5 Game-Changing Practices that will skyrocket Your Gratitude Game | Holistic Happiness Club | EP 70

Discover how to elevate your gratitude routine with these 5 game-changing practices designed to take your gratitude journey to the next level. In this episode of the Holistic Happiness Club, host Akshay Tiwari dives deep into the best gratitude practices that can help you boost your emotional well-being, improve mental health, and transform your life. Whether you're just starting with gratitude or looking to enhance your daily gratitude routine, these powerful techniques will skyrocket your gratitude game and provide lasting benefits for personal growth, happiness, and mindfulness.

What You'll Learn:

• How to avoid gratitude fatigue and keep your practice fresh
• The secret to creating a sustainable and effective gratitude routine
• Targeted gratitude practices for improving health, relationships, and career success
• The importance of contrast and reflection in deepening your gratitude
• Proven techniques for cultivating a deeper sense of gratitude every day

Whether you're searching for ways to incorporate gratitude into your daily routine, looking for personal growth strategies through gratitude, or simply want to know the best practices for practicing gratitude effectively, this episode offers actionable steps that will revolutionize how you approach gratitude.

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Hello and welcome back to another interesting episode of Holistic Happiness Club. So today's episode is about five best practices for a gratitude routine. So this episode is a little bit of extension of the last episode. In the last episode, we discussed about the obstacles that you face when you start your gratitude journey. And even when you don't start your gratitude journey, what are the obstacles? What are the problems that you face? What are the problems that prevents you from feeling grateful on a day to day basis? So that, that is what we discussed in the last episode. But in today's episode, we are going to discuss five best practices for a gratitude routine. Meaning, when you are going to design your gratitude routine, what are the things that you should be keeping in your mind? So a best routine, a great routine, great gratitude routine is the one which avoids all such problems which we discussed in the last episode, but also covers the maximum range of gratitude so that you can get the maximum benefit of practicing gratitude in the shortest amount of time possible. So that is what today's episode is all about. We will dive deep into these five best practices for a gratitude routine. But before starting the episode, I just want to say thank you so much. Thank you so much to each one of you who decided to tune into holistic happiness club. Who decided that you are going to spend next few minutes with me and with holistic happiness club. And a special, special thank you to each one of you who tune into holistic happiness club every single week. It is your investment of time. Whether you are investing the time every single week or just this time, this is the investment that is the fuel of holistic happiness club. That is the motivation that I get to come up with the best kind of content possible to give you the best value of your time invested in holistic happiness club. So thank you so much. Keep supporting, keep motivating me and keep supporting holistic happiness club. Thank you so much. And without further delay, let's dive into the episode. Hi, my name is Akshay Tiwari. I'm holistic happiness coach, author of the book named Usher and the founder of Holistic Happiness Club. Holistic Happiness Club is a place where we talk about happiness in a holistic manner. We understand that happiness is not a single faceted thing, it is a multifaceted thing. So it needs to be looked at and talked about in a holistic manner in a 360 degree perspective. So anything that touches our life is part of our happiness as well. So anything that is part of our life, we talk about that in happiness club. So be it relationship, be it your health, be it your finances, be it your productivity, career, wealth, or anything else that is connected to your life that is connected to your happiness is part of holistic Happiness club as well. More about me and more about holistic Happiness club at the end of the episode. But for now, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode of the day. All right, so let's start the episode of the day five best practices that you should be doing and you should be keeping in your mind when you're designing your gratitude routine so that you can get the maximum benefit in the shortest amount of time possible. So, but before, before we get into those five best practices, I just want to touch upon something that is called targeted application of gratitude. See, the thing is that the application of gratitude is so vast. It is so huge. And there are different dimensions of gratitude. And each one of us might be feeling gratitude, but maybe we are lacking in one of the dimension of the gratitude. So when we design our practices for the gratitude, we should target it towards a life area. Or maybe we should target it to enhance the dimensions of gratitude. So it is like saying that when you start from your home, if you do not have any, any target set, any, any destination set, then you will be wandering forever and you will not reach anywhere. Maybe you will enjoy that wandering as well. That is there, but you will not reach anywhere. You will not achieve anything. So in order to apply gratitude in strategic manner, to get the maximum benefit out of it, you need to target it towards a specific thing. And if you are not targeting it, then also you are going to get so many benefits. As I said, if you are not having any target, when you are coming out of your home, you will be wondering, and chances are