Gratitude in Everyday Life

Gratitude in everyday life through mindfulness is to:

• Slow down.

• Talk less.

• Reduce multi-tasking. 
  Do one thing at a time.

• Focus on your breath while doing daily activities.

• Relax into a feeling of calm presence with other people.

• Use routine events --such as phone ringing, going to the bathe or drinking water-- as "temple bells" to return you to a sense of centered-ness.

• At meals, take a moment to reflect on where your food came from.  For example, if you were focusing on the wheat in a slice of bread, you could imagine it growing in the fields and being
  harvested, threshed,
  stored, ground into flour, baked into loaves, and shipped to a market, all before arriving on your plate.  You can go pretty far with this in just a few seconds.

Simplify your life, give up lesser pleasure for greater ones.

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