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Did you know that we
spend 70 to 80% of our day
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in some form of communication?
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and the main form of
communication is speaking.
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Yes, we speak around
20,000 words every day,
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now that's a lot of words.
But do you know the two words
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that could make the
biggest change in our lives?
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Could it be Happy
Birthday on your special day?
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Or, I do when you
marry the person you want to
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share your life with.
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Well, no, it's
neither of these two words.
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The two words that can
make the biggest difference
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just might surprise you.
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You see, the two words
that can make all the difference
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are Thank you!
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Peter Williams was
a well educated lawyer
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who should have
had it all but instead
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he was going
through a very rough time.
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His life was in a mess, his
wife had just filed for divorce
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and he had moved out of
his expensive home into a
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small apartment, he
was quickly going broke
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getting health
issues and very miserable.
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Although Peter owned his
own legal firm in a big city
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he had very little money left.
Apart from the family situation,
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one of his problems was
that his clients weren't paying
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their invoices on time and
sometimes not even paying them
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at all, he could barely
afford to pay his employees.
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Peter felt his life
couldn't get any worse
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so how did he get
through these tough times?
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What could he do? Well, one
day he decided to get out of
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the city and go for a bushwalk,
as he was wandering along
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the track reflecting on
all the misery in his life
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he had a lightbulb moment,
he realized that he spent a lot
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of his time complaining,
a lot of time thinking
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negative thoughts but
very little time being thankful
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for the things that he had.
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Peter Williams
decided to change his thoughts
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and try to find things to
be grateful for in his life.
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He decided the most important
people in his life were
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his family. Somehow in his busy
life he had lost some of the
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connections he valued.
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Did they know how
important they were to him?
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Well, Peter decided he needed
to improve his communication
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and connections with his
family. Then he started writing
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and sending thank you messages
or emails to people in his
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business who had
worked hard for him.
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He wrote to his friends
who had stood beside him
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and then to his
clients who had trusted him.
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He wrote to all the
people he knew who had somehow
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had a positive
impact on his life.
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Peter gradually found
that his attitude was changing
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as he found more reasons
to be grateful he didn't have
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as many negative thoughts.
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He even found things right under
his nose to be thankful for
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that he hadn't even noticed.
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With a positive attitude
and perspective everything
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in his life seemed brighter
and he began to experience
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how to be grateful
when times are though.
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So, here is one thing you can
do that can dramatically improve
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your significant relationships,
make a difference in your
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career, boost your energy and
well- being, and help you feel
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less stressed about your life.
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So, join us to find out more
about the impact these two words
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can make in your life.
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Scientific researchers
show that it is not always the
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big things that make the
largest difference in life.
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It's the little things, in fact
these two words, "Thank You"
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can make all the difference.
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Research shows
that Gratitude can:
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Research also shows that
grateful people also often have
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better health.
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Did you know that people
who purposely express gratitude
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report higher self-esteem and
are more likely to help others
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and so have greater happiness.
Grateful people are more
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optimistic and have a greater
ability to deal with tough times
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find greater joy in life,
and are more generous with
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their time and money. Are
more forgiving and build better
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relationships. So gratitude
definitely has a positive effect
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on our brains and
on our characters.
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There's a famous saying by
the Indian sage Maharaja Gandhi
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that explains this well.
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These words are certainly
powerful words of advice
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they show that gratitude
is a way of seeing the world.
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It's a way that can change
your life, so let's discuss this
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further with someone who
has done a lot of research
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into these two words
that really do show gratitude.
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I have a special guest
in the studio with me today
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Don Macintosh has worked
as a trauma nurse, a minister,
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a counselor and as a teacher
inspiring and empowering people
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to get past negative thinking
and make positive change
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in their life by drawing
on scientific insight and
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spiritual inspiration.
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Don Macintosh,
welcome to our program today,
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we're talking about gratitude.
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Would you say most
people are positive or negative
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in their outlook on life?
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Well we're talking
about gratitude right,
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they've actually
done studies of people,
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of how many
thoughts they had their word.
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There's a researcher out of
Stanford University who thinks
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that a normal person such
as yourself would have about
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60-70,000 thoughts a day. The
problem is with those thoughts
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is that most of them are
negative thoughts about 90%
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well actually most of them
are repetitive thoughts I should
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say, 90% are repetition of the
same thought. You're thinking of
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the same thought again and again
and 80% of those are negative
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thoughts. So when you
are walking down the street
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most people are having the
same thoughts again and again
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and 80% of those
thoughts are negative thoughts.
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So, I would say most
people are largely negative.