that you will enjoy that wonder if you are a nature lover or if you are a lover of the whole creation, in general, you will enjoy that. Gratitude is such thing. So if you do not have any target application, if you do not have any target area in your mind, and if you are just practicing gratitude, still you are going to reap so many benefit, still you are going to enjoy those practices. But it is a little better. Or I would not say better, but in some cases, you would want to target it to some particular thing. So this is what I am talking about. That when you practice, when you design your gratitude routine, target it towards a life area or a dimension of gratitude so that you can reach, reap maximum benefit in that particular direction. So, for example, you are struggling with health or relationship or workplace stress, or your career or your wealth or your business, anything. When you target gratitude in that particular area, then your, then your practices are much more specific in that area, and that area starts improving in the contrast. On the contrary, if you are not targeting it, then maybe in the area in which you are lagging behind, in which you are not able to progress, that area will not receive that much of attention and you will still feel little bit lagged behind. Okay, so it is better to target one area when you are designing your gratitude routine. And after three months or something, maybe six months, once that area starts getting better, then you redesign your gratitude practice. So what that can be, as I said, it can be a life area. It can be health, relationship, workplace, career, business, wealth, money, whatever. All right? And it can be a gratitude dimension also. It can be like you want to improve the feeling of the gratitude in intensity, like how deep you feel the gratitude for some, for some event or for some person and or the span for how long you feel grateful for one particular event or the density. Meaning for how many people you feel grateful for one single event or the frequency, how frequently you feel grateful in the day, because there are so many miracles happening every day. And if we want, we would be grateful maybe every single minute for something or the other. So what you want to increase, in which direction you want to grow? Maybe some people might be feeling great gratitude every single minute for something like. So their frequency is intact, but maybe their intensity is not that much. So they might need to increase the intensity, right. So you need to assess yourself and then accordingly, you need to design your gratitude practice, and you need to target your gratitude practices towards that particular area of improvement. So this is what I wanted to touch before starting the episode. Now, the first thing 1st, 1st best practice of designing your gratitude routine is avoid gratitude fatigue. Yes, gratitude fatigue. What it is, in the last episode, I discussed about adaptation. So because of this adaptation, sometimes gratitude fatigue also takes over. So if you have similar kind of exercise that you are doing every day, over and over, we get adapted to that particular exercise. And that exercise stops, stops giving us the result, because we develop the pattern. We do not feel grateful anymore about those things because we are anticipating all those things. And those things are happening like in an autopilot mode, and we are not able to feel it deeply in our heart. And that's when it, you know, gratitude fatigue kicks in and you stop feeling grateful about those things. So what you can do, you can design different, different kind of exercises, right? That little bit of them I will discuss in this episode also reflect deeply. Meaning if you pick one thing, go as specific as you can in that particular one thing, okay. And maybe do not practice gratitude on a everyday basis, maybe two or three times in a week, that is, that might be enough, right? So that you can decide, I mean, most of these things which I'm going to talk about, these are specifically for beginners. They will give you, they will give the results for people who have been practicing gratitude for years. But it is especially for beginners, so that you do not do these mistakes, so that your journey of gratitude should, is going to be long enough. Okay. So. So that you don't quit in the beginning. Okay. So as I said, avoid gratitude fatigue. And how you avoid gratitude fatigue, mix it up means use variety of exercises of gratitude, take breaks, meaning, you know, you can practice gratitude two to three times a week and reflect deeply. Okay, so these are the things that you can try to avoid gratitude fatigue. Alright, so second best practice is provide contrast in your gratitude. So how do we practice gratitude? We say that I am thankful about this thing, I am thankful about this person, I am thankful about this incident. I am thankful to universe that this event has happened in my life or in my day. This is how we practice gratitude. So we always try to be thankful. It's a good thing. It's no doubt it's a good thing. But our mind is designed something somewhat differently. We need contrast. We need opposite end. Also sometimes in order to measure how good it was or how bad it was, right? So in order to measure how bright something is, we need a dark background. So similarly, you might need to have a contrast in order to feel how grateful you are about a particular event. So how you can provide the contrast. So let's say that you are. Let's say that you are grateful about the technology, about mic, about laptop, about Internet, and that you are able to do so many things with the help of technology. Let's say the technology is not there. It is absent in your life. Then how your life will turn out to be. Imagine that. Imagine a negative scenario. That technology is not there. Mobile phone is not there, laptop is not there. All those