{"id":294,"date":"2013-08-21T06:08:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2013-12-21T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T19:09:21","slug":"beating-ovarian-cancer-the-importance-of-gratitude-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/beating-ovarian-cancer-the-importance-of-gratitude-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating Ovarian Cancer: The Importance of Gratitude (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re sick and especially when you&#8217;re dealing with a life-threatening disease, it&#8217;s very difficult feel grateful. After all, gratitude is thankfulness. It&#8217;s a way that we count our blessings. It&#8217;s being appreciative for what we have. That&#8217;s not an easy when what we have is illness, pain, and suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Yet gratitude is exactly what we need now. It&#8217;s been proven that gratitude reduces stress, improves our outlook and it enhances health.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgTZri359WE?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=0&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What gratitude does&#8230; is it shifts our focus. It shifts it from all the things we are lacking in our life to the abundance that is already present.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s not easy. Yet, even when I was in the very depths of my sorrow and suffering, I found a way to be grateful. I was so grateful that it was me going through this and not one of my daughters, or one of my sisters or my mother.<\/p>\n<p>I was the only one who knew the true extent of the suffering I was experiencing and I couldn&#8217;t bare the thought of a loved one going through that. So I became very grateful that this disease decided on me rather than one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I was in a state of gratitude, I noticed so many things around my illness improving. Practicing gratitude contributes a great deal when it comes to healing.<\/p>\n<p>Make a point of finding something to be grateful for, whether it&#8217;s a good day or a bad day. Make a conscious effort to find anything you can be grateful for.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how sick you are or how bad you feel&#8230; you can have (at least) one grateful thought everyday. If it&#8217;s hard for you to come up with one, try using the one I use. It&#8217;s simple, powerful and comes directly from the heart. &#8220;Thank you, I&#8217;m so grateful for my healing.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re sick and especially when you&#8217;re dealing with a life-threatening disease, it&#8217;s very difficult feel grateful. After all, gratitude is thankfulness. It&#8217;s a way that we count our blessings. It&#8217;s being appreciative for what we have. That&#8217;s not an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/beating-ovarian-cancer-the-importance-of-gratitude-video\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beating Ovarian Cancer: The Importance of Gratitude (video)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbledy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}