Turn Your Life Into the Best Story You've Ever Read

Shopping lists, to-do lists, packing lists -- lists are an easy way for busy people to retain information.  Of all places, I found myself making the most lists in the hospital.  And of all kinds of lists (after a surgery that went terribly wrong) I found myself creating a gratitude list. This was one of many lists I created every night in the hospital.  I'd make myself think of something I was grateful for from A to Z, even when I hated my circumstances.  By rummaging through my angry and frustrated thoughts, eventually, some positivity submerged.  By the time I reached "Z," my life had not changed dramatically, but my thoughts had. Finding Gratitude and Starting Your Story You don't need a set of fancy paints to create art, you don't need a picture-perfect life to find every day gratitude, and you certainly don't need a fancy hardcover journal to start a grateful list.  Take a blank page, letter it A to Z from beginning to end, and just start.  It doesn't have to make sense.  Some words can be a bit of a stretch.  It's even okay to get away with "x-citement" or "quanberry juice."  It's just to get your head in a different place. And sometimes, when your head's in a different place... Your body will be too. Where's the most outlandish place you can find gratitude today? In the hospital, I made daily gratitude lists when there wasn't much to immediately be grateful for.  But finding gratitude was a way to make "sense" of my story.  If I were grat...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news