We can choose to be grateful or we can choose to be ungratefulto take our gifts and blessings for granted.

What is the meaning of feeling gratitude. The feeling of genuine gratitude opens the channels for more goodness to enter into our life experience. Gratitude is a warm feeling of thankfulness towards the world or towards specific individuals. Gratitude is always available to us even when we dont feel it.

Being grateful is the moment of the action. Each passing moment provides an opportunity to experience and express gratitude although most of us are so wrapped up in our own personal dramas that we miss out on the beauty of the present moment. It is also a choice we make.

Expressing gratefulness to God for all the various things He does for us is called gratitude in spiritual practice. Perhaps this is where soothing and pleasant come in. If your present moment is a moment of sadness or frustration stop and breath and observe your feelings with loving compassion not resistance.

For example share an uplifting moment from a recent event or a lesson you learned from a book you read or a photo of a place near you that youre grateful for. She goes on to say. Its an affirmation of goodness.

Gratitude is defined as a positive emotional reaction that serves a biological purpose. Gratitude is a personality trait a mood and an emotion. Another definition emphasizing its social aspect comes from social psychology researchers who claim that.

Be grateful to yourself for loving compassion. We affirm that there are good things. Gratitude is a feeling that spontaneously emerges from within.