In my June column for the Sydney Observer magazine (p.14), I write about cultivating gratitude as an important life skill. We are usually aware of our minds and bodies when we are not feeling well, or when something goes wrong with our day. That is, we are more focused on negatives. I encourage you to practise gratitude for simple joys which we may take for granted:
· Our health - to simply appreciate being alive and breathing - a “gratitude meditation” which can be practised by the whole family daily and
· An uneventful/neutral day-If we are mindful that anything could have happened in 24 hours - we can appreciate when our day ends well and nothing dramatic happened. I call this meditation “Grateful for everything and nothing meditation.”
I believe that continually wrapping ourselves with a sense of gratefulness for simple happenings is a powerful contributor to good mental health and a positive attitude. There are no expenses involved and no negative side effect to this sense of calm awareness.
For the full article, see Sydney Observer (June issue, '25, p.14)
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