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Reframing Your Circumstance

By bawarrior | November 18, 2022

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Living Life With Gratitude

Life is hard.

You can choose to lay down and have it destroy you or you can reframe your thinking and how you view your circumstance by finding things and people in your life for which you can be grateful.

It’s that time of year when we hear people say they are thankful for their life, we see trinkets in our homes that say, “Grateful, thankful, blessed”, and Thanksgiving is right around the corner in which tell the people around d us that we are thankful for them in our lives.

Thankfulness is a hot topic in November, but what if you are struggling right now?

What if you are going through a rough patch?

Well, this is the time, more than ever that you need to find those moments, things, and people in your life that make your life special, happy, or filled with joy.

By reframing how we see our circumstance we enable ourselves to be at peace through these hard times. By seeking out the silver linings in our lives we are choosing a path of gratitude and happiness amidst the struggles.

This can be life altering! And the more we practice this way of thrilling and speaking the more often we will see what we are going through as just a moment, or blip, in time. A moment that will pass and nothing more.

Remember, we all have these moments. They are chances to define our character, grow, and reinvent ourselves. Without these hard times we cannot truly appreciate the good that has been in our lives or the good that is to come.

Reframe your thinking. Reframe your circumstance. Practice mindfulness, living in the moment and appreciating the little things in your life that are truly good.

Living a life of gratefulness is a choice, and one that will not only affect your situation, but it’ll also effect the people around you.

Choose an attitude of gratitude and spread that to all those around you. You might be surprised on how your outlook on life will be uplifted, and how you bless someone else with your positivity will come back to you ten-fold.

Practicing gratitude and reframing your circumstance:

* Don’t be picky, appreciate everything!

*Be mindful, and present

*Keep a gratitude journal

*Remember the hard/bad times, they will help you cherish where you are now.

*Pay it forward

*Reflect. Spend 5, 10, 30 minutes in quiet time, thinking about all you have

*Reframe your bad situation by finding the silver linings, what it could be teaching you, and how you are growing stronger for the future by going through it.

*Celebrate the little things

The sunshine

My family

My prosthetic that allows me my freedom

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours,

And as always,

Be Healthy,

Be Happy,

Be YOU!!!

Much love,

Angie

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Gratefulness

By bawarrior | November 24, 2021

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A Grateful Heart Leads to a Happy Heart

It really has to be said that where our minds go, our hearts go, too. If you are stuck in a bad way, and can’t seem to find happiness or joy in your life then check your thoughts. How do you speak to yourself? How do you speak to others?

Everyone goes through trials, that’s just life. The way each of us deals with those trials, those valleys in our lives, determines how we come through them. I chose to amputate, and I choose to make the most of my life now. I try and choose happiness, joy, and a grateful heart everyday I wake up. Somedays it is harder than others, I get that, I have been there, but those moments do NOT dictate my overall mental state that day. Sometimes I need to practice speaking more positively towards myself, and giving myself some grace, on those days. Sometimes it’s easy to see the positive, and sometimes it’s the hardest thing EVER!

The point is, when you practice being grateful, and seeing all the good things in your life, in your circumstance, you will radiate joy, you will see the health benefits of a happy heart and mind. And they do go hand in hand.

Try it!

What are you happy about? What are you grateful for in your life?

In this podcast I share with you the people, and things, I am grateful for. I choose to practice gratefulness.

As you head into this Thanksgiving week, pay attention to the people and moments that are happening around you. Be grateful for even the smallest things. I guarantee you will feel so much better about yourself.

I am Grateful for:

My Guys My Hubby

My Pup, Bella

Our New Home

My Family❤

This week write down the things you are thankful for and place them where you can see them everyday.

*Use a smooth, fabric table cloth and permanent markers and begin a new tradition of writing something you are thankful for over the past year. Do this as a Thanksgiving tradition and each year add something to it with your friends and family. Then each year that you pull it out you’ll have a constant reminder of the things you’ve been thankful for over the years.

*Start a Thankfulness Jar. Have a big open jar or bowl sitting out for the holiday season with slips of paper, then each night have everyone write something they are thankful for that day, and then date them. On New Year’s Day have everyone take turns pulling them out and reading them.

*Begin a journal that is simply: I am thankful for:…..

Write in it every night, going to bed with a full heart of gratitude.

Have a very special, wonderful, and blessed Thanksgiving. Safe travels!

As always,