Gratitude Challenge

What I know is being grateful raises us up. It’s easy to be grateful when life is good. It’s when life is challenging us that we need to build our gratitude muscle.

So much happens each day that if we were to stop and take a closer look as to what is going on under the surface, we’d realize that we have so much to be grateful for. Such as:

The fact that our bodies function like they do. When we take a moment to think about how it functions like it does. We breathe. We digest. Our blood flows through out our bodies. We heal. We sleep. I could go on and on regarding our bodies, they are miraculous (in my mind). We can be so grateful for our bodies and our health. So many don’t have their health. If you do, be grateful.

I also think that it is important to be grateful for the fact that we have a roof over our heads. Food in our fridge. A warm bed. A car to get around. Again, there is so much abundance in our lives just right under our roofs. So many don’t have a roof, if you do, be grateful.

I also am in gratitude for the fact that we have food at our fingertips at grocery stores and farmers markets. I think of all the work that farmers do, the food manufacturers, drivers do to get the food to us and the grocery store workers who display it well on shelves and the cashiers to help us check out. All the workers that are behind each meal we eat. So much to be grateful for in that process of getting ourselves fed each day. If you have meals each day, so many don’t, be grateful.

What if we had a (family) practice in November, or all year long, to look each day at what we choose to be grateful for from our day. Start with the basics and keep building on it. This practice can be done at the dinner table discussion, or a journal entry or a gratitude jar or a bedtime or morning routine. But the consistency trains our brains and our eyes to look for things to be grateful for each day.

Being grateful has many biological benefits such as: we feel more peaceful and that allows us to sleep better, it lifts our mood overall, it actually has been proven to increase our immune systems and keep us healthier. A Gratitude practice has shown to decrease depression and anxiety as well as reducing chronic pain and risk of disease.

I challenge you to take on the practice of gratitude and see how it effects your over all wellbeing. Ready. Set. Go!

Join the challenge this November and lets share what we see. You can find me on Instagram and on Facebook sharing, and I’d love to have your voice in the conversation! Tag me! I’ll share your gratitude post/story! You’re it! 😉

Happy November! Happy Gratitude!