On June 1, we began again our 100 Days of Happiness adventure. This is an informal practice for 100 days of writing down, taking a photo or both of something that makes you happy. It doesn’t need to be big and amazing (although it can) it is instead an exercise in finding beauty in the…
Tag: Thankful Thursday
A Year of Gratitude: Lowi & G Way
This Friday we are highlighting our Thankful Thursday and other gratitude installments that we’ve shared throughout the year. These are some of our favorites but please let us know what yours might have been. #100DaysofHappiness One hundred days of sharing photos of everyday things that made us happy was a simple project and yet each…
Thankful Thursday: Small Mementos, Big Love!
Around this time of the year I tend to do a lot of reflection about the last (almost) 12 months. What I have accomplished, what fell by the wayside. Our Thankful Thursday is also a bit of that reflection on the things we love. I was thinking about that when I looked up from my…
Thankful Thursday: Gratitude, Grace and Self-Reflection
This week’s book is Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection by Gregg Krech. This is a Buddhist technique developed by Ishin Yoshimoto in the late 1940s as a way to reflect on yourself, the gifts you receive, the gifts you give and your actions. Naikan is an exercise in self-reflection with gratitude…
Thankful Thursday: Affirming What is GOOD!
“Gratitude: Affirming the Good Things in Life” by Melody Beattie is a collection of excerpts from her other books. Beattie falls into the self-help guru realm but not after having walked many miles in the shoes of struggle and recovery. All that to say, if you want to talk someone who gets gratitude, she’s your…
Discovering happiness even when you aren’t feeling it
For the last 39 days we’ve been putting the focus on what’s right in our lives. So far it’s been a fun experiment but there is also room for a fair amount of realism in this laboratory of life. We can abstractly know we are grateful and happy for the things we have in life…
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