Show Notes
Transcript for Ep 15
Welcome to Be True, Be Happy, Be Yourself show, I'm Yuki Miyaki. In this episode, I will be sharing with you my personal story and the power of Gratitude.
The word gratitude often appears in our daily conversations, but do we really understand the meaning of this term?
The theme I want to share with you today is related to the word gratitude. Have you heard of the power of gratitude?
I remember once, I went to a very special physical and mental healing course. Halfway through the 2 days and 1 night course, the teacher told us that there was good news to share with us. What was the good news? We are all going to fast. Frankly speaking, when the teacher said this, I thought he was joking. However, we really had no dinner. I remember, I felt like I was starving to death. We didn’t had breakfast the other day but I didn’t feel much as my body is slowly adapting it . Then, For lunch, we were only given a small portion of salad.
I remember there were two slices of lettuce, half an egg, two slices of cucumber and cherry tomatoes. By the way, there are only 3 to 5 drops of sesame sauce.
The teacher made a request that we must finish the salad at 45 minutes. We should not eat it lesser or more than 45 minutes. I was curious, why? Later, I discovered that the teacher wanted to use a fasting and eating mode to let us realize what it means to be living at the moment. Taste and feel every ingredient in the salad, the nourishment that it brings to us. Through the Hegen activity, the teacher's intention is profound. He makes us understand that every bit of life seems to be taken for granted, but it is actually a blessing. Regardless of the feelings in the body or in the heart, we have experienced many times that we are living with our minds and not feeling life with our hearts.
At that moment, I deeply realized that being grateful for every present experience is a very happy and abundant process. In addition, when I was travelling in Nepal.
My husband and I went hiking on a mountain. Throughout the journey I saw many locals. Although they may be living a simple life but they are genuine. All of them have pure and compassionate smiles on their faces, which made me felt life is beautiful if you cherish it.
Even though it consumes a lot of energy during the journey, our diet is very simple.
There weren’t any excess thoughts about food. We ate to gain energy so we can continue the journey. We had faced many difficulties and challenges. For me, as I had no experience in mountaineering at all, the journey of climbing is very difficult, but every time I encountered a difficulty, when I overcome it, it reminds me of me encountering difficulties in life. Passing through the mountain is difficult as every section of the road is rugged and difficult, there will always be an exit, and the only way to reach the exit is to persist.
After the ten-days and nine-nights climbing journey, when I returned to the hotel, I thought a bit and found out from the bottom of my heart that there are many things in life that we are grateful for. And because of the power of gratitude, I succeeded in bringing myself down the mountain.
Edit the first sentence These were just two of the things that made me deeply appreciate the meaning of gratitude. When facing life with gratitude, we will find that things will be different.
Next, everyone can try to follow my approach and learn to be a person who knows how to live a grateful life and become a master of the power of gratitude.
1. Learn to be grateful for everything in life:
I am grateful for my body, I am grateful for the love that God has given me, I am grateful for everything I say, smell, and hear, and I am grateful for everything that comes to me.
2. Develop gratitude into a habit:
I think gratitude is a habit. When you slowly train yourself to develop this habit, everything you see will start from this "grateful" habit.
3. Learn to cherish every moment: Thanksgiving not only makes our lives more happy, but also allows us to cherish every moment, and happiness becomes much simpler. Whether things are good or bad, when things happen to us, there must be a reason for it. Try to be grateful for the incident, because this is an opportunity for us to see the truth of life and make us a better version of ourselves.
Have you discovered that as we grew up, we only looked at the "black spots" of our life? Seeing only what we did not have, and only what we were missing. In fact, we are not that bad, but we never really cherish what we have. When you learn to be grateful, you will naturally get the wisdom and power of gratitude.
Try it, you will be surprised that this does not require any magic or power, all you have to do is start to learn how to be grateful.
I hope that by sharing my story, will inspire you have the courage get a change and create abundance life.
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I look forward to seeing you in my next episode where I will be sharing with you more stories about my life and how you can Be True, Be Happy and Be Yourself!