Who would you be without gratitude?  I can’t imagine who I would be.  Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we have as humans.  It’s the best part of who we are.  It can define us.

Gratitude comes from our heart.  It’s not a mental thought or concept.  It’s a heart-felt feeling that carries very powerful energy which empowers us.  I don’t see it as a strategy or tool.  It is genuinely heart-felt;  it is a way of life.

Reflect on the amazing coincidences that have happened in your life.  If I hadn’t moved to Japan, met a psychologist from New York, moved to Thailand, had lunch with a pal working in Cambodia, I never would have met our youngest daughter.  The orchestration of life is beyond anything we can imagine or control.  What coincidences have deeply moved you?  There is so much to be grateful for!

And then there is the whole playground of what we take for granted:  walking, breathing, roofs over our heads, freedom, cars, clothes, and so on.

To live a life of gratitude is the healthiest, most complete life I can imagine.  To see, hear, smell, and touch from a place of gratitude creates a very rich life.  Gratitude opens our hearts.  It is the connective tissue to one another and our lives.

Gratitude is healing, it is connective, it is perspective, it is heart, it is health, it is happiness. I invite you to live a life of gratitude.