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So what can people do about
this cycle of negative thinking?
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Well, first of all, they have
to recognize that it's a problem
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and then there needs
to be an intervention.
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You can't just let
people go with their thoughts
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90% of them being repetitive,
and 80% being negative,
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you got to intervene. There's
a guy his name is Robert Emmons,
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he's not too far from here
down in University of California
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Davis which is just down
from where we are sitting today.
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And Robert Emmons has done all
kinds of research on gratitude
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and gratitude interventions
and what he's discovered is that
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if you can get people to actu-
ally take a gratitude journal
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where they're actually
physically writing out things
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that they're grateful
for, it has a powerful impact
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on their health not only
physically but also emotionally
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and also mentally and you
might even say spiritually.
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If just once a week you
are sitting down and saying
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this is what I am grateful
for and then you start listing
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that and writing it out,
it has a profound impact.
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And then you can even increase
it more by having a daily
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gratitude journal. So you
start to write it out daily
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every day. Now when we do our
depression recovery programs,
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depression and anxiety
recovery programs, I work with
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Dr. Neil Nedley and we do these
a number of times a year...
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We actually on a sheet, on
the bottom of a sheet every day
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we have them list out their
gratitude for what they are
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grateful for. And this begins
to change something in their
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mind, they start to just totally
look at things in a different
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way and they actually recognize
that they are going to have to
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write something that they
are grateful for and so they are
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beginning to think about those
things and it radically changes
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who they are.
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What are the
rewards of gratitude?
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Well, you know, when you
look at the rewards of gratitude
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they're can be
physical aspects of gratitude...
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If you are grateful for
something you have this burst of
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energy, you're suddenly looking
at things you're thankful for,
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you're not looking at
things with that negative lens.
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And then you are more forgiving,
you have a...instead of driving
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down the street and being angry
about how a person is driving,
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you're grateful
that you didn't get hit.
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It's a totally different
mentality as you're going down
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the street you're able to
what we call reframe things.
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So sometimes I have someone come
in and I'm counseling with them
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in the depression recovery
anxiety thing and they tell me
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all the things that are
terrible about what happened...
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I say well let's write
those down, all these bad things
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and okay, that's bad. But
now this big box around the bad
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and let's see what you are glad
for. Because you see right now
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you're focused on the bad.
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What is it that
you are glad for?
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Even if the situation
was a terrible situation
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it was off...well
that's bad but what's good?
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Like there's a scripture that
says, they meant it for evil
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but I meant it for good
says God, so there's a different
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picture, something bad happened
but what is it that you had
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to be glad for? And they
go what kind of an assignment
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is that? And I say it's
an assignment that's going to
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get you out of the cycle, cause
now when you think about that
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event, you're going to
start thinking about the things
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that are good instead
of the things that are bad.
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And it's going to take all
of that negative gall out of it
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and you are going to be
able to go on in your life as a
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grateful person.
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You know another thing
that gratitude does is when you
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start being grateful, you begin
verbalizing it to other people
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and guess what that does?
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They want to hang out with
you more, they want to have
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a friendship with you. People
like it when you recognize
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and acknowledge things
that they have done and things
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that you're grateful for
and they actually want to
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be friends with you, so you
actually, end up having more
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friends from grateful
people around them usually.
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And then also they maintain
those friendships over time
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they kind of just draw on that.
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You know another thing about
grateful people is it's not
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that they ignore the negative
aspects of life, it's not like
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they don't acknowledge that
there's pain, there's suffering
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there's agony, they know
all about that, it's just that
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they're able to reframe that
and go forward and find things
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to be grateful even in
those negative situations.
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So, they've done various
studies where they do gratitude
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interventions...they did this
with Veterans and they helped
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them reframe and
what-not and after 21 days they
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see improvements, physically,
emotionally, mentally
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and they are able
to re-engage more.
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So, this has actually
become a science of gratitude.
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Like for instance, we
know that if someone is angry
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certain areas of their
brain light up or shut down.
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For instance with anger, this
area in the back of your brain,
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the cerebellum begins to
just shut down, Dr. Daniel Amen
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who has a clinic
not too far from here,
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he looks at the brains
and he can see that that just
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shuts down. But when
you have a grateful attitude
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that area begins to light up...
So again, this back section
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of the brain, the cerebellum,
is very big when it comes to
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emotion control
and gratitude control.
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This is why
exercise is so important,
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you get out there, you're
exercising, this section of your
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brain begins to coordinate
all of that and there is a
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there is an ability to handle
the thoughts and the emotions
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more effectively and we
see this when people come
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with depression and anxiety
many times they don't have any-
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thing to be
grateful for if you ask them.
