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As we enter into the holiday season and a week primarily centered around gratitude, Tony takes this time to peel back the layers of how we approach gratitude, while keeping a balance with allowing ourselves to feel the tough emotions that come with every day life.

Steps to gratitude:

• Recognition: what are we grateful for and what could we be grateful for; think about what blindspots you may have in your life for the things you could be grateful for
• Appreciation: feeling gratitude takes reflection and helps you to understand why you feel grateful for something
• Acknowledgement: the expression of gratitude

Tony also shares gratitude exercises you can utilize regularly, which has been shown to significantly increase overall happiness, satisfaction, quality of life, and wellbeing. Additionally, practicing gratitude has also been proven to improve our physical health and health enhancing behaviors, such as, eating better and getting better sleep. Join us in this reflection on gratitude and we invite you to practice these gratitude practices:

1. Journaling: write down what you have to be grateful for and why
2. The gratitude visit: think about someone in your life that has done something to benefit your life; write a letter to this person telling them what they did that made your life better, then deliver this letter to them
3. What went well and why exercise: identify at least one thing in the day that went well and why

Happy Thanksgiving and happy gratitude practicing :)

If you have topics you'd like for us to discuss with our community and listeners, leave a comment or contact us at cilncf.org@gmail.com! We'd love to have guests participate with Tony on our Disability Dojos- so if that person is you, reach out and let us know!

For More Information visit: Center For Independent Living of North Central Florida

• 352-378-7474 (Gainesville office)
• 352-368-3788 (Ocala Office)