'Gratitude'

Gratitude may sounds a simple word but the powerful emotional feelings wanting to give your thanks to somebody for being grateful has hidden scientific and spiritual truths.It’s a feeling of thankfulness and joy we feel in response to something we have received in life as a person, job, money, health and family or from some one in personal as for gifts, help, favours or words of appreciations. The power of gratitude gives you innate happiness and feeling of well being. We may have good family, good job, lots of respect and money but still sometimes feel dissatisfied and purposeless from within.With Gratitude a person feel more positive more happy, because the feeling produces longer lasting positivity hence helping in regaining good health, Improving relationship with others, feeling better in life as a whole and becoming more optimistic towards life. To understand further the improved quality of life helps you to be more focused in life, have faith, piece of mind, more confidence, more power, more inner strength and reducing all the fears from within.The power of gratitude cultivates the resilience and peace. It is about learning to dance with life, it is about satisfaction and expansion of well being. In over all it is important as a person to experience and practice gratitude and teaching the children as well to help inculcate positive habits in them. It may help your children refocusing on what they have instead of what they lack.This mental state will only grow stronger with use and practice of gratitude. So here are some simple tips to help you cultivate a fulfilling and impactful gratitude as a part of everyday.

METHODS TO CULTIVATE GRATITUDE

1. Be grateful to god or nature, the moment you get up, simply by saying thank you or reciting a small prayer.
2. Keep a diary and add at least three things you are thankful to.
3. Do an act of kindness each day.
4. Compliment your friends and family on daily basis.
5. Thank the service providers around you in the society like your domestic helpers, gardeners, guards, drivers, sweepers etc.
6. Appreciate and acknowledge people you love.
7. Make at least two people smile daily.
8. Click images of sweet memories and watch them when you feel low.
9. Practice gratitude at the same time every day.
10. Watch inspiring movies and read inspiring books and quotes.
11. Give small gifts to person/persons you love.
12. Spend quality time, playing or talking with children and elders of the house, family or near by society.
13. Create opportunities for your children to be helpful and cooperative with others.
14. Thank the nature, farmers and transporters when you cook meal.
15. Call your friends or family members you like or dislike.
16. Thank for the friends you have.
17. Help the poor and needy.
18. Thank for the beautiful nature around you.
19. Don’t complain about circumstances.
20. Learn new things more often.
21. See the growth opportunity in your own mistakes.
22. Help others whenever you can.
23. Meditate daily for 40 mins.
24. Focus on your strengths.
25. Don’t think negative.

Benefits of Gratitude

When you are in a state of powerful emotional feeling "gratitude" you can not feel sorry for your self or be depressed in life because the feeling of connecting with others make your life better with health which is one of the main contributing factor to happiness. Research shows that boosting our own sense of gratitude has widespread effects on our lives. Practising gratitude can...

Increase Wisdom- It increases level of patience and more satisfaction in life.Person becomes less materialistic. Person feels more satisfied and coherent.Smile more often.

Decrease Stress- It reduces rumination and increases mental strength. Decreases negative effect from a situation. Lower the anxiety level. Increases self confidence and energy.

Help in Maintaining good health- It keeps your spirits high. Increases good hormones in body and decreases bad hormones. It helps in improving quality of sleep. Also gives you sense of well being.

Reduce Inflammation in body- Sometimes there are sign of cellular inflammation in body as redness, pain, and swelling. Being in gratitude state helps you to reduce low level inflammation.

Help to Train the brain- It helps to rewire the brain and bring more music to life. It shift your attention on positivity and shift the focus on good emotion keeping the brain young and logical.