Each night, take 5 minutes before you go to bed, close your eyes, go into your heart, and go over your day from the present moment to the beginning of the day. Look for moments when you can feel gratitude for an occurrence or a feeling. There may be something in your day that you took for granted or you missed. This exercise allows you to be in full awareness of the good things that are happening in your life. I would recommend that you do it regularly for one month and then decide if you want to continue. 

"Every joy is gain. And gain is gain, however small." 

Beverley has been a practicing counsellor for over 30 years. She has worked extensively in Canada, Australia, Japan, and Thailand. Beverley currently has a full-time practice on the North Shore. Beverley has a highly intuitive ability to help people uproot core issues that are holding them back from moving forward to where they want to be in terms of their own self-growth. She works extensively with couples and families and individuals with numerous presenting issues.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful feeling states we have the gift of experiencing.

Why is it so powerful? For many, many reasons. First, it brings us into our hearts. Gratitude is not found in the head. It is solely a feeling of the heart. For those of you who want to get out of your head, move your focus to gratitude and you will stop the incessant chatter of the mind and move towards just being with a moment of acknowledgement of what is good. Most importantly, that acknowledgement is felt, not thought. It is felt with a breath, a sigh, a smile, an opening of the heart. It's a moment of stopping and smelling the roses, so to speak. Read More