Dear Friends,<\/p>\n
A few years ago, Bren\u00e9 Brown shared a quote<\/a>\u00a0on her blog from\u00a0Brother David Steindl-Rast:<\/p>\n The root of joy is gratefulness. We tend to misunderstand the link between joy and gratefulness. We notice that joyful people are grateful and suppose that they are grateful for their joy. But the reverse is true: their joy springs from gratefulness. …<\/p>\n We hold the key to lasting happiness in our own hands. For it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In Uncovering Happiness<\/em>, Elisha Goldstein describes a study where participants were split into three groups – one group counted five blessings a day, one group five burdens, and one group neutral things. The study found that the group who counted blessings experienced less stress and enhanced well-being.<\/p>\n In last Sunday’s email, I mentioned Adrianne Ross’s talk on joy<\/a>. In that talk, she mentioned an idea that sparked a smile that’s been in my heart all week, so I just had to share as a practice for today! It’s called the gratitude alphabet<\/em>. It goes something like like this:<\/p>\n A – I’m grateful for apples Perhaps that could be something to try today.<\/p>\n In terms of your daily practices, what does it feel like to incline your mind towards gratitude as you engage in each task?<\/p>\n I’d love to hear your reflections!<\/p>\n With best wishes, Dear Friends, A few years ago, Bren\u00e9 Brown shared a quote\u00a0on her blog from\u00a0Brother David Steindl-Rast: The root of joy is gratefulness. We tend to misunderstand the link between joy and gratefulness. We notice that joyful people are grateful and suppose that they are grateful for their joy. But the reverse is true: their joy springs from gratefulness.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[85,63,91,6,84],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2017","tag-adrianne-ross","tag-brene-brown","tag-brother-david-steindl-rast","tag-gratitude","tag-joy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nB – I’m grateful for books
\nC – I’m grateful for cheese
\nD – I’m grateful\u00a0for dogs
\n… and so on through the alphabet<\/p>\n
\nAndrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"