life, making it a really not pleasant experience. And, instead of having opportunities and limitless potential, things really shut down and opportunities closes. Things really shut down and opportunities closes and really this state of being or this dissatisfied attitude makes it a difficult life experience for anybody who chooses that path.
Speaker 1:So I'm here today to encourage you all and remind myself to always, always, choose gratitude, always be grateful. And again, I repeat, even in the darkest times, you can be grateful. You can keep up with the state of being, with this emotion of feeling grateful, having things, and bring your focus and bring your awareness to the good things that you have. Despite the fact that maybe you went through this hardship, or there are not very good things that you're going through, you can still choose to focus on the good things and pay them gratitude, be thankful. Choose to focus on the good things and pay them gratitude, be thankful, and in that way, you actually are helping yourself to minimize the impact of the other unpleasant events or things that you might be going through at the moment or went through before. So it really helps us to move forward in life quicker after going through dark times. So, really, gratitude is a blessing by itself and it really is a way of living that helps us make the most of every single moment in our lives and instead of wasting our lives with regrets, with endless pain, or with keeping difficult emotions of despair, of anger and being focused on that, um no. So gratitude helps us move forward quicker and I don't mean that you don't feel the difficult feelings when you have to feel them when you go through dark times, but I mean it means that you go through them in quicker time and be able to move forward with your life beyond the difficulties of the past, beyond the worrying about the future, by being grateful.
Speaker 1:Of course, it is very, very easy to feel grateful when things are going our way, when things we wish for happen so quickly. And I understand it is a big challenge or can be, if we're not used to it to be grateful in the darkest times and when things that we never wish to happen happen. But it takes training, it takes a patience and then it becomes your new program when you face adversity and it makes life so much more easier during the dark times. So I'm sure you can hear me now. You can hear what I'm talking about. That point makes, all you know, encouraging to put gratitude into our life. How can we be grateful? Is it just you wake up and say, say, oh, I'm grateful and that's it? Or how do you actually put it in a more meaningful way and in a way that actually make your every sense of being, every part of your body, feel this feeling? And you can also. It really grows with time. The more you put it into practice, the more you put it into every single day of your life, it really makes a huge difference. So how can we, how can we put it into practice? That is really a really important thing to understand and to help us put what we learn into action.
Speaker 1:But just before that, I wanted to to remind you of a study that was done by an Australian author called Bronnie Ware, who actually wrote a book about. It is that she called the five regrets of the dying and, to sum these up, so she worked with people and she cared for people who were, who didn't have long to go in life, and and what she found in common between all these human beings about the regrets that they had in their life, where the first one was, you know, working too hard without giving themselves the right time just to be sometimes and have a break and enjoy the moment, because you, they were too worried about financials and things. So this was a big regret that many had, and, again, this can be because of lack of gratitude and worrying about the future. This can be a result of that, and that really limits the experience of life. The other thing that was common between all these people was they, you know, not having the courage to express their gratitude and express their feelings to other people, and again, this is part of gratitude.
Speaker 1:How often do you express gratitude to people who you love or people who are part of your life and really their existence in your life makes your life much better and more meaningful and much more easier? How often they express gratitude to them? Um, so again, these people had this regret that they did not do that enough or they did not do it at all. Um, so, yeah, why wait? We surely do not need to wait until our last moments of our lives, and that is why it is so, so very important to express gratitude, express gratitude to those who you love, express gratitude to the things that you have and the blessings, and have that focus all the time. And the more you do it, the more it'll become your new automated reaction and your new program and the more your life be become enriched, become fulfilled, become full of even more blessings.
Speaker 1:So, going back to how can we be grateful, how do we put it into action? And my big advice is to start your day with gratitude and end your day with gratitude. I know sometimes you can be too sleepy, you might not be able to do that, but again, that is a small challenge to to start from today, and even if you don't want to write things down, you can think about one good thing that happened in your day and you're very grateful for. And in this case, when you're sleeping, you feel in a sense of peace, in a sense of satisfaction, because your mind, the last thing you focused on, was a good thing that you really or good event or whatever. That is what your mind was focused on and it means a, they said, you can have a good quality sleep. Again.
