Gratitude

As we celebrate Thanksgiving, have you counted your blessings? Have you shared your appreciation with others? Let's explore what gratitude really is and how it shows up in our lives.

1. Is gratitude nature or nurture? Are some people born with a grateful nature? Or is gratitude something we learn and practice over time?
2. When do you experience appreciation? At milestones, your birthday, or Thanksgiving? Or do you keep a daily gratitude journal?
3. What are you grateful for? Your health? Your friends and family? Nature? Simple everyday moments?
4. How do you experience appreciation? Is it more of an emotional feeling? Do you feel moved and touched? Or do you appreciate cognitively, by putting words to your gratitude?
5. Do you share your gratitude with others? How do you express it?
6. Gratitude toward whom? Can you be grateful with no one to thank? For example, toward life, nature, or luck?
7. Gratitude for setbacks. Can you be grateful for hard times? Does gratitude help you get through them? Or does it come later, when you see the lessons you learned?
8. Receiving gratitude. How do you receive gratitude when others express it to you?