Everywhere we look, people are talking about practising gratitude.
But how does one actually do it? Especially, when a lot of us haven’t stepped out in over a year now, when we are at an all-time low, when we feel like we have nothing left to be grateful for!
Waking up with a smile and being grateful for the honour of getting one more day to live? That seems so out there! I mean even before getting out of bed, our mental to-do lists have begun. That hamster wheel has started turning, what IS there to feel grateful about then... this is what we do day in and day out, every single day - yeah?!
What’s new?
Today, I am going to attempt to teach us all how to actually FEEL grateful and express it. In other terms - Practice Gratitude.
As you wake up, wiggle your fingers and toes, are you able to do so? Well, someone somewhere feels pain when they try to do this exact thing. Breathe out, “Phew! Your joints are A-ok!” - there, you have it. You FELT your fingers and toes move AND you EXPRESSED relief that they work! TADA!
THAT is gratitude!
Start small. Tiny things within yourselves. One thing at a time.
Today, it was fingers and toes. Tomorrow, maybe you can see if your knees and elbows work as well!?
So, you’ll have two things you are grateful for then... yeah?
Once you are feeling content about yourself, try to find small things AROUND you to be grateful for. For example, warm rugs to step on, as you get out of your bed or cool tiles to walk on if you are south of the equator?
And so on, you get the idea...
As a parting note this week, I am grateful that I have a phone, on which I can type up my notes, as and when I get ideas, that my poor little thumb isn’t complaining about all this typing and that SO MANY sets of eyes have read this and are hopefully smiling too. Knock on wood!!
🙏🏽🙏🏽
Sweta Shah Sakhpara is a pranic energy therapist and a pranic psychotherapist. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation to kids, adults and families. When she is not doing any of the above, she actively practices being a mindful parent to two kids.
Having learned and practiced pranic healing for ~fifteen years, Sweta has been blessed with the trust of many clients for ailments as simple as a headache to complex ones like Tourette’s syndrome, from depression and anxiety to finding ways to embrace the idea of a new normal with a child being diagnosed on the spectrum. You could read more about her HERE.
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