Please don’t misunderstand. Gratitude, and the cultivation of gratitude, are wonderful.
What I am asking is whether there are ways in which gratitude, or messaging about gratitude, or the cultivation of gratitude, can go wrong?
How can gratitude go wrong? Have you ever experienced or seen this?
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Interesting,🧐
I can’t say I have; but i assume our perception of gratitude plays a major role
Thank you
I think that it can become problematic when someone else is trying to tell you what you should be grateful for. Gratitude needs to be individual and stem from the path each of us is travelling. Messages about gratitude about this time of year and might sometimes read as unconscious bias, passive aggressive manipulation, or point out ways in which we already feel disconnected with the mainstream.
Thanks, Andy, that seems like a great point. Are there any particular instances you can think of of this kind of messaging about gratitude?
Your question is interesting and my idea about it is that gratitude cannot go wrong if you are grateful for the small things that life gives you. And you shall also be grateful to be more or less healthy, to have a roof, food and all the others things we take for granted.
Thanks Cristiana, I appreciate that focus on life’s little things. Too easily overlooked!
Expressing gratitude is tuning into the frequency of Love and Light — frequency where you came from. Illusions of the mind that allow distortions leading one to questioning whether gratitude is good or bad is that of doubt. When you have faith that gratitude leads only to good, it will be so. When you believe it can go either way, it becomes one’s reality.
Hmmm
It’s interesting that you mentioned this. I think I would like to think this through!