What positive emotion do you feel most often?
I spent many years writing gratitude lists. Even in the darkest days of being locked up in an asylum, my liberty driving licence career and children all taken as punishment for speaking up about having been raped and brutally attacked by a (still serving) police officer.
I still often wrote even short gratitude lists, food nutrition a bed to rest in and life itself… so many people do not even have those basic things. This practice instilled a feeling of real gratitude for even the simplest of things.
As I sip coffee this morning and eat granola honey and blueberries for breakfast gazing at them huge sail shaped tower across the water, I feel nothing but gratitude.
My babies suffered enormously as have I. Yet we have our lives and our humour ! As the sun streams in through the window I feel enormous gratitude for the bravery of men who have stood for the principles, not perhaps those of England, but in the world. International law the founding principles grown from the inhumanity and horrors of civilised nations murdering millions of people. Not casualties of war, but ethnic cleansing. Men who fight to uphold these laws, these protections from tyranny are what makes me feel grateful everyday….. Gratitude my positive place practiced everyday …. Make a list of gratitude.
More strength to you