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Are you ready to start your own gratitude list?
Here is a simple how-to for grateful people of all ages.
Science has proven that keeping a gratitude list—even if its only three things daily—creates healthier, happier people. Gratitude’s not only good; it’s good for you! You don’t have to be rich or fa-mous for gratitude to matter. It’s important to count your blessings, and to share them with others, no matter your station in life, no matter how young or old you are.
Don’t know where to start with gratitude? That’s easy. Start with your heartbeat or with your breath. Those are things we take for granted, but without them we are nothing. Think about your friends, your family, an amazing memory all of your senses: the things you see, hear, smell taste, and touch. Your favorite foods and flavors. A book or a song that opened your heart or changed your life.
Be open to it all. Write it down without judgment. There are no wrong answers here. Just write down your memory. (Gratitude, it is said, is the memory of the heart). Be complete. Write the entire feeling or memory. One of the wonderful things about your gratitude is it introduces others to new things.
Do it today. Then do it again tomorrow. It takes such a short time, but the results are powerful.
Still feeling stuck? Try answering these questions to get your heart moving and your brain feeling:
As part of Burbank READs "On Gratitude" there are a few ways that you too can express what you are grateful for. Donate cans or boxes of food at your Burbank Library. Write a letter to a member of our military services that will be sent on through Operation Gratitude. Write a gratitude list and leave it to be posted on our Gratitude trees or keep an eye out for our roving cameraperson and you could be a part of our next video post!
Help us make the World's longest Gratitude list!
What are YOU grateful for? Help us create THE WORLD’S LARGEST GRATITUDE LIST! Submit a Gratitude List at any of the Burbank Libraries or online at http://www.burbanklibrary.com/ or http://www.thegratitudelist.org/. We will share it, then add it to our list. Let’s Circle the City with Gratitude!
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