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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk about

gratitude again because it is that important. about gratitude as a way of soothing anxiety even though that's what it does. I also want to talk about gratitude as a way of

living. So gratitude as a way of living.

First and foremost, gratitude is a way of living.

It is a state of being, a way in which you can actually open yourself up and receive good things.

It's a posture, a posture of openness, of receptiveness, and of willingness to receive abundance from the whole world

from our own state we can actually be more receptive.

And when you do receive those very good things,

you instinctively and consistently give thanks.

In other words, gratitude is not a one-time event where you simply say thank you. It's an entire way of being in which we joyfully

receive good things and we give thanks for those good things and we do it in a way that is just a part of us. It's

instinctual and this again just comes from practicing it. The great author and philosopher Ralph Waldo

Emerson put it this way. He said, cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you and to give

thanks continuously and because all things have contributed to your advancement you should include

all things in your gratitude. So that's quite a bit,

but it's an important piece that he brings up that

cultivating the habit, it's a habit,

gratitude is a habit, it's a perpetual way of life and we can make it that way as almost like

breathing with practice. You take in something good and you breathe out gratitude. We receive

and then we're grateful. We receive and then we're grateful.

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