Tag: positive choice

Unexpressed

Today I heard someone say, “Unexpressed gratitude is interpreted as entitlement or even ingratitude.”

So I’m curious about this. The topic was to do with ongoing, close relationships where people sometimes get lazy in communicating what they appreciate about one another.

Does it apply in the broader scope of relating? Something to consider…

I’m taking this as a reminder to write out my thanks for the wonderful experiences (no matter how small) over the holiday season! 💛

Every genuine thank you lifts the spirt of another. It’s absolutely worth your time.

Rising

Words from Carl Jung, 20th century analytical psychologist, in support of learning to shift and widen your focus away from what you don’t want toward what you do want to experience:

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble… They can never be solved, but only outgrown… This “outgrowing,” as I formally called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person’s horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.”

What new interest could be on the horizon for you?

Cherish

“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” – Unknown

You may never know what it means to another person when you take a moment to highlight something about them you appreciate or if you bestow an act of kindness on them. You may or may not see what another perceives as a difficulty, but even so you can be a bearer of kindness.

How can the connections you cherish be lifted by spotting the flowers?

Simple

One thing to ask yourself as you go through the next days and make choices about your activities:

Will this be nourishing to me or to someone else ?

That is not to compare and suggest that one of those is in greater standing than the other, but simply to check in with yourself and notice your choices. Is the next thing you’re going to choose nourishing in some way to someone? If the answer is no and you proceed, how does that unfold? If the answer is yes and you proceed, how does that unfold?

Let yourself notice how nourishing choices show up in your life.