Gratitude Healing
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Do good, be good and you'll have good.
Grandma Sarah Clara Bortin
A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude
Elie Wiesel
Gratitude is not only the greatest of all the virtues, but the parent of all the others
Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie ~
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. (Matthew)
~ Bible ~
There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
~ Ralph H. Blum ~
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us."
~ Joan Borysenko ~
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend . . . when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.
~ Nicholas Cage ~
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
~ Elizabeth Carter ~
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
~ Northrup Christiane ~
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones B with ingratitude.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
~ Johannes A. Gaertner ~
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
~ Baltasar Gracian ~
True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him.
~ George R. Hendrick ~
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Gratitude Healing
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Monte J. Meldman M.D. is a board certified psychiatrist who has specialized in the treatment of people with addictions. He has treated thousands of alcoholics, drug addicts, and obese people in many different settings – in hospital programs, in the office, in individual therapy, and in groups. Gratitude is a central theme in recovering from addictions and Dr. Meldman explores gratitude as a healing tool in detail in this book. Gratitude is both a feeling and a doing, becoming obligated and paying back for what you have been given. Gratitude healing is intended to help people transition from the ingrate state into the attitude of gratitude that is typical of a recovering person. If you work on the book with Doctor Monte you will install a gratitude button on your person that you can use whenever you need to transition from the ingrate state to the mood of gratitude. Dr. Meldman trained in psychiatry at Cincinnati General Hospital. He has written four other books and over one hundred articles published in peer reviewed articles. He feels gratitude much of the time and when he slips into the ingrate state he works on Gratitude Healing to restore his attitude of gratitude and bring that to others in his practice and life.