{"id":805,"date":"2012-10-09T15:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsdesireintlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2017-02-28T18:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:56:14","slug":"your-hearts-desire-thought-of-the-day-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/your-hearts-desire-thought-of-the-day-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Heart’s Desire Thought of the Day: Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0by Gladys Diaz<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Feeling gratitude and note expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

~ William Arthur Ward<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the first exercises I give women who I coach is to find 3 reasons to thank their spouse or boyfriend every day for a week.\u00a0 If they are single, then they are to express gratitude at least 3 times per day.\u00a0 Sometimes, particularly with women who are struggling in their marriages, you would think that I was asking them to pull out their own wisdom tooth!<\/p>\n

\u201cThree thank-you\u2019s a day? I can\u2019t even think of one!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

To which I answer, \u201cGreat!\u00a0 Then create <\/strong>three opportunities per day!\u201d<\/em> (Insert wicked smile.)<\/p>\n

Why do I ask a woman who is experiencing trouble with her husband to thank him?\u00a0 Am I \u201ctaking his side\u201d or asking her to ignore the issues they are experiencing? No.\u00a0 I\u2019m simply trying to help her change her focus\u2026To shine the spotlight on what is working<\/em>\u2026Helping her see the little things that sometimes get clouded out by complaints, unmet expectations, and fear.<\/p>\n

Usually, something miraculous happens!\u00a0 At the end of the week, when we have our next session, rather than wanting to spend the time telling me about all<\/em> of the things he isn\u2019t doing right (or not well enough), she can\u2019t wait to tell me about all of the things she noticed! The \u201cnew things\u201d he started doing (some of them aren\u2019t new at all \u2013 she just sees them now!), and how she is beginning to see and feel \u201ca shift\u201d in the relationship.\u00a0 All of a sudden, there is hope<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 And where there is hope, anything <\/em>is possible!<\/p>\n

Gratitude has the power to transform our perception of people, situations, and things.\u00a0 If you bring gratitude to your relationship, you begin to experience that, while, yes, there may still be some things we need to work on, there are also things that are working.\u00a0 And, in the space of appreciation we can begin love and honor one another again, which can serve to inspire us to make the changes we each need to make.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in a relationship, what are three things for which you grateful to your boyfriend\/spouse.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not in a relationship yet<\/em>, what are 3 things for which you are thankful.<\/p>\n

Questions? Comments? We love to hear from you!<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Incognita No de Plume<\/a> \u00a0via photopin.com<\/a> cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0by Gladys Diaz “Feeling gratitude and note expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.\u201d ~ William Arthur Ward One of the first exercises I give women who I coach is to find 3 reasons to thank their spouse or boyfriend every day for a week.\u00a0 If they are single, then they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,9,13,16,17,21,22,23],"tags":[31,47,54,57,63,70,88,90],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-2","category-gratitude-2","category-hdi-blog","category-intimacy-2","category-love-2","category-marriage","category-relationship","category-relationship-advice","category-romance","tag-advice","tag-dating","tag-gratitude","tag-hearts-desire-international","tag-intimacy","tag-marriage-2","tag-relationships","tag-romance-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}