AUTHOR: LAURIE PINKINS
brighter days ahead
Learn ways to brighten your day to overcome the fatigue of healing through gratitude.
Life has many beautiful things to be grateful for, so why would you waste your days dwelling on negativity? You may be fatigued in the healing process from trauma, because creating new belief systems, thought patterns, and healthy coping skills can be exhausting. The exhaustion is due to life circumstances resisting your change. However, you can overcome this exhaustion by embracing your healing process and looking for the brighter side things in life. In this article, we will discuss how to overcome the fatigue of healing through gratitude.
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isaiah 40:31 KJV
How to Being Grateful Heals You
Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. It has significant impacts on your mental and physical health. Studies show being a grateful person can literally change your brain. When you show gratitude your brain releases dopamine and serotonin hormones. These neurotransmitter hormones are responsible for our feel good emotions and when released they regulate the stress hormone. In addition, the brain releases toxic emotions from the brain. As a result, you will experience improved sleep, reduced pain, and an overall enhanced positive mood. These improvements will also enable you to overcome the fatigue of healing, because your brain will become rewired.
“Glory and honour are in HIS presence; strength and gladness are in
HIS place."
1 Chronicles 16:27 KJV
Forms of Gratitude
Saying thank you
A simple and polite expression used to acknowledge a kind gesture from another person.
giving a gift
Willingly giving something without the expectation of repayment.
giving compliments
A statement of praise or admiration to politely congratulate someone.
showing appreciation
Recognition with enjoyment for someone else’s good qualities or deeds.
offering help
Look for opportunities to do something by offering your abilities to make someone else’s life easier.
active listening
Make an effort to give your attention in a conversation, while reserving your need to respond or provide feedback.
Positive Thinking with Scriptures of the Bible
Your thoughts and words are powerful. Thoughts turn into words, and words to turn into your actions. When healing from trauma, it is imperative to create new belief systems and thought patterns. You may not realize you are repeating dysfunctional cycles due to the way you think and speak. Oftentimes, negative thinking is reinforced when you remain in unhealed environments. You cannot keep speaking or thinking the same way and expect different results. It is imperative for you to learn a new and positive thought pattern. Proverbs 18:21, states, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” This means whatever you speak is actively creating your life. Gratitude partnered with positive thinking cultivates cognitive restructuring and will change your world view. Your brain will be rewired to think positively and focus on gratitude. Practicing daily affirmations with scriptures of the Holy Bible is a powerful combination for cognitive restructuring. You will begin to think more positively. In addition, you will become more grateful as you speak the scriptures of the Bible.
GLADNESS AFFIRMATIONS
I am glad
i am growing
i am joyful
i am cheerful
i am blissful
i am grateful
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Your brain can be rewired to think positively & focus on gratitude.
Pair your daily affirmations with scriptures of the Bible.
Steps to Become a Grateful Person
Showing gratitude is a lifestyle. Your life will begin to change for the better when you cultivate an attitude toward life where you focus on positive thinking, reading the scriptures of the Bible, being glad, and show gratitude. The steps to become a grateful person require you to embrace gladness and joy. First, let go of the negativity. You cannot be a negative and grateful person at the same time. Next, look for the brighter side of life. Don’t allow the pain from the past to hinder your ability to see the brighter side of things. Then, always find a reason to smile and be happy. Go out of your way to find the positive in each day. Also, thank GOD for all things. GOD inhabits the praise of HIS people. HIS presence will fill your heart with peace which surpasses all understanding when you thank HIM in all circumstances. Next, cultivate a daily prayer life. GOD wants to hear from you on a daily basis, not just when you are feeling fatigued or exhausted. Come to GOD as a Father and friend when you speak to HIM in prayer. You will begin to develop a praying lifestyle. Which in turn will result in you becoming a grateful person and changing your entire life to one of gratitude. Once being grateful becomes a lifestyle, you will not have room to focus on anything other than ways to show your gratitude in GOD toward others.
Scriptures for Gladness
“Serve the LORD with gladness: come before HIS presence with singing.” Psalm 100:2 KJV
There is power in speaking and meditating on the scriptures of the Bible daily.
Read, speak, and meditate on these scriptures for gladness.
Next Steps
Finding support from a therapist, life coach, trusted friend, or support group that can help you to build your gratitude.
Use the following steps to become a grateful person:
- Gratitude is a lifestyle
- Let go of negative thinking
- Daily look for the brighter side of life
- Thank GOD for all things
- Develop a lifestyle of prayer
- Show different forms of gratitude
Read, speak, and meditate on the scriptures of the Bible for gladness. King James Version
1 Chronicles 16:27- “Glory and honour are in HIS presence; strength and gladness are in HIS place.”
Psalm 30:11- “Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;”
Psalm 105:43-“And HE brought forth HIS people with joy, and HIS chosen with gladness:”
Psalm 100:2-“Serve the LORD with gladness: come before His presence with singing.”
Isaiah 35:10-“And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
Luke 1:14-“And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at HIS birth.”
Hebrews 1:9-“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore GOD, even thy GOD, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”
Psalm 4:7-“Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.”
Psalm 45:7-“Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”
Psalm 97:11-“Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.”
Are you having feelings of fatigue or exhaustion? Want to transform your life today? Get your free consultation with a Life Transformation coach to start the journey to build your gratitude.
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:9 KJV
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