How often are you focussed on grattitude?

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hypochondriac

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Hypochondriacs have been made exempt from grattitude by God. whew.....
But ciriusly, I need to be more grateful more often.
I was reading a story about a guy whose sister became a quadraplegic after a car accident. She had a severely damaged bowel so had a colostemy bag. The brother said he just appreciates being able to go to the toilet. how easy to take the little things for granted.
 

Lord Im grateful for :
-looking so handsome for my age
-living in the best country in the world
-not having to experience pregnancy
-solving a difficult sudoku puzzle this morning
-toffee honeycomb yohurt being on special this morning
-finding a good park at the shopping centre today
-being able to pay my land rates this year
 
hypochondriac said:
Lord Im grateful for :
-looking so handsome for my age
-living in the best country in the world
-not having to experience pregnancy
-solving a difficult sudoku puzzle this morning
-toffee honeycomb yohurt being on special this morning
-finding a good park at the shopping centre today
-being able to pay my land rates this year
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You forgot modesty & looking so happy in your photo.

🤣
 

today im grateful for :
a no pain hip bursa injection
minimal leg pain
some good insights from the book im reading
blackout only lasting one hour
waking up early as usual
feeling pretty good overall
 
A few weeks ago, I was doing some grocery shopping
Very focused
Git in
Git out
Rounded the corner of an aisle
Almost ran into a youngish lad being pushed in his chair
An obvious quadriplegic
Thing is, he had this smile
A very genuine, beaming smile
I considered it one of gratitude...gratitude for getting out...from where ever

It settled me down

Of a sudden, I wasn't so intent on getting in and out

Just grateful for......being
 
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In all seriousness..

I am grateful to be alive...to be realtively healthy... and I'm always conscious of others who have much more diffuclties than me, so although I don't always succeed, and I would love some things to be better, I try to grateful to have all that I have in the way of health, and my home and family!!
 
hollydolly said:
In all seriousness..

I am grateful to be alive...to be realtively healthy... and I'm always conscious of others who have much more diffuclties than me, so although I don't always succeed, and I would love some things to be better, I try to grateful to have all that I have in the way of health, and my home and family!!
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comparing this thread to the one on looking forward to something. I suspect grattitude is much more important to contentment.
 
I'm grateful that our social security system allowed me to leave a violent husband and live alone. Having been a stay-at-home wife and mother, I wouldn't have been able to earn enough to support myself. I'd have been living on the streets.
 
Rosemarie said:
I'm grateful that our social security system allowed me to leave a violent husband and live alone. Having been a stay-at-home wife and mother, I wouldn't have been able to earn enough to support myself. I'd have been living on the streets.
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I must be missing something here. What has SSI aka Social Security INSURANCE have to do with welfare?
My family on all sides has always worked and paid into this system since it began. Some have died without collecting back one dollar.
While millions who never paid a dime into it steal funds from it [ including the leaders ]. Do you also consider auto or health insurance welfare too?
 
In the Naranon meetings I attend, Gratitude Lists are strongly encouraged. It's so easy to lose sight of the good things in our lives when we're struggling with the addiction of our loved one and all the attendant issues.

My Gratitude List was a lot different when I first started out in Naranon, than it ultimately became. Initially it was a list very focused on my son...grateful he was still alive, that he hadn't OD'd, that he wasn't using as heavily, or that he was still in his right mind if he WAS using.

Over time, my Gratitude List focused on me, which for the purposes of a 12 step program is most appropriate. The more I focused on what I was grateful for, the more I realized that how many good things were in my life in spite of my son's addiction, which can so easily be an all-consuming issue overshadowing everything else in life, which is a very common problem with the loved ones of addicts.

So today, while I continue to be grateful, every single day, for my son's sobriety, I am also grateful for an abundance of other things....the unconditional love and support and protectiveness of my wonderful fiancé, the close and loving relationships I have with each of my children and grandchildren in spite of distance and other barriers (like addiction) that could so easily corrupt the relationships, and my continued good health which gives me the gift of being able to engage in the things in my life that I love to do...dance,and hike, and zip line, and ride the harley and paddle board and kayak and a myriad of other active hobbies.

The addiction of my son was wretched and awful and horrible and I thought I would lose him so many times, thought I HAD lost him several times, but it gave me a far greater appreciation for life than I would have had under other, more normal circumstances.

...........and I ran my mouth again...sorry. This was supposed to be a simple response and here i went and waxed poetic about stuff. Again. <sigh>
 
Ronni said:
In the Naranon meetings I attend, Gratitude Lists are strongly encouraged. It's so easy to lose sight of the good things in our lives when we're struggling with the addiction of our loved one and all the attendant issues.

My Gratitude List was a lot different when I first started out in Naranon, than it ultimately became. Initially it was a list very focused on my son...grateful he was still alive, that he hadn't OD'd, that he wasn't using as heavily, or that he was still in his right mind if he WAS using.

Over time, my Gratitude List focused on me, which for the purposes of a 12 step program is most appropriate. The more I focused on what I was grateful for, the more I realized that how many good things were in my life in spite of my son's addiction, which can so easily be an all-consuming issue overshadowing everything else in life, which is a very common problem with the loved ones of addicts.

So today, while I continue to be grateful, every single day, for my son's sobriety, I am also grateful for an abundance of other things....the unconditional love and support and protectiveness of my wonderful fiancé, the close and loving relationships I have with each of my children and grandchildren in spite of distance and other barriers (like addiction) that could so easily corrupt the relationships, and my continued good health which gives me the gift of being able to engage in the things in my life that I love to do...dance,and hike, and zip line, and ride the harley and paddle board and kayak and a myriad of other active hobbies.

The addiction of my son was wretched and awful and horrible and I thought I would lose him so many times, thought I HAD lost him several times, but it gave me a far greater appreciation for life than I would have had under other, more normal circumstances.

...........and I ran my mouth again...sorry. This was supposed to be a simple response and here i went and waxed poetic about stuff. Again. <sigh>
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I have two addicts in my family, grand daughters which considering 2 out the the 13 maybe not be too bad in todays society it still hurts the family. One will not be out of prison till she is middle aged for possession of a firearm which was unloaded. She pointed at another drug addict but still big felony. The other got addicted to pain meds and progressed to street drugs.
I'm with you on the dance and all other except the ZIP LINE! I'm not that brave or agile anymore.
 
I don't really focus on it, but as mentioned if I see someone with severe physical or mental disabilities, especially a child, I am always thankful that I have not had to suffer like that in my lifetime. When I look around at mother nature, I'm thankful to be alive and have my eyes to soak it in. I'm thankful for something every single day it seems, for my health, my dear husband and my furbabies. 💜
 
SeaBreeze said:
I don't really focus on it, but as mentioned if I see someone with severe physical or mental disabilities, especially a child, I am always thankful that I have not had to suffer like that in my lifetime. When I look around at mother nature, I'm thankful to be alive and have my eyes to soak it in. I'm thankful for something every single day it seems, for my health, my dear husband and my furbabies. 💜
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I think of this very often when I'm feeling bad or sorry for myself, I do know what your saying Seab.
 
My father was an absolute specialist at gratitude. What I noticed as a result though, was that his life became magically blessed. Even problems occurred in his life, help would arrive from somewhere. Things would get done somehow. There was a kind of magical aura about him,. Im biased of course because he was my father.
 
Gratitude works . Is what I want to say.
my father was in an aged care facility for the last 2 years of his life. my brother and sister in law would invite him to their house once a week for a meal. He loved that outing and the cooked meal too.He was abundantly grateful and always praised my SIL for her cooking. Praise worked. he got invited often. 😂😂
 

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