Gratefulness: A Necessary Ingredient for Relationships

There is a powerful energy that comes from being thankful and so grateful. This energy can positively effect any marriage & will not be fooled by someone who has begun to fake their gratitude, even if they are supposedly in love and constantly together. Regardless of the risks, always feel grateful to those who provide you with happiness and a richer life. It's well worth it to be in love! Being thankful is an important part of life and helps spread more light in a world that can sometimes be so dark. Let’s consider three benefits of living gratefully.

Heartfelt Peace

Brother David Steindl-Rast has observed that "Learning to live gratefully actually teaches us how to die peacefully." That's because how we choose to live our lives affects other people. If you really want to commit to someone, then investing in their happiness will return a lot of value. Won't you make that investment in your future with them?

First, decide how you want to be remembered. Will your legacy be something to be proud of and a name that lasts, or will it quickly become a memory and no one will care anymore? At its heart, gratitude is about wanting the best for others - even when things aren't going so well.

The Stop-Look-Go method is a way to live more grateful and thankful. It empowers individuals to remember time spent with loved ones by stopping to experience the world with all of their senses, taking the time to taste and feel, and then applying that new perspective at work or school. For example, many opportunities to be grateful come up during our walks. Some of these include the way different types of birds nest and reproduce during mating seasons and how they nest. We will often stop and discuss different aspects of our quotidian walks along the route we walk every day, whether it be on the sidewalk or close to a stream or river. We may write in the journal about new observations we've learned from trees and water. This method helps you appreciate the mundane and make your marriage, even the smallest change with mindfulness.

Mindful Healing

When people struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, they can get really caught up in their thoughts. These cycles can lead to a sense of being out of balance. However, we tend to think who we are and that is something that is important in this process as well.

Mindfulness for marriage is when you are aware of the emotional tags you have attached to your thoughts, which affects your relationships. Serving your partner and not just being present in life events will promote mindfulness. No more phone glued to your ear or mindless hours scrolling on your phone. You'll end up with a lot more to talk about! Choose a random stranger and do something nice for them. Everyone has their moments of negativity, so try to be happy in order to spread happiness & positivity on the planet. Your words, thoughts and deeds can benefit others even if you're not visible or in contact with them.

Courageous Suffering

Only a few months ago, someone I knew lost their wife. Because of that and the way it made me feel, I started to reconsider my outlook on life and how grateful and happy I should be in my own moments. People can be really judgmental when it comes to things in other people's lives and choices they make. I know that at times, you might hear someone say that someone is too clingy or thankful, but the truth is we all have bouts of unhappiness, unease in our lives, and doubt.

Robert Eammons (2010), a researcher on gratefulness at The Greater Good Science Center, has reported that there is significant value in grateful living. In one study, he had over one thousand participants make daily entries in gratitude journals for several weeks. These entries were not necessarily complex or long; concise and reflective thoughts were sufficient. He found the participants improved physically, psychologically, and socially.