Be grateful. Count your blessings. Give thanks. But why? In the fifth chapter of his book “Seven Habits of Highly Fulfilled People,” Satinder Dhiman, Ph.D., Ed.D, expounds upon the mechanisms of gratefulness and its greater connection to the enlivening the human experience.
One of the core needs that soul-searchers identify is the desire to be connected to others and to feel loved. Dhiman notes that, according to gratitude researchers and university professors Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, those who feel grateful are more likely to feel loved. Unhappy with your circumstances? Feeling lonely? Make it a point to cultivate a spirit of thankfulness, intently cherishing the goodness of what life has to offer. Dhiman advises to recognize the positive in life and then notice how that inner shift toward cherishing goodness reflects itself in reality. Your outlook will change. Your heart will be lighter and more open to sense and accept love from the world around you.
Dhiman encourages readers to simplify gratefulness, lauding the necessity to be deeply appreciative for something each one of us already has – human life.
Dhiman continues:
We will be gravely remiss if we devalue this infinitely precious human birth and let it slide by for the accomplishment of transient goals and ephemeral desires. [emphasis added] Our human life is fulfilled only if we apply it to obtain self-knowledge and attain supreme happiness of enlightened living, characterized by pure motivation, unconditional gratitude, altruistic generosity, complete harmlessness, selfless service, constant mindfulness and total acceptance.
Be thankful for your humanity. Recognize the gift of unbounded opportunities for growth and strive to better yourself, always.
Click HERE for an excerpt of Satinder Dhiman’s “Seven Habits of Highly Fulfilled People” to learn more.