Reconnect your
soul or spirit to gratitude. If you are grateful to the Creator for what you
have, you may look at the behavior of another individual with more tolerance, or
even with a totally different perspective.
Blessings in life,
such as the gift of life, are generally overlooked or even taken for granted.
For example, if someone takes advantage of you, do not become angry
immediately; instead, be grateful that you are the victim instead of being the
person who victimizes others.
Gratitude enables
you to develop the mindset for a positive outlook toward your soul. Smile more
often. Keep complaints about people, things, and life in general only to yourself—unless
voicing them will help bring about positive changes in others or in society.
Gratitude helps
you see the good in others, letting you give them the benefit of the doubt. Try
to remember that all people are created in the image of God. Focus on the individual
as a person, rather than on the behavior or belief of that individual, which
may not be appealing or pleasing to you.
Always be grateful
that you have been given the opportunity to become either a teacher or a
student in whatever circumstance you may find yourself in, and turn it into a
miracle of life.
An illustration
At the end of 2007, John
Kralik, an attorney who owned a law firm, experienced debts and disasters
in both his life and career.
One day, after a walk in the mountains, Kralik became
enlightened: as his 2008 New Year’s resolution, he decided to write a thank-you note a day for the rest of the year to everyone he knew.
Kralik’s 2008
“gratitude project” had changed his life completely. Instead of his feeling of
discontent regarding his lack, and his envy of those who had what he did not
have, he had learned to be grateful for
his law firm, his practice, his friends, and his family, despite the many
disasters and drawbacks he had previously experienced. Kralik’s gratitude began
to change every aspect of his life. His relationships with his family, his
friends, and his staff improved significantly; his law firm avoided bankruptcy,
and turned around completely.
Gratitude is something that you get more only by giving it
away more. Expression of gratitude generates happiness that overcomes the
unhappy feelings of lack.
Are you grateful
for what you have, and not getting what you rightly deserve? Even being diagnosed with myasthenia gravis may be a life lesson for you -- you can always learn something from your disease.
Stephen Lau
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by Stephen Lau
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