Gratitude & Health
Gratitude Improves Your Health
How to Be Healthy with Gratitude
Daily thoughts of gratitude can improve both your health and happiness by strengthening your immune system and increasing your level of optimism.
Health and Happiness—two of the universal goals of all people are just a step or two away. There is something you can do daily to be happy and healthy, it will cost you nothing and take very little time. Be grateful. Gratitude practiced daily will strengthen your immune system and help you approach life with greater optimism.
Gratitude Exercises from Positive Psychology
Research shows that simply focusing each day on three to five things for which you can be grateful will increase your health and happiness. Everyone has something to be grateful for. Just being alive for one. Having a job, or enough money for lunch, or a roof over your head are all things to be appreciated.
For an even stronger dose of health and happiness, express your gratitude to someone else. Holding the thought of gratitude for a good friend will benefit you. Expressing that gratitude to the friend will benefit both of you.
Failing to reflect on the everyday benefits of being alive may be a big mistake, robbing you of the opportunity for a healthier, happier life.
Tips for Good Health
University of California Davis positive psychology professor Robert Emmons’ research indicates that “Grateful people take better care of themselves and engage in more protective health behaviors like regular exercise, a healthy diet, (and) regular physical examinations.” His research finds that grateful people tend to be more optimistic, a characteristic that boosts the immune system.
“A growing body of research supports the notion that rediscovering a sense of abundance by thinking about those people and things we love lowers the risks of coronary events,” offers clinical psychologist Blair Justice, Ph.D., professor-emeritus of psychology at the UT School of Public Health at Houston.
Justice practices a gentle daily examination. “At the end of the day, I ask myself three questions.”
- “What has surprised me?”
- “What has touched me?”
- “What has inspired me?”
He says that “hard-bitten folks have trouble finding beauty or seeing life anew in a daily way, and their arteries and immune system suffer for it.” Answering these three questions inspires us to see the stuff of our days through fresh eyes.
Today, on your way home from work or as you get ready for bed, focus on three to five events of the day for which you are grateful. These need not be big events. After all, you’re alive. Even being stuck in rush hour traffic can offer the benefit of soft music on your radio or quiet time to think. There are many, many reasons to be grateful each day. As you focus on them, notice the sense of peace that envelops you.
by Jerry Lopper
http://personaldevelopment.suite101.com/article.cfm/gratitude_and_your_health
Medition for Intuition: from Yogi Bhajan
WISDOM FROM YOGI BHAJAN:
MAKE AGREEMENTS WITH GOD
May 15, 2000
Man is a social animal and cannot live alone. We need to live together. It becomes extremely easy to be united if we have a meditative mind. When we act through our impulse, we are just two-legged animals. We look human but we are impulsive and guided by emotions, commotions and neuroses. By our meditative mind we act through intuition. When you are intuitive, you live your caring, compassionate and kind nature. Through the virtue of a meditative nature you enjoy your real nature. You will always be prosperous. You cannot be defeated. When wrong things happen to us we blame the environments. Environments are not to be blamed! We rely on our easy, impulsive nature. We all refuse to confront. We say, “Leave him alone! Time will teach him. Let him have his way. Why should we do anything?” Our nature is to avoid confrontation. Consequently, by habit, we are liars. We lie to ourselves to start with, and then to everybody else, because we are non-confronting and non-expressive. That is why our prayer does not work. Our prayer is non-confrontational. If you do not confront and make agreements with God, you do not have a relationship with Him.
BEING INTUITIVE
Sat Nam and greetings,
Welcome to the October addition of our online prosperity newsletter. This month’s quote from Yogi Bhajan tells us that being intuitive and being willing to confront are keys to creating a prosperous and successful life.
We invite you to take some time today and ask yourself: what is blocking your success and prosperity? What do you need to confront so those blocks can be cleared? What agreements with the Divine would you like to make today?
Below please find a link to a meditation to help with your intuition. And may all peaceful and prosperous environments flow to you forever.
We welcome your comments and feedback. Let us know if we are sharing the type of tools and information you are interested in. Thanks for joining us.
www.dasvandh.sikhdharma.org ~ dasvandh@sikhdharma.org
MEDITATION TO RECOGNIZE PROSPERITY WHEN IT COMES TO YOU
Meditation helps you recognize the prosperity when it comes, so you can act on it and immediately respond to the opportunity.
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Evil & God
This is a fictional conversation, nevertheless, it is quite intriguing…
The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God
create everything that exists?
A student bravely replied yes, he did!”
“God created everything?” The professor asked.
“Yes, sir,” the student replied.
The professor answered, “If God created everything, then God created evil
since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who
we are then God is evil.”
The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students
that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, “Can I ask you a question
professor?” “Of course”, replied the professor. The student stood up and
asked, “Professor, does cold exist?”
“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been
cold?” The students snickered at the young man’s question.
The young man replied, “In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the
laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.
Everybody and every object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits
energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter
becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not
exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have too
little heat.
The student continued. “Professor, does darkness exist?”
The professor responded, “Of course it does”.
The student replied, “Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist
either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but
not darkness. In fact we can use Newton’s prism to break white light into
many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot
measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness
and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure
the amount of light present. Isn’t this correct? Darkness is a term used by
man to describe what happens when there is no light present.”
Finally the young man asked the professor. “Sir, does evil exist?”
Now uncertain, the professor responded, “Of course as I have already said.
We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man.
It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. “These
manifestations are nothing else but evil.”
To this the student replied, “Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does
not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like
darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of
God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist
just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man
does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes
when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.”
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