A speaker shares how their mother used gratitude to move through grief, and argues that forgiveness and perspective help attract peace even when you're suffering. The talk explores practicing gratitude during loss and sadness.
How do we be grateful when we're in suffering or sadness or loss? I know it's really hard, but there's. I guess there's like, there's like suffering, sadness and loss that continues in that way. Or there's suffering with gratitude and the suffering gets easier. Right. Or there's sadness with gratitude and the sadness begins to lift. Or the loss with gratitude. I know because of. My mother was so grief stricken with my father having died. And what brought my mother right out of it was gratitude. She was just so grateful that they got to have all of the years together that they had. That they had five children. There are five of us and they had five children that they had an incredible life that they loved. They loved each other, was love at first sight. And they loved and adored each other until the last moment. And she was so glad that he didn't suffer her. She just found so many things to be grateful for. And this was the love of her life. But from doing that gratitude, she just lifted herself up and began to live a new life, you know, so. So what happened was she reduced the, you know, reduced the pain. The pain and the grief because eventually it will lessen, but she. And she just felt absolute love for everything. That I remember her saying to me, she's not alive now, but I remember her saying to me, you know, I've had such a blessed life. I was like, wow, you know, you went through a war, you went through, you know, they didn't have like. I came from very humble beginnings that my parents did not have much. And yet she saw her life as rich and blessed. Wow. You know, that's beautiful, isn't it? A lot of it is perspective, you know, and if we hold on to resentment or lack of forgiveness in our life. Yeah. Are we able to manifest and attract beautiful things? If we hold on to resentment and anger and don't forgive, I think we can still. Because we're attracting every day. So I think we can still attract things. But will those things bring us peace and happiness? Not when your heart is full of resentment. Because if, if you're full of resentment, you. What you will attract is more people, circumstances and events that will cause resentment. Oh, my gosh.
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