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    The Gratitude Power Workbook: Transform Fear into Courage, Anger into Forgiveness, Isolation into Belonging
    The Gratitude Power Workbook: Transform Fear into Courage, Anger into Forgiveness, Isolation into Belonging
    The Gratitude Power Workbook: Transform Fear into Courage, Anger into Forgiveness, Isolation into Belonging
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    The Gratitude Power Workbook: Transform Fear into Courage, Anger into Forgiveness, Isolation into Belonging

    By Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons

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    Mary Beth Sammons and Nina Lesowitz have received hundreds of thank you emails and letters from readers whose lives they have touched and helped — spiritual seekers, teachers, business people, cancer patients, parents, the newly bereaved, athletes, and many others. Building upon the foundational wisdom of the bestselling Living Life as a Thank You Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons have developed a workbook filled with life-changing practices and encouraging advice to take readers through a process of self-transformation and personal growth. The workbook-style format not only provides readers with tried and true thank you techniques and practices, but also allows them to take part in creating their own. The act and power of gratitude has a direct effect on our lives on a physical, spiritual, mental and emotional level. Studies have shown that living life with appreciation leads to a greater sense of well-being and happiness. The secret to a happy and fulfilled life may rely on focusing on all the good, rather than what is lacking or not going well at the moment. The Thank You Power Workbook is a toolkit for this transformation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherViva Editions
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9781573446709
    The Gratitude Power Workbook: Transform Fear into Courage, Anger into Forgiveness, Isolation into Belonging
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    Nina Lesowitz

    Nina Lesowitz has over fifteen years experience orchestrating parties for corporations and organizations throughout northern California. She has planned special events on behalf of hotels, restaurants, medical centers, architectural firms, book publishing companies, and nonprofit organizations.Mary Beth Sammons is an award-winning journalist and women's issues columnist whose work appears frequently in Family Circle, the Chicago Tribune's lifestyle section, and leading consumer women's magazines. She is currently the "Finding You" editor for www.BettyConfidential.com and writes for various health and business publications. As an editorial vicepresident, Mary Beth launched the editorial departments of the largest consumer health online Web site--RevolutionHealth.com and its subsidiary, CarePages.com, for which she writes separate blogs. In addition, she is currently working with the Stanford Research Institute as editorial director of a storytelling project focused on consumer health and wellness. Mary Beth specializes in stories that inspire ordinary people to do extraordinary things from a place deep in their hearts. She has written six books in the women's self-help and mind/body/health field including, We Carry Each Other: Getting Through Life's Toughest Times (Conari Press, 2007). She lives in Chicago's suburbs with her three children.

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    The Gratitude Power Workbook - Nina Lesowitz

    Introduction

    LIVING LIFE AS A THANK-YOU

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    Are you tired of walking around with a hole in your heart? Do you need more inspiration? Studies show—and experts counsel—that gratitude is a key component of our own happiness. People who are grateful about events and experiences from the past, who celebrate the triumphs instead of focusing on the losses or disappointments, tend to be more satisfied in the present. In her popular book The Secret, Rhonda Byrne writes, "With all that I have read and all that I have experienced in my own life using The Secret, the power of gratitude stands above everything else. If you do only one thing with the knowledge of the book, use gratitude until it becomes your way of life."

    The recent buzz surrounding the power of gratitude is overwhelmingly positive. Jeffrey Zaslow, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, recently wrote that there may be a positive by-product of the troubled economic times that followed the 2008 stock market dive: a decrease in the urge to complain. People who still have jobs are finding reasons to be appreciative. It feels unseemly to complain about not getting a raise when your neighbor is unemployed, he wrote. Homeowners are unhappy that home values have fallen, but it’s a relief to avoid foreclosure.

    Indeed, in these times of economic woe, gratitude is popping up everywhere. Turn on the TV. We listened as a career coach on The Today Show advised job seekers to put the words Thank you in their job search tool kits, declaring that the key to distinguishing oneself from the masses is to send a thank-you note. Click onto Facebook and check out the gratitude groups, where hundreds of people log on each day to give thanks for everything from the sun rising that morning to their neighborhood dog parks. Cathy, of Greenville, South Carolina, wrote, I am grateful for a bark park to take my dog-children to, so I picked up extra poop and trash this morning. Mary from Philadelphia wrote, I am so grateful for the beautiful snow outside.

    Gratitude floats our boats and moves us to do all kinds of things inspired by joy. Gratitude can help us transform our fears into courage, our anger into forgiveness, our isolation into belonging and another’s pain into healing. Saying Thank you every day will create feelings of love, compassion, and hope.

    But the fact is, the art of living—for that is what we speak about when we speak of gratitude—isn’t something that comes naturally to most people. Most of us need to work intentionally to increase the intensity, duration, and frequency of positive, grateful feelings—a daunting challenge indeed. But fear not, this workbook is here to help! Inside we have provided you with mindful meditations, hands-on exercises, profound practices, inspiring quotations, space for writing, thought-provoking questions, and even positive power tools that will help you build a more grateful life.

    After the publication of Living Life as a Thank You, we were surprised and heartened by the strong and immediate response to the book. It seemed that by writing about how we turned our lives around with the power of gratitude, we touched upon a great need. We’ve received hundreds of notes and e-mails from readers who expressed a deep gratitude for the book and its profound, practical advice. In an effort to fill this need to live a more fulfilling life through the power of gratitude, we have put together this workbook to help readers with the practical side of living gratefully, offering a strategic plan for infusing our daily lives with gratitude.

    You might want to think of this workbook as a tool kit for personal transformation. No matter where you are on your life’s journey, you can open this workbook to find inspiration, ideas for easy change, and exercises that will help you cultivate a more grateful, or perhaps greatful, life. The workbook—at times sobering and at times challenging—will lead you to do the inner work required to grow and transform as a person, giving you pause and cause to explore the depths of your being. The questions, exercises, and meditations have been road tested by us, and we can tell you they will open up your life and allow you to let gratitude in. These practices do require you to do some thinking and some changing, and the results are very much worth the effort. We have also designed this workbook in such a way that you can use it in a group; the group guide is at the end of the book.

    We know what it can be like when living seems to be just another item on your to-do list, and you find yourself struggling to incorporate positive daily practices into your life. But by taking just five minutes a day with this workbook, engaging the practices, meditations, exercises, and questions offered here, you’ll find yourself moving toward a happier and more fulfilling life.

    Imagine living as if each day were a gift. Imagine that everywhere you went people smiled and said, Thank you, and you in turn were filled with joy and gratitude from the moment you woke up until you hit the pillow at night, your mind still and calm. Just imagine, a world without grumbling, a world where everyone is happy and grateful for where and who they are. Well, this is just the world we all hope to inhabit, and with help from this workbook, we’ll all be a few steps closer.

    With great-fullness,

    Nina and Mary Beth

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    THANK-YOU POWER: Your Well-Being

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    Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.

    —PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN

    We are living in groundbreaking, defining times. And quite naturally, with such moments of change and uncertainty comes the tendency to question how we will navigate the unknown. But with the promise of the new on the horizon, this an ideal time to reevaluate your own life and the spirit with which you face these challenges and bumps in the road.

    We have come to learn that of all the tools we use to overcome these bumps—depression, anxiety, negativity, and physical or emotional illness—gratitude is the most effective (and the easiest!) method. Just as if you are

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