Mini: Gratitude / Spartan MIND with Dr. L

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

With the holidays around the corner, Dr. L reminds us, the practice of gratitude and the importance of giving thanks becomes a part of the season. Gratitude is important because it allows us to shift into the present and observe what it is in the now that we are grateful for. Maintaining a gratitude practice helps to give us space to experience joy and to reflect on some of the more difficult experiences that also bring us wisdom. Work to weave in your own gratitude practice this season - it doesn’t need to be a 20-minute endeavor. A simple observation of what you are thankful for and how it is impacting you will suffice.

LESSONS:
Gratitude allows us to remain present by exercising our ability to be in the here and now.
Remember that we can be thankful for the difficult experiences in our life, not just those that bring us joy. Pulling wisdom and positive impact from failures is just as important.
Identify a person, place, thing, experience, and failure that you are grateful for this season. This will help you move into a gratitude practice.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? It's Dr. L here with Spartan Mind, your chief mind
0:08.9	here at Spartan and today we're talking about gratitude. Yes, it's probably no surprise with
0:14.2	Thanksgiving right around the corner. Gratitude is a topic of conversation and I'm
0:19.1	going to talk a little bit today about why gratitude is important and some of the ways that you can have
0:24.0	gratitude and the gratitude practices that you can implement in your own life.
0:28.0	So why is gratitude important? Well first of all there's a lot of data that shows
0:32.3	that individuals that have a gratitude practice are actually more capable of experiencing joy.
0:38.0	And one of the reasons for that is, is that individuals who have a gratitude practice are able to remain in the present.
0:44.4	They're able to be in the here and now because they're literally reflecting on the things
0:49.0	that they're grateful for in the here and now.
0:51.8	And it's really important for us to do that because we get so wrapped up in future tripping, right?
0:56.3	We get so wrapped up in what's coming up next, what do we have planned in the future,
1:00.7	you know, what goals do we have, you know, a few months from now, and we forget to be present.
1:05.8	We forget to be reflective of our own current feelings in the now.
1:10.6	Having a gratitude practice makes us slow down.
1:13.4	It makes us reflect on how things are right now.
1:17.4	One of the other reasons why a gratitude practice is important
1:20.2	is that gratitude gives us an opportunity and a chance to drop our ego
1:25.0	and be thankful for things that are happening, right?
1:28.0	Be thankful for people, places, things that have been weaved into our life that are either presenting as a struggle
1:35.2	but we can be grateful for that struggle or presenting themselves as positive
1:39.7	aspects that we can learn from that we can heal from, that we can heal from, that can help us connect.
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