20/12/2025
Day 20 of my Mental Wellbeing December Advent Calendar
* Gratitude *
Writing down what you’re grateful for, in your life is actually an important exercise to do. It doesn’t really matter if it’s daily, weekly, or even monthly, the key is consistency, but if you’re struggling in your life the more often the better.
Here’s why, it has a profound mental purpose, and effect. It allows you to realise the good things in your life that are often take for granted and dismiss. For instance “I’m grateful for a roof over my head”.
For those, that are struggling right now, that potentially may think that you have nothing in life to be grateful for, a gratitude journal is vital to help change your mindset.
You simply start off small. I am grateful for the oxygen I breathe, I am grateful for the food in my belly, and once you start your realise it can build and build and build. The more you write down the more you will have to be grateful for especially starting with the simple things in life..
Professionally I work with the subconscious mind the creative imaginative and emotional part of your minds thinking, and the art of writing gratitudes speakers directly to that part in appreciation, in basic terms your thanking your own mind for the good things you have in life, I think that could be thought of as positive reinforcement! And in child psychology that initiates more positive behaviour, so conversely in this case the more positive things to be grateful for.
Tomorrow I will talk about gratitudes partner, and how that should be done and what that means so stay tuned.
Today “im very grateful for the amazing friends in my life, especially the ones I will be spending today with in celabration” “I’m grateful for the love and kindness they give me”