apps on which you order food or maybe you book a ride, those are not there. Gps is not there. How your life will be. Imagine that. And then you will be able to feel more grateful about those things. And similar thing you can do with anything that you have in your, in your house or in your life. Let's say that you do not have so many clothes that you have, right? Maybe you are down to two pairs. How your life will turn out to be if imagine that you do not have a vehicle. Imagine that you do not have a friend. Okay, so you can provide any kind of contrast. How it's up to your imagination what kind of contrast you want to provide to your practice, right? So that was the second practice and the third best practice. Practice is imagine if something had not happened. So in the last practice, providing contrast, I'm saying that imagine the absence of something or some person maybe, right? But in this one, I'm saying that imagine an event has not happened. Maybe if you have not gotten your first job, how your life will turn out to be. Imagine you was you were not there in a concert or in a party where you have met your partner, your girlfriend or your wife. How your life will turn out to be. Right. Imagine you did not go to the college in which you went. How your life will turn out to be. Okay, so imagine something that has a special place in your life and then imagine that it has not happened. How your life will turn out to be, how you will define meaning of different, different events that are happening in your life, how they will feel to you. Right? Try to imagine alternate scenario. Maybe there will be some scenario there that in some ways they might be a little bit better, but then try to think of that, what is the best in these scenarios and then you will be able to appreciate those event and those people a little bit more. Right. So this is another kind of exercise. And again, there is no limit how for how much you can think that if something has not happened. Okay. And try to go as deep as possible in every particular aspect of this exercise. Okay. And then you will find that layer by layer new things are coming up and this will become a very interesting exercise. Okay, so this was the third best practice that you can do in order to maximize your gratitude benefit. So before I go ahead and I share last two best practices, and you don't want to miss the fifth one for sure, I have a very special request. I have a request that if you are listening to this podcast on Spotify or iTunes, they have a very special feature where you can rate this podcast up to five star. So my request is please rate this podcast up to five star and let me know your feedback. Let me know what do you think about this podcast. Let me know what do you think about this episode. Let me know what else you want to hear from me. Let me know if there is any topic that you want me to talk about. Let me know if there are any mistakes that I'm making so that I can improve myself. Any kind of feedback is welcome. And if you are listening to this episode on YouTube, please like, please share this video and please subscribe to the channel. Thank you so much. This was the special request. And let's move forward with the fourth best practice. Fourth best practice is contemplate the mortality of your life. See, this is the harsh reality or the maybe the better reality or the best reality of life, that life is going to end. Anything that we have, anything that has a form here in this life is going to end, including our friends, our loved ones, and us as well. We are not going to live forever, right? But especially when we are in our youth and also when we are not in our youth, we live like we are never going to die. We worry too much about tomorrow that as if we are never going to die. We are always going to be here, right? So in that sense, this exercise comes very. I mean, it provides a very beautiful perspective towards your daily routine. Okay? So these, this exercise, this kind of exercise can be done in two ways. Imagine your death in future. So let's imagine that you have grown old, like 80, 85 years, 90 years, hundred years. And then you are looking back and thinking how your life has gone. Would you be worried about these things about which you are worried today? Okay? Or will you be provide, will you be emphasizing on something else? If your life, if you are imagining your life after 40 or 50 years, maybe 60 years, okay, then how your life will turn out to be and how you will imagine these events that you are. That you are putting so much importance today. Okay? How these, these events will feel like. Alright, so this is one scenario and another scenario is that imagine that you are going, you are about to die in six months. Then what will happen? Will you emphasize on the events, emphasizing on today, will you emphasize too much on, like paying the bills or maybe meetings, etcetera, how it will turn out to be? It's not always that you will not emphasize on the daily chores. Maybe you will start doing them in much better way, right? So it is up to you. It is. It is very personal. It is very subjective. So when you imagine these scenario, it will bring back the mortality of life. It adds that because we are here for a limited time, we may as well use this time in a best possible manner. All right. I'm not asking you to imagine that you are going to die tomorrow. Then whatever you are doing will not make any sense, right? Then you would want to maybe spend all the savings that you have in just a day. I am not asking you to do that. I'm just asking you to imagine that because the. Because life is mortal and we are all are going to die and not only you are going to die or I am going to die, everything that surrounds us has a lifespan, whether it is living being or a non living being. Everything has a lifespan, right? So you can do this exercise with anything, but it works