We have just passed through the season of Thanksgiving. The power of praise and thanksgiving as an antibody to the toxic atmosphere in which we sometimes exist cannot be over-emphasized. It may sound simplistic, but when you are feeling down and despairing, one effective anti-dote is to reflect on the many things for which you are thankful. Each thanksgiving that is named is a reminder that you are of value and worth. To utter those reasons for thanksgiving aloud, allows you to hear them and it gives them an objective reality. To tell them to someone else increases their power because you are now connected with community and drawn out of the isolation that often accompanies despair.
Sometimes, when you are feeling down, it is hard to get started naming your blessings. It may be helpful to develop a pattern to trigger your recollection. Not all of these will be a source of gratitude for everyone, but sometimes when you examine them more closely, you can still find reasons for gratitude.
Perhaps you might want to begin with focusing on relationships. What relationships are you grateful for. What is it about that relationship that triggers gratitude in you. Even relationships that are now missing or failed often have contributed things of value to your life for which, upon deeper examination, you can still say thank you.
Next, you might want to identify aspects of your body that you are grateful for. It is so easy to assume qualities of our body and not identify them as reasons to be thankful. Yet remove them from your body and you recognize how they have contributed to your life. You may also be grateful for your overall health or for recovering from a sickness or healing from an injury. Review each of your five senses and consider which ones provide you experiences for which you are grateful. Think of the power of taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing and how each enriches your life.
Finally, think of recent experiences that you have had that are filled with meaning or pleasure. It may simply have been watching a little child in a restaurant or enjoying a good round of golf. It could be having successfully covered your negative feelings and managed a social evening that left others feeling good.
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