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Once they start getting
better and they start exercising
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they are able to control
their thoughts, their emotions
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more effectively and
their actually able to share
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more things that
they are grateful for.
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So, what is happening
biochemically when we practice
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gratitude?
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Well, you know when someone is
grateful, even their chemistry
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changes. In the brain
we have neurotransmitters
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like for instance serotonin
which is made from tryptophan
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and hydroxytryptophan
in the presence of sunlight
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and green leafy vegetables
then enters serotonin.
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But gratitude actually
increases serotonin production.
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A lot of these anti-depressants
are actually trying to conserve
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those
bio-chemicals in your brain
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Gratitude stimulates the para-
sympathetic system that enhances
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dopamine, that's the system of
rewards, we're like look I feel
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rewarded when I am
sharing a grateful thought
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or when I have expressions
of gratitude or other people
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express gratitude to me
and then also our serotonin
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goes up so, the idea
of praise and gratitude
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even in music if you listening
to certain types of music...
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Music that is praising God
or rejoicing and it's throughout
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the scriptures
like devotional music.
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And if it's the right kind
of music there's music that's
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not so good for your brain and
there is music that is better
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but it's rigorous music that
is logical in its composition
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and its tones and it's
not catching you unexpectedly.
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Anyway, there is a whole science
to the music that helps your
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brain, but it actually
consolidates and enhances
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serotonin production.
So I find it fascinating
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that throughout the scriptures
for instance, if you are a
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Christian, you have all
of these texts they say like
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"Enter into His
courts with thanksgiving"
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and come in with
praise. And throughout it's like
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expressions of
gratitude 150 different Psalms
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which are
basically focusing on that.
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And then throughout the
scriptures it has other texts
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about this as well. So what
did we say? 70% of our thoughts
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It 60 to 70,000 thoughts
what is it, 90% of them are
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repetitive 80% of
them are negative...
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We need something to buffer
that and something that can
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come up against that,
that can change the chemistry
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and that is "Praise".
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So, I want to remind people
again that there's just a lot
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of positive things about looking
at book for instance the Psalms.
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Now, you understand the Psalms,
like there are five books
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in the Psalms,
right? Five books.
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But there are also five books
in the first five books of the
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Bible, so-called Pentateuch.
And these Psalms go right along
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with the stories and it's like
okay, I want to now sing about
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how God delivered people in
the past, how He can deliver
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me right? Expressions of
gratitude like for instance
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when they came out of Israel
and they were taken out of
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captivity, they sang a song...
I will sing unto the Lord for He
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has triumphed gloriously, the
horse and rider are thrown into
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the sea. And they are
just singing and praising,
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their rejoicing and
that expression of gratitude
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is totally changing
their brain chemistry.
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How can we increase
gratitude in our lives?
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Ways to increase gratitude.
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to answer that question but
physically, we want to exercise,
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we want to use our cerebellum,
we get out there, we want to
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walk, we want to jog,
we want to do those things,
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that's going to give us a
grateful disposition just there.
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So that's physical.
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So emotionally, again
that cerebellum, those emotions
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are controlled
when we are exercising.
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But they are also controlled
when we do things for instance
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like focusing our
thoughts on grateful things
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or filled with gratitude.
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You know, the Psalms, I
like to take the Psalms with the
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Proverbs and I ask three
simple questions of anything
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I am reading at any
time but especially when I'm
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reading the
Psalms or the scriptures.
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Number one is What
is the problem here
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that's being dealt
with in this passage?
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What kind of
problem in life is it?
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Is it anxiety, is
it stress? What is it?
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What is the solution
that is being offered?
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Okay, here is the solution.
You need peace, you need joy.
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But then, most importantly.
What's the process of moving
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from problem to solution?
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And I just look at that
and I say, what's that process
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and then I try to say that's
how I'm going to focus today.
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That's what I am going to
focus on today and it literally
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lifts me out of
depression and into joy
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and from groveling
to gratitude. Right.
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Another big thing is prayer.
For instance, prayer is a
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form of meditative
thought, I don't just say pray.
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I might just take a passage and
pray through and I'm focusing
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my mind...But they have
done studies on this and there's
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been all kinds of studies
since the year 2000 on prayer.
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Especially here in
America, used to never ever
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get research money to
use the word prayer, but now
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there has been over
6,000 studies done because
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they are seeing the power of it.
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And they have discovered
that the more you pray
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actually the
more grateful you are.
