Take a few minutes to write down why you've decided to keep this journal. What are you hoping to accomplish? What are your personal intentions for it? Throughout the year, check back with this post to keep yourself on track.
In the interest of becoming "me" again, I decided to keep my heart and head in the positive energy of gratitude as often as possible. When depressed or sleepless, I often find that my only solace is listing everything for which I am grateful. The Law of Attraction states that "like attracts like" and I find that, as I focus on things that I am thankful for, positive things continue to grow in my life. Unfortunately, just thinking the thoughts is not always enough. It is easy to get sucked back into frustration and sadness when things aren't exactly going the way I had hoped/planned for my life. This is where the journal benefits me the most. Writing down my thoughts helps them to be more concrete, less abstract. I am able to go back to them and remember the happiness I felt from the most simple of events.
It is my hope that a commitment of a weekly Gratitude Journal entry will grow into a daily practice. In the meantime, I am happy to set aside time once a week (at least) to reflect on all that I am thankful for. I know this will help me to retain the positive feeling I have enjoyed this first week of "Project Gratitude". While speaking with my therapist, I realized that my confidence grows because I am closer to the pure energy I am most familiar with when I am focusing on gratitude.
My most valued and cherished traits is my sense of compassion. I feel my gratitude grow when I am able to express and show compassion for others. I am also capable of even higher levels of compassion through my focus on gratitude. It is a never ending cycle of showing compassion, feeling gratitude for the opportunity, the increased ability to show and express compassion to others, and the infinitesimal increase in my gratitude. I hope to continue on this cycle and am excited to see the heights my gratitude can take me.
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