best with you. It brings back that element that you are here for the limited time and what you want to make out of that time, it is up to you, right? So that is the fourth best practice that let you appreciate the current moment, the present moment, the present blessings that you have right now a little bit more. That is how it fits into the gratitude. All right, so this was the fourth best practice and the last one, the last best practice is receive gratitude from others. This is the most profound study or the finding that has been found once the positive psychology has been, has started studying gratitude. That practicing gratitude is one thing that practicing. You know that practicing three good things or three things that you are grateful about or any other thing that you are thankful about, that is one thing. But if you are able to receive gratitude, if you are able to receive a thanks from someone, a genuine thanks from someone, from the heart, that will give you a lot more benefit compared to any other exercise. Okay, now you might be thinking that I'm not receiving thanks on a daily basis, right? So how can I do this exercise? So there are ways to do that exercise. So one is that, that you can imagine some old scenario, our mind does not know the difference between the reality and the imagination. That then you can go back to the incident or the event when you genuinely received some thanks to, from someone, right? Genuine thanks. So you can play that scenario in your head over and over again and you can receive the same benefit as long as you are imagining it with the whole vivid imagination. Okay? And another way is that you can associate yourself in some, you know, imaginary story or maybe in some movie where you, you or your, your character is receiving, you know, thanks. Because as I said, our mind does not know the difference between the imagination and the reality. So when you play this in your head, our mind, it accept it as a reality and it gives you the same kind of benefit. It has been studied and it has been proven as well. So even when you are listening to some story and when you associate yourself with a character and that character is receiving genuine thanks from someone, you, the people tend to, you know, notice the physical changes, their heartbeat change, their respiratory means, their breathing changes, you know, and you can, you can see this when you are watching a movie, if it is a suspense or thriller movie and you know, it is a tension full situation, your heartbeat goes up like so, because something imaginary is going on in front of you. But your, your mind is considering it as real. So that way you can also, you know, practice this exercise, practice this kind of routine, gratitude routine. Also you can do one more thing. You can practice law of karma. The more thanks, more gratitude you give to others, the more time you are thankful to other. And you, you give genuine appreciation to other. Somehow, in some way you will receive appreciation from other as well. So do that. Appreciate other people, right? Don't do that in the expectation that people will appreciate you. Most likely the people to whom you are appreciating, they will not appreciate you. But maybe someone else will. Yeah. So that was the fifth, 5th best practice that you need to include in your gratitude routine. So let's conclude, let's conclude the whole episode today. Sustaining a meaningful gratitude practices. Gratitude practice. So by incorporating these five best practices that I just described into your daily life or into your gratitude routine, you can create a gratitude routine that is both sustainable and that also works on targeted area and that also gives you the most benefit. You can embrace the transformative power of gratitude to, you know, to enrich your overall well being and your personal growth. And your targeted growth as well. Right? So you need to keep in mind that you, you at all cost, you are avoiding gratitude fatigue and you are having some kind of exercise where you are receiving gratitude from others. And also, there are other practices that I have shared. They are equally powerful when you do them right. So these were the five best practices. This is the end of the topic of the day. But before I end this episode, I want to announce two things. One is that I have written an ebook. The title of the ebook is the Happiness blueprint, practical strategies for a fulfilled life. It's a pocket size ebook full of actionable items that you can pick right now and start doing right now and start feeling the change and start. And you can feel that your happiness quotient is increasing right at this moment. All right, so to download this ebook, the link is given in the description. So go ahead and download this ebook and if you want to connect with me on a one to one basis, you want to discuss your roadblocks for your happiness, growth and success, we can do that on a one to one basis and we can design together your personal happiness blueprint. Your personal success blueprint. Okay, to connect with me on a one to one basis, the link is again given in the description. You can follow the link and you can book a call with me. And if you want to connect with me on social media, then Instagram is the place.@happinessarchitect is my Instagram handle. You can go ahead and follow me over there and you can dm me also. You can ask your questions. I will be very, very happy to reply over there. And if you want to know more about me and my programs, coaching programs and other things, then you can visit my website, akshayatiwari.in. So that was the end of the episode two. Hope you have enjoyed it. Take care of yourself. Take care of your loved one until we are meeting with one another, with one another again, and take care of the people around you. And always remember, happiness is a lifestyle. God bless you. Bye bye. Take care. Bye.