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Continued from page 14 works! If you wake up in the us was, at one time, a little infant.
morning with gratitude on your
is my sense of gratitude. I begin mind, it's pretty difficult, in fact
to take the people in my life for almost impossible, to feel any- Now, roll forward the clock one
granted, and the love that I of- thing but peace. hundred years. See the same per-
ten feel is replaced with resent- son as a very old person who is
ment and frustration. Imagine the People in Your Life about to die. Look at their worn-
as Tiny Infants and as One- out eyes and their soft smile,
What this exercise reminds me Hundred-Year-Old Adults I which suggests a bit of wisdom
to do is to focus on the good in learned this technique almost and the admission of mistakes
my life. Invariably as I think of twenty years ago. It has proven made. Know that each of us will
one person to feel gratitude for, to be extremely successful for be one hundred years old, alive or
the image of another person releasing feelings of irritation to- dead, before too many decades go
pops into my head, then anoth- ward other people. by.
er and another. Pretty soon I'm
thinking of other things to be Think of someone who truly irri- You can play with this technique
grateful for - my health, my tates you, who makes you feel and alter it in many ways. It al-
children, my home, my career, angry. Now, close your eyes and most always provides the user
the readers of my books, my try to imagine this person as a with some needed perspective
freedom, and on and on it goes. tiny infant. See their tiny little and compassion. If our goal is to
features and their innocent little become more peaceful and lov-
It may seem like an awfully sim- eyes. Know that babies can't help ing, we certainly don't want to
ple suggestion, but it really but make mistakes and each of harbor negativity toward others.
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