Good thought provoking content Joyce. The foundation to understanding our core guiding values helps address our ‘Why’ questions. Sometimes the answer is obvious. Sometimes it’s hiding, but digging for that understanding usually leads us to deeper self-awareness and greater meaning in our lives. I know that I love learning and sharing things that make a positive difference in our lives. This journey into the deeper dive experience of gratitude was so life changing for me, for us, as we delved beyond the surface level, that sharing felt like an obvious responsibility. I also feel now like it was the universe letting me know I was going to need a little help with something big that I didn’t know about at the time, but having my black-belt in deep gratitude has helped me negotiate the trauma named Ian that has defined my life for the past month and will for quite awhile to come. When you can go through a cat 4 hurricane with family and pets, knowing you are the one who has to hold it together, and can still do so with gratitude in every moment of the experience, you know you have entered a realm that matters. This took work and practice. It doesn’t live at the surface level of gratitude 101. This is graduate level study that pays off in life changing ways of thinking. Why is because it matters and I can’t keep something so important to myself. ❤️
Recently I looked into the scientific literature and found some scientific papers at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=gratitude+parasympathetic&oq=gratitude+para which showed that the practice of gratitude shifts the balance of our Autonomic Nervous Systems from the Sympathetic Nervous System (fear, fight flight, ego) to a more active Parasympathetic state (peace, acceptance, humility, connection with others).
If you and I prefer to be calm and peaceful then expressing gratitude is likely to help us get there.
Can you and I be grateful for the glass that is half full rather than bemoaning the fact it is half empty?
Why I wrote & promote this journal ( in 2 sentences): I believe Gratitude Mojo can help you gain insight and appreciation for your life. I intend to do whatever I can to bring it to your attention.
And boy, does our world need healing. Thanks for sharing your journey, Joyce. How do we get the Proud Boys and their crowd to read your book and apply the concepts? What a wonderful world it could be...
Boy ... nothing like putting a challenge out there. Putting Gratitude Mojo into the hands of the Proud Boys! Remember the old 6-degrees of separation exercise where someone sent a letter to someone with instructions to get it closer to whomever was the target? Apparently it's been done more recently with email. (link below). It would be very interesting to see how we could get a copy of Gratitude Mojo to a Proud Boy ... maybe just send one to one of them in prison? ;-)
Good thought provoking content Joyce. The foundation to understanding our core guiding values helps address our ‘Why’ questions. Sometimes the answer is obvious. Sometimes it’s hiding, but digging for that understanding usually leads us to deeper self-awareness and greater meaning in our lives. I know that I love learning and sharing things that make a positive difference in our lives. This journey into the deeper dive experience of gratitude was so life changing for me, for us, as we delved beyond the surface level, that sharing felt like an obvious responsibility. I also feel now like it was the universe letting me know I was going to need a little help with something big that I didn’t know about at the time, but having my black-belt in deep gratitude has helped me negotiate the trauma named Ian that has defined my life for the past month and will for quite awhile to come. When you can go through a cat 4 hurricane with family and pets, knowing you are the one who has to hold it together, and can still do so with gratitude in every moment of the experience, you know you have entered a realm that matters. This took work and practice. It doesn’t live at the surface level of gratitude 101. This is graduate level study that pays off in life changing ways of thinking. Why is because it matters and I can’t keep something so important to myself. ❤️
Thanks for taking time away from the ongoing and time consuming challenge of trying to get life back to normal!
Recently I looked into the scientific literature and found some scientific papers at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=gratitude+parasympathetic&oq=gratitude+para which showed that the practice of gratitude shifts the balance of our Autonomic Nervous Systems from the Sympathetic Nervous System (fear, fight flight, ego) to a more active Parasympathetic state (peace, acceptance, humility, connection with others).
If you and I prefer to be calm and peaceful then expressing gratitude is likely to help us get there.
Can you and I be grateful for the glass that is half full rather than bemoaning the fact it is half empty?
Why I wrote & promote this journal ( in 2 sentences): I believe Gratitude Mojo can help you gain insight and appreciation for your life. I intend to do whatever I can to bring it to your attention.
Thanks! You're earning your fee as my promotion coach!
And boy, does our world need healing. Thanks for sharing your journey, Joyce. How do we get the Proud Boys and their crowd to read your book and apply the concepts? What a wonderful world it could be...
Become the change you want to see
Boy ... nothing like putting a challenge out there. Putting Gratitude Mojo into the hands of the Proud Boys! Remember the old 6-degrees of separation exercise where someone sent a letter to someone with instructions to get it closer to whomever was the target? Apparently it's been done more recently with email. (link below). It would be very interesting to see how we could get a copy of Gratitude Mojo to a Proud Boy ... maybe just send one to one of them in prison? ;-)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4037-email-experiment-confirms-six-degrees-of-separation/
That might be the easiest way to get an address--of someone who may have the time to read it!
You know ... I know that was a "joke" ... but it's actually an idea.