"The benefits of practicing gratitude are nearly endless. People who regularly practice gratitude by taking time to notice and reflect upon the things they're thankful for experience
more positive emotions, feel more alive, sleep better,
more positive emotions, feel more alive, sleep better,
express more compassion and kindness, and even have stronger immune systems."
I've wanted to keep a gratitude journal since reading Ann Voskamp's excellent book 'One Thousand Gifts' but I'm not great at keeping 'proper' journals or diaries, or calendars even ;) But I find a challenge is a great boost to creativity so I was keen to join in with Bernice's challenge to practise gratitude for 21 days in May.
This is a fabulous blog with, amongst other things, quotes, videos, songs and a creative technique to try each day. I am only up to day 2: be positive, but that's ok because today's words are 'be kind to yourself' and I've had a minor gynae op so haven't been able to do much, and there's really no pressure to get the journal pages completed (plus you get the weekends as catch up time!)
I'm using a diary that I bought at the start of the academic year and have set aside the May pages to write in every day. I'm using the other pages as journal pages.
The creative challenge for day 2 was to use bubble wrap to print with. For me, 'being positive' is about looking at the good things in life so I cut my bubble wrap into cloud shapes and adapted the traditional 'silver lining' saying!
It's not easy to see but I added some silver stitching to the white stitching around the cloud. [That's all I managed to do today, I now have my feet back up!! I don't think journal pages have ever taken me so long!]
Stampotique Stamps used:
