I’m grateful! It coulda been a lot worse.

01 Dec 2023
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I’m grateful! It coulda been a lot worse.

Just had one of the last birthdays in my 70’s. (Gulp! My 80’s are just around the corner.) And to add injury to insult, less than two weeks before Turkey Day, I fractured my elbow….on my dominant arm. But I was lucky. No excruciating pain. Only some– mild and intermittent. As the medical technician painted me in a plexiglass cast from my wrist to my elbow, I started fretting about the challenges ahead, like driving home.  Not to mention living alone. It’s a lot  harder to manage everyday tasks with only your non-dominant hand, like taking a shower, getting dressed, doing dishes, and opening cans.  (I must have a right-handed.

The Benefits of Being Grateful

01 Dec 2023
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What Is Being Grateful? To understand how being grateful is itself beneficial, it’s important to understand what I mean by ‘being grateful’. When a person is grateful for something, they believe they benefitted from what they are grateful for and they appreciate having received that benefit.  The following postulates about gratitude support the idea that gratitude benefits those who are greatful. How Gratitude Benefits the Grateful The following postulates about gratitude support the idea that gratitude benefits those who are greatful. You’re grateful when you feel appreciation for something you believe benefitted you. Being in a state of gratitude is being in a positive state.  And being in a positive.