Take The Five Day Gratitude Challenge To Boost Your Mood- While Thanksgiving lifts our spirits, you can have a feeling of gratitude every day, along with the benefits.
It takes mastering to get the full benefits from gratitude. To help, here is the Five Day Gratitude Challenge. Go for it!
- Day 1: Begin focusing on your five senses. Start by journaling this: “Today I am grateful for these three things I saw…” Days two through four, do the same for each of the other senses.
- Day 2: Cultivate thankfulness with each breath. Check out this VIDEO for a simple exercise in breathing.
- Day 3: Reflect on the gifts you got after going through hardship. Identify three of them.
- Day 4: Express gratitude to others, in writing.
- Day 5: Notice and appreciate the small stuff. Journal some of it.
Reminder! Each day you will add the exercise from Day one to your challenge. More HERE from CNN.com.
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