About gratitude

Life offers us, in the following weeks, one of the best external contexts to remind us about the things that are really important and for which to be grateful. After 2 months of physical, social, mental and emotional isolation, we will be able to meet our family and friends again, we will be able to go out in nature, in the air, in the sun, we will be able to go out on the street without fear of fines, we will be able to resume some of our activities favorites, we will be able to solve part of the postponed medical problems, etc., all of which comply with the new regulations.

What I propose in the next period and recommend to you too is that as you experience these freedoms, be very present and attentive to the joy they bring you, to keep that joy in the focus of attention and consciousness, as much as possible. And also make an act of gratitude, at that moment and strengthened in the evening at bedtime, for the fact that that person exists in your life, that we can have access to nature, that we can go out on the street freely, that we have access to medical assistance, etc.

The experience of the pandemic has shown us that what we perceive in our lives as given or things that come naturally, they are not really like that. The practice of gratitude will help us appreciate everything in our life, as a gift and not as something that belongs to us by itself. The practice of gratitude will train our attention and energy towards the positive things in our lives, managing to defocus from the negative ones. And even more, neuroscience research has shown that the practice of gratitude increases the level of serotonin in the brain, having the same effect as antidepressants.

Let’s use this opportunity that comes out of isolation to practice gratitude and love for what is.