What is Gratitude and Why is it so Important?
- Author
- Zena Dell Lowe
- Published
- Thu 25 Nov 2021
- Episode Link
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THE STORYTELLER’S MISSION WITH ZENA DELL LOWE
S2 E13 – Why is Gratitude so Important? Finding Peace in the Midst of Your Pain
Since it's Thanksgiving, we're taking a break from the current series in order to contemplate the concept of gratitude, which is one of the qualities we lose when we embrace a cynical moral worldview. In place of gratitude, we feel resentment, bitterness, and entitlement, which then leads to selfish behavior that causes harm to self and others. This is the trajectory. Once we adopt a cynical moral worldview, resentment, bitterness, and entitlement are inevitable. They are the logical fruit of a hopeless worldview.
Conversely, gratitude has the power to relieve of us from the bondage of these types of unhealthy emotions, not because we ignore our pain, but because we've learned to look for little acts of kindness that have been given to us even as we suffer. Practicing gratitude is not about Positive thinking, nor is it about ignoring the pain of our present day circumstances. In this podcast, Zena Dell Lowe outlines some key things that gratitude is NOT, and then shows how life changing it can be to practice gratitude in the right way at the right time with the right focus.
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