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Daily Question, January 7

How do you nurture your practice of gratefulness when life is difficult?

  • Ed Schulte
    How? By using the gift of mind as it was intended to be used. .“if her/his past were your past, her/his pain your pain, her/his level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace. No, the ego [ego-ism of the present-day personality] doesn’t like to hear this, because it cannot be reactive and righteous anymore, it will lose its strength.” ECKHART TOLLE ( Stillness Speaks …page 56 i...

    How? By using the gift of mind as it was intended to be used.

    .“if her/his past were your past, her/his pain your pain, her/his level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace.

    No, the ego [ego-ism of the present-day personality] doesn’t like to hear this, because it cannot be reactive and righteous anymore, it will lose its strength.”

    ECKHART TOLLE ( Stillness Speaks …page 56 if memory serves me well )

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  • Trish

    Sometimes gratefulness doesn’t come easily & so we need a reminder of its importance….just a gentle nudge. Intellectually we know there is an abundance of goodness at our fingertips & when life gets in the way, pulling us down, we need to seek out the beauty.

  • Patricia

    I breathe, I pray and yesterday I was also grateful for sipping brandy! Yesterday was terrible in our country but I AM grateful for some positive signs and a change of leadership on January 20. May we begin to heal.

  • sunnypatti
    I just do it. It's part of my daily routine, so it happens every morning and throughout the day no matter what. Having a regular mediation and gratitude practice for several years now, I've learned to pause during difficult times, breathe, and then take action if necessary. That simple act of pausing is such a blessing and is one of my greatest life lessons that I don't think would be possible without my practice. So I nurture my practice by practicing my practice. I've seen the results and I li...

    I just do it. It’s part of my daily routine, so it happens every morning and throughout the day no matter what. Having a regular mediation and gratitude practice for several years now, I’ve learned to pause during difficult times, breathe, and then take action if necessary. That simple act of pausing is such a blessing and is one of my greatest life lessons that I don’t think would be possible without my practice. So I nurture my practice by practicing my practice. I’ve seen the results and I like them. There’s no turning back from this path of light 🙂

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  • Cheryle

    I sit absolutely still and silent. Many times something, a telephone call, a book, a friend with a gift, a healing
    something often turns up to assist, bless and guide me on my way. The silence calms the storm.

  • devy
    When a difficult time arises I get to my own little space in the house, focus on the present and the things that I have to be grateful for. Everyday I take time to go for a long walk which gets me away from sitting at the house and ruminating about the terrible things going on in the world and focus on the good. I often go for the walk with my spouse for which helps her with the stress she experiences at work. The only thing that I now need to do during the walk is to focus more on what’s goin...

    When a difficult time arises I get to my own little space in the house, focus on the present and the things that I have to be grateful for. Everyday I take time to go for a long walk which gets me away from sitting at the house and ruminating about the terrible things going on in the world and focus on the good. I often go for the walk with my spouse for which helps her with the stress she experiences at work. The only thing that I now need to do during the walk is to focus more on what’s going on around us, listen to my wife as she talks about her day (which I do) but avoid talking about the frustrations I have about what is going on in regards to the behaviours of others around the world..

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  • Kevin

    Today, after watching what happened in my nation’s capital yesterday, I am heartbroken for my country. If I am feeling grateful for anything at this moment, it’s that I’m relieved that more people were not killed or injured in yesterdays insurrection at the US Capitol, and that in thirteen days my nation will have a new president.

  • EJP

    When life is difficult I STOP and take a deep breath, LOOK around me at all of my blessings that I am truly grateful for and then I GO, moving forward through the difficulties and toward the light of endless possibilities and opportunities.

  • 333USA

    I go to a place enter I can find quiet in solitude. I allow the quiet to overtake me in centering prayer. I then accept my circumstance as a way to grow closer to God. Then I recollect some of the many things I am grateful to God for delivering to me or delivering me from in my life.

  • Dusty Su

    I say, “Thank God, it’s not always like THIS…!”over and over. Then I remind myself to think on how this will look a year from now. I look to my history, which tells me I have always made it through the other side of way worse difficulties, and I will with this one too. I then try to discern between fear and truth. I take one positive step/action toward remedying or responding to the situation, rather than reacting to it.

    • Joanne

      Dusty Su, thank you for what feels like true wisdom to me.
      Joanne

      • Dusty Su

        Thank you Joanne, learned over decades, and not near perfect in these practices…in fact, today I had to remember to employ them. Writing them down here served as a kick in the pants, ha, ha!

  • Lioness

    I break it down into more manageable bits. When things are difficult I become more overwhelmed and the simplest of tasks can seem daunting. So I break things down and they become less overwhelming, meaning I will continue to benefit from the practices still.

  • Michele

    Self reliance and communication with loved ones when life is difficult. Nature too.
    Thoughts and prayers for peace to my fellow Americans. I came home from work to chaos on the news. Terrible. Very unsettling to say the least.

  • Howie Geib

    The best tool is practicing presence. In this sense: binging my focus and attention, my internal and external ‘gaze’ into the present moment and letting the past and future fall away. In that place time seems to slow way down, and I am able to follow my breath. And as I do that, clarity of where I am, physically, mentally and spiritually seem to settle. From this posture, almost without any conscious effort, gratitude emerges.

  • Pam

    By going out in nature and grounding myself . I also limit my viewing of news and time spent on social media

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