Be Grateful Always
Choosing to be grateful determines how you're going to live your life.
Research shows that people who are grateful tend to show higher levels of well-being and happiness (in other words, they feel better about themselves and their lives), and improved mental health. They may even sleep better!
Expressing gratitude to those who have given us something, whether that is out of the goodness of their hearts or in the line of duty, also helps them to feel good, and improves their self-esteem.
Gratitude has been shown to improve social ties and promotes more social behaviour. It makes other people want to show gratitude too, a phenomenon known as ‘upstream reciprocity’. Grateful people tend to want to repay favours, and not just to the person who did them the favour but to other people as well.
So feeling and expressing gratitude helps you and those around you to feel good, and that tends to result in the good feelings being spread even further.
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Showing gratitude to all those around us is a great ability to posess Praxides.
Not only can it lift others days, it can also have a fantastic effect on how we feel about ourselves as well.
I am truly grateful for all that I have, and maybe I should express my gratification with those around me a bit more than I currently do.
Great post and food for thought my friend.
Thank you so much Nick for your thoughts. Yes I agree with you, it will have a fantastic effect on us while lifting up the other person.
Have a blessed day
Demonstrating gratitude is a powerful tool! We often build rapports that began from a simple act of kindness. Gratitude has the potential of being contagious.
Canty
Hi Canty, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. I wished everyone of us could express our gratitude to one another to make this world a better place to live. Have a blessed week,
This is such a powerful message
and if there is anything anybody can
do to uplift themselves and mankind,
is the expression of gratitude.
If anybody does not know how to pray,
a simple, "thank you" will have a more
impact than a whole hour or so prayers
read in any book.
Incidentally, I'd like to give you, Praxide
my wholeheartedly and sincerely and
all out "thank you" for being a part of
my connection here and my journey in
other aspects of my being.
The love of God enfolds you always.
Elizabeth
Thank you so much my dear friend for such a touching message. I'm so blessed also for being part of your network. I can see you're such an incredible person who always inspire us here in this great community. Wished you more success not only in this journey but in everything that you put your hands into. Much blessings
Oh, my dear, Praxide,
You are such a kind soul and this
is just so heartwarming and I am
really getting teary-eyed now.
Thank you and I mean thank you
ever so much for such a wholesome
and sincere expression of caring
and loving.
I do greatly appreciate you, a lot.
God be with you always in all ways.
Elizabeth
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I am grateful every day! For all the lessons learned, taught, accepted and changed. I believe by showing gratitude the universe pays back :) don't ask me how do I put this in words, but I do, because I really see how being grateful changes life and circumstances! Cheers to this article! :)
Thanks a lot Julijana for sharing your thoughts, much appreciated.
Have a blessed week.