5 thoughts about gratitude

1. Gratitude is a quality you can cultivate. Having the quality of gratitude in yourself means that even if nothing has changed, even if no bright shiny parcel has been delivered to your door, you can feel grateful for good things in your life.

2. Pausing to consider what you feel grateful for every night or morning can lift your mood, especially if you're grumbling about the world.

3. Expressing gratitude to a partner enhances close relationships.

4. It doesn't really matter what you get for Christmas (if you're into Christmas) in the sense that cultivating the quality of gratitude is a gift you can give yourself. (But I hope you get some nice presents, too.)

5. Is there anything you can do today, probably something you've been putting off, that you'll be grateful to yourself for tomorrow?

Forthcoming Zoom event

In the “Lift your mood with gratitude” hour, on Thursday 18th December, we will do some practices, including a visualisation, that promote gratitude.

The event will also be recorded and everybody who books will get access to a video link and also an audio.

Credit: Page image is by Daniel Andrade