How do you cultivate gratitude as a habit for happiness?

Practicing gratitude can help you build stronger relationships, improve your mental health, and enhance your overall satisfaction with life. By recognizing and appreciating the good things in life, you can shift your focus away from what you lack and instead focus on what you have. Gratitude helps to increase positive emotions, reduce stress, and increase resilience. Taking the time to reflect on what you are thankful for can help you feel more connected to the people and things around you. It can also help you to develop a more positive outlook on life and become more present in the moment. By expressing gratitude regularly, you can experience a greater sense of joy and fulfillment in life.

Gratitude is an emotional gift; we can use, abuse, neglect, or reject it. Eternal Gratitude is a compulsion from God, through His Son, Jesus the Christ, by His given Holy Spirit of Truth. All people can be thankful through their natural human nature, but when we receive God's thankfulness through His Son by His given Holy Spirit we rise above our short-lived thankfulness and see through His given eternal Spiritual eyes! We see the world and all we are given in a new way. It becomes more than a habitual duty or choice, it comes like the wind and blows our mind far above our imagination!

An attitude of gratitude can and will always lead to an attitude of GLADitude! We tend to focus on the negatives in our current situations too much. Instead of worrying about what we do not have, we should reframe our perspective. Don't allow your circumstances to define you or your destiny. This is just a temporary stage in life, and not a permanent residence. Be thankful for the things you do have. You are alive. You are breathing. You have a roof over your head, clothes on your back, food on your table. It's the necessities in life that we tend to take for granted. Some people are not fortunate enough to have a roof over their head or food to eat. Change your mindset, change your habits, and you can change your life for the better!

Quoting Department of Labor statistics, organizational psychologist Lea Waters https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/profleawaters says more than half the U.S. population suffers from GDD, gratitude deficit disorder: a feeling of being undervalued and unappreciated at work. When you express your gratitude to an individual or group, you can set a bigger ripple effect in motion. Waters found that when one person expresses appreciation, it can become contagious. People reciprocate, and appreciation becomes amplified across an organization with the potential to positively influence job satisfaction of a much wider set. So don’t just “catch people doing things right.” Catch people recognizing others, amplify their message—and watch gratitude go viral.

Most people will tell you to write down what you are thankful for, and it will remind you each day. God tells us He will remind us daily when we look at Him through Jesus by His given Holy Spirit of Truth. If we faithfully believe in Him and all He gives through His Spirit of Truth, our thankfulness comes like the wind or showers over us like an endless fountain. When we know them, we know all of our eternal wisdom, righteousness, holiness, redemption, lasting wealth in relationships, and small, and great things come from our Heavenly Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! The thankfulness of Jesus for all His Father has given Him is the fountain of gratitude He pours into our minds that never stops flowing! ??????

People teach or proclaim that if we keep saying we are thankful, telling others we are for them, or showing appreciation and recognition, we will magically be thankful. You can be thankful through your natural human nature, but it will never go to the eternal part of your mind; it will be short-lived. Eternal gratitude is what most are missing because it is a gift from God, and that kind of gratitude can only come through His Son by His Spirit. That is why I teach a Spiritual Awareness Class, A Spiritual Leadership Development Class, and a Spiritual Parental Development Class because not many know the given gratitude gift from God, through His Son, by His Holy Spirit.

The true deep sensations of eternal gratitude come from God. You can not manifest the deepness of God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit through your natural human thoughts, and they come to us through His Holy Spirit, and where they live in our minds is much deeper than we can reach. When you focus on our Heavenly Father and what He has given humanity through Jesus, His gratitude will come. You must follow Jesus to keep the eternal gratitude He gives. If you are following a human-manufactured religion that is full of human ways, words, and traditions, you will never experience the eternal gratitude God and His Son can only give through His Holy Spirit of Truth.

Our human natural positive attitudes never last. They dry up like the morning mist. Many claim they grow and improve through life's challenges, but their attitudes and thoughts are like the waves of the sea; they go up and down and become shallow. When we look for the silver lining, we will find one, but it will not last; it will be short-lived. The positive attitude of Jesus we receive through His Holy Spirit is the only eternal positive attitude that can overcome our difficulties and make us grow through the spiritual seed He planted. We will rejoice and give Him glory and praise for all the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Gives. The Fruit of His Spirit surpasses our natural human fruit in ways we can't imagine!

When we intentionally follow God through Jesus by His Given Spirit of Truth, their relationship becomes part of our daily lives, and what they pour into our souls becomes what we live out daily. We intentionally practice what they pour into our souls out of love for them, and gratitude comes like the wind!

While gratitude and negativity are incompatible, they are often found side by side and so there is a process of choosing which one to utilize. Gratitude isn’t just about being positive, there is an element of hope required even in the darkest moments. As we live our lives, minute by minute, actions and events occur around us and affect us directly or indirectly. All are part of our experience and we choose to accept or decline our level of interest or commitment to each of these events. Since we own our decision, we must own the consequences of the level of our interaction with these events. Therefore, when “bad” things happen, facing the event with sincere gratefulness downsizes the negativity and prepares one for a positive outcome.