The word thankful comes from the Old English þancful meaning satisfied and grateful. The annual US holiday of Thanksgiving was codified under President Lincoln in 1863 in response to the Union victory at Gettysburg.
This annual holiday is a great chance to help us practice Thankful feelings. Thankful feelings are the opposite of skeptical and critical feelings on FW 2.0. So, on a practical level, practicing thankful feelings helps get us away from chronic critical feelings that can lead to stress and tense body sensations.
Body sensations related to the peaceful feeling of thankfulness I think of most is warm feelings in the body, especially in the chest.
As Harvard Medical School points out, we also know that practicing gratefulness (which I consider a synonym for thankfulness) is good for your mind. Click here to see some ways to cultivate thankful feelings from the Harvard Health Publishing blog.
I hope and pray you find thankful feelings on Thanksgiving and all the rest of the year! This Thanksgiving week, I am especially thankful to everyone who has helped and inspired me to get Feelings Wheel 2.0 done. Thank you for reading this blog!