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People pray sporadically
are grateful sporadically.
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People that pray every single
day their gratitude goes up
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and the impact of it is
felt for weeks afterward,
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four, five, six weeks afterward
just through having that
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discipline, daily
discipline of prayer.
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Is there a special message
you have for our viewers today?
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You know, we have covered a
lot of things about gratitude
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I guess my message
for your viewers today is
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don't forget any
of it, do it often.
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Exercise, get involved
in mediation and prayer,
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reframe things, the different
things we have covered.
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But probably I'm reminded
of this famous person who
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went through the Nazi time
period in Germany and all the
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atrocities, her
name was Corrie ten Boom.
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She and her sister were in a
barracks where there were all
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kinds of fleas, it
was very miserable.
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But the guards hated the
fleas so they wouldn't come in.
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And so she was sitting there
one day saying, what do I have
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to be grateful for? And Willem,
her sister said we're grateful
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for the fleas. These fleas
are the best thing that ever
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happened to us. The guards don't
come in, they don't bother us.
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You know, you might be
in a horrible situation but
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you need to look for
that element that you can be
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grateful for and then
just praise God and rejoice
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in that. It just takes a choice,
it just doesn't just happen
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you got to choose gratitude
and there is always an angle
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there's always something.
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I remember this guy talking
one day and his family was
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always mean to him and one
day they tried to play a prank
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on him during the holidays and
they said look we're going to
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take this big box and
we're going to put a bunch of
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horse manure in it and so when
he opens it, it just smells bad
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and he gets it, he gets under
the tree and he opens it up
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and the smell is terrible
and he goes, oh this is great
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there's got to be a horse
somewhere, you guys got me a
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horse...You see, he saw the
positive when they tried to send
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a negative message. And this
is the mindset we got to have,
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we got to look for
what we can be grateful for.
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We need to choose, and this
is the thing I want your viewers
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to take...We need
to Choose Gratitude!
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We got 60/70,000 thoughts a
day 90% of them are repetitive,
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80% of them are negative, but
we don't have to go with that
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we can go with the 20%, expand
it to 40%, expand it to 80%,
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100% if we choose gratitude.
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Don Mackintosh, we are grateful
that you've been on our program
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today, and we are particularly
grateful that you've shared
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the importance of gratitude.
Well, I'm most grateful to be
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with you and
thank you for having me.
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What amazing information, it
seems so easy to choose to be
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grateful and the best part
is that it doesn't cost you
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anything and yet it
yields priceless results.
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It's much more than just saying
thanks, it's a way of seeing
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the world around us that
will help us be happy people
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let's look for things
we appreciate in our lives
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and to say those two
words that mean so much.
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So why not start practicing
gratitude with your family,
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your friends, your
colleagues, and people you meet.
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Tell someone today how grateful
you are they're in your life.
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Here are just a few suggestions
to help us all to be grateful.
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Focus on the
positive things in your life.
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Be grateful for what you
have rather than what you don't.
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Tell people in your life
some- thing that you appreciate
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about them.
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Be kind to everyone around
you- hold a door for a stranger,
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smile more and thank
people for what they do for you.
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Write a list of all the
things you are grateful for.
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And consider reading the Bible.
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As our guest Don Macintosh
said, the Bible can also give us
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guidelines about
being thankful to God.
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When we practice gratefulness
to God, it gets our eyes off
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ourselves and helps us to
focus back on what is important
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is faith and trust in God.
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It is during the time of
crisis that we often turn to God
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that's often when we
recognize the existence of God
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and that God is still
in control of this world.
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Here's a Bible passage about
thanking God for His laugh,
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His promises to care for
us and supplying our needs.
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We really do have so much
to be thankful for in our lives
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if we could fill our
hearts with gratitude
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then it will leave no room for
negative thoughts or complaining
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so why not give gratitude a
go? You'll be thankful you did.
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Would you like to
improve your relationships?
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Be more content in your career.
Boost your energy and wellbeing.
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and feel less stress
and anxiety about your life.
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If you would like to
have this happier life,
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then why not try adding
simple words of gratitude
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and see how it can help
you get through tough times.
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today's program on gratitude,
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and our reflections on the
change these thoughts and words
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can bring to our lives, then be
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Until then, let's pray and
thank God for His guidance,
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protection, and blessings.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
We're so thankful for your love
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and for the many
blessings that you give us.
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Thank you that you promised
to never leave us or forsake us
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and that you are able to
bring us hope through even the
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toughest times. We pray that
you will help us to set our eyes
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on you. In Jesus'
name, we pray, Amen!
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