Blog-a-thon Day #4

The fourth day of every month is a special day. TODAY, the fourth day of October,, is extra special. Today marks SIX months of good health and well being for Kyle. Today marks SIX months of Kyle living cycle free! If you've followed the blog you know that Kyle struggled for almost two years with severe, debilitating monthly cycles which lasted ten days. It was quite a journey finding something to help. We were very grateful to find the vitamin Agape with its super charge of methylated folate and other good stuff. (See previous blog post AGAPE.) The results have been nothing short of miraculous.

And here we are, SIX months later, still celebrating. For the first month or so after the cycles stopped, when we weren't even certain they had stopped, I decided to see each extra cycle free day as a gift. Hmmm, wouldn't that be a great way to see each day on this earth anyway? Well, yes, but.... it's easy to get complacent.

That's why I've come back to basics once again today. It doesn't get much more basic than an attitude of gratitude. But for some reason, I find it easy to allow that attitude to slip away. I get busy and distracted. I become mindless rather than mindful, unconscious rather than aware. I focus on what's lacking rather than what is. I take things and people for granted.   Maybe you can relate to some of these.

Today in celebration, I would like to come back to a mindful, conscious place of gratitude. Seeing Kyle's peaceful face this morning was truly a gift. (As an added bonus, his  face wearing his new glasses!-more about that in a future blog). And I told him so. But later, I forgot to thank my daughter, who was kind enough to call and tell me how great he looked. I love those phone calls. They brighten my day instantly.

The best way to make gratitude more tangible, is to take some sort of action. This steps it up a notch beyond something you are feeling or thinking in your mind. Expressing gratitude to another helps the good feelings multiply. I'm not always sure exactly what Kyle understands and on what level, but I believe the message and feelings get through even if some of the exact words slip by.

As the author of "Breathe", the book packed with all those Oxygen-Rich Tools for living well, I am embarrassed to confess that my gratitude journal has a pretty good layer of dust on its cover. Making those lists of things I am grateful for, appreciate, love about my day, and love about  people in my life is very powerful.

In celebration of SIX months today, I invite you to join me in being more mindful to gratitude and finding a way to make it tangible.

Quotacious:

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."

~~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh