Gratitude is like offering your mental health a big bowl of nutritional greens. You're giving yourself everything you really need. Cultivating the right attitude and thoughts.
When someone says 'be grateful for what you have' it can either be taken positively or negatively. I found that naming what I am grateful for isn't enough, it doesn't help my mind shift into gratitude as a way of living, an embodiment. Instead I found that hindsight was the most effective way to practice gratitude.
In acknowledging where I was, the hardships experienced as well as the good times, I constantly became grateful. Appreciative of surviving, because as we all know surviving is sometimes all we can do. This is okay. My mental health is elevated into a dimension of contentment, light and joy regarding here and now.
Your circumstance may remain the same for a season but your mind is not limited to that circumstance.
Ways you can exercise gratitude
1. Look back
2. Appreciate what you have access to right now
3. Remember to say thank you for what you are receiving/give thanks
4. Savour moments and experiences, be present
5. Keep a gratitude journal
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