Speaker 1:It'll affect the impact of the start of your next day, but really crucial is to start your day with writing the blessings, with counting your blessings and, to be honest, whatever you count, blessings cannot be counted. There are countless and countless of blessings that you have but you don't pay attention to, or sometimes the attitude of taking for granted. Taking these things for granted can blind someone of seeing how these are actually truly of things. So start with gratitude and when you wake up, have like a gratitude jota, very handy, very easy to access, and straight away write the things that you are grateful for. So pay gratitude to the things that you have.
Speaker 1:Um, and most of most of the time, people think things of just material things, which is cool. There are material things that are really important in our life having a shelter, a having water, having all the nice things in our life that we can rely on, having transport, make life so much easier. So count all these things, but also remember to count the non-material things which can be more important, like your health, the ability to control your thoughts, to change the negative thoughts to better thoughts, the ability to breathe. All the non-material, non-physical things. Remember to count them in because, as I said, they can be as more important than the physical things, for sure, because they control the whole experience of your life. A, spiritual beliefs you have, a, the whole spiritual experience, the, the growth all these things count. The men, um, you're grateful for them.
Speaker 1:Also count the surroundings. What are in your surroundings you're you're grateful for? Grateful for the sky, grateful for beautiful nature, for the trees. Write all these things down. Then also, the people in your life who are you grateful for? Someone who really makes life easy for you, someone who you can talk to when things aren't as easy, um, people in your family, friends, colleagues. Write all these people down, pay them gratitude and write their names so more good people come into your experience in life.
Speaker 1:Also, what kind of events you're grateful for that happened and really changed, was transformational events. Pay gratitude to these things. And one last thing I want to remind you to be grateful for and this can be one that is not the easiest to be grateful for but when you get to that stage that you become game changer and it really helps you move forward and change the way that you look at anything in your life, you can always see the positive and the dark times, the dark times that highlighted, that highlighted your life, and remember where you were at some point and how you thought at that point that this was. Maybe this is how you thought about that time, this was the worst thing that was happening. But again, remember to squeeze the lessons. Remember how you are today and the person you are today. And it wouldn't be you today without these events, without these dark times, without these tests, without these tribulations.
Speaker 1:So pay gratitude to the dark times of your life, because they shaped who you are. You learned a lot of lessons through these times. You they walk you up. Really, obviously you can. You can do do your own reflections through these times before getting into that stage, because I understand that everybody thinks about these times as something to be grateful for. So it needs a lot of inner work, a lot of self-reflections, a lot of writing about these things, a lot of self-reflections, a lot of writing about these things and the lessons and how you were and how you are today and seeing it all after writing it. That can help you see why you should be grateful for these things. And again, this is a personal suggestion, a suggestion from myself, because when we pay these events gratitude, we grow quicker and also that means that we invested these times in growing, invested these times by squeezing the lessons, by squeezing what they wanted us to pay attention to, and that's that what really means great paying gratitude to the dark times as well and, as I said, it is not the easiest one to pay gratitude for, but, honestly, when you arrive to that stage, it really creates a wonderful sense of peace that you never really experienced before, getting into that gratefulness for the hardest times in life. So it is all to fulfill and to increase our inner peace, and surely it all needs work. It all needs this deep inner work, needs effort, it needs time, um, but it's all all worth.
Speaker 1:It wanted to share in this episode talked about gratitude.
Speaker 1:Why is it important and what is the opposite of gratitude and how is that really a must to avoid and instead to always flourish and grow a sense, emotions and state of being of gratitude, to always feel in peace and then to avoid the regrets.
Speaker 1:And then how we can put gratitude into practice through adding it into our daily routine in the morning, before we go to sleep, and notice the the beautiful change in your life, the beautiful sense of peace that you will develop through time after doing this and you can do it in a fun way you can do a gratitude jar if writing is not your um favorite thing, but just jutting it in bullet points in a gratitude jar, then reading it over again.
Speaker 1:It really creates a, a really sense of blessing in your life, sense of a, your life sense of fulfillment and abundance the more you are grateful. So I hope this was beneficial for all of you and I know I'm not going to connect with you until a couple of weeks, but in the meantime I wish you all a goodness, all peace and and I hope in two weeks you'll be started your gratitude routine and it started to be a part of your life and you already noticed the change by the time. I connect with you all again and so wishing you all wellness and I pay you all lots of gratitude. I'm so grateful for you all to be part of this journey, salamat.
