Every day for the month of November I will post something for which I am grateful. I invite you to join me in this exercise privately or by leaving a comment to share with others. Please share this blog with others and invite them to share this month long practice.
When we live from a place of gratitude within, our energy and being shift, neurobiologists believe it actually rewires the brain. Gratitude regulates the sympathetic nervous system that activates our anxiety response. By living from a place of gratitude we strengthen the mind/body connection. Gratitude causes a physiological response that can help relieve stress and pain, improve health over time and lighten depression.
In short, practicing gratitude can make us kinder more peaceful people.
Today I am grateful for a larger than usual migration of monarch butterflies. This is a hopeful sign in spite of our ongoing degradation of the environment. The monarch butterfly is the only butterfly known to make a two-way migration as birds do. Monarchs travel south to the hills of Mexico and southern California to winter over.
What are you grateful for today?
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The Irreverent Reverend 
Today I am grateful for the firefighters, both for those that tackle the individual home or business, and even more so for those that fight so hard to contain the wildfires that consume everything in their path .
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Today I am grateful for you, Pat, for inspiring me to to ponder those things for which I am grateful.
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This morning I am grateful for all the un-raked leaves and for the golden leaves still clinging to the magnolia tree and for the gilded ferns and for this word from you—
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