If you practice gratefulness, you will live it in a profoundly natural way.

You can aspire to being grateful. You can turn gratitude on and off, but if you want it to be organic and innate, then you must commit to a grateful practice on a regular, daily basis.

Breathing air is organic and essential for our survival. Just as we don’t consciously think about each breath, genuine gratitude can become so natural that it shifts from something we “do” to something we “are.”

Once you create a grateful attitude and a daily ritual, you are transformed into thankfulness, appreciation, liking, and valuing other people and things, as well as life itself.

It’s the difference between wanting to be grateful when we remember to, versus creating the neural pathways and habits that make appreciation our default response to life.

Through consistent practice, we don’t just become people who practice gratitude, but people who naturally notice and value what’s around us.

As Dr. Robert A. Emmons, a leading gratitude researcher at UC Davis, confirms through his scientific studies:

“This mental state [of gratitude] grows stronger with use and practice… In the face of demoralization, gratitude has the power to energize. In the face of brokenness, gratitude has the power to heal. In the face of despair, gratitude has the power to bring hope.”

His research validates what many discover through testing—gratitude literally strengthens through repetition, becoming as automatic and life-sustaining as breath itself.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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