On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind

Attitude and Gratitude with Heart and Mind


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Exercises for Attitude & Gratitude with Heart and Mind

 Exercise one: Reviewing your attitude

  • Consider your attitude in all the settings of our life settings
  • Are you pleased with your attitude? Does it include your heart?
  • If there’s difference between how you’d like to be and how you are, why is this so.
  • What stops you from being the way you’d like to be?

 

Exercise two: Considering gratitude

  • Do you think there’s a connection between gratitude and the heart’s love? Why /why not?
  • Think of the people involved in getting a favorite manufactured item to you.
  • Allow a feeling of gratefulness to grow.
  • Notice a feeling of wanting to give back.
  • Explore your channels for giving back.

 

Quotations

 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

— William James

 

Everything can be taken away but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

— Viktor E. Frankl

 

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Meister Eckhart

 

 

 

 

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On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and MindBy Ron Schneebaum, MD

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