Empower Newsletter – October 2021
| Welcome to the October 2021 edition of the Empower Newsletter. This month the theme is on gratitude and how it can help you to overcome feelings of fear and anger. |
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Did you know? |
You can’t be fearful or angry whilst feeling gratitude!
Have you ever been fearful or angry and somehow become stuck in those feelings?
You may be clashing with someone at work or maybe something at home is annoying you! You may feel scared about what your future holds, losing your partner or your job.
Whatever it is, it’s okay to have these feelings, they are natural and can be useful in some circumstances.
Fear is an important human emotion that can help protect us from danger and prepare us to take action, but it can also lead to longer lasting feelings of anxiety. Anger strongly motivates us to do something when we experience physical and emotional distress or it can produce destructive anger expressed in an unhealthy way that causes harm. For example, a person may act out aggressively towards others. The anger might also be turned inward, resulting in deliberate self-harm or substance use.
Fear comes in many different forms including terror, fright, horror, alarm, panic, dread, distress, anxiety, worry, and unease. Feelings of anger include rage, fury, annoyance, irritability and irritation.
Once you have decided these feelings of anger and fear no longer serve you because they are keeping you stuck and stopping you from moving forward help is at hand.
Whatever you are feeling is absolutely real for you. Addressing the issue at hand is the best option to allow you to move past these feelings. But if for some reason you feel the situation is out of your control for the time being, your way out is to show gratitude for things in your life.
You see, if we consciously acknowledge things in our lives that we are grateful for, it is impossible to feel fear and anger at the same time.
Which means you can’t be fearful or angry at the same time as being grateful.
So if you find yourself feeling fearful or angry, make a list either on paper or a mental one of things in your life you feel grateful for. It could be just being able to have a hot shower whenever you want, having people in your life you love and who love you, being able to go for a walk or a dance or simply just being able to do the things you love.
My belief is that gratitude is the secret to happiness! How can you not smile and feel good when you acknowledge all the things you are grateful for in your life?
Definition |
Gratitude
The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.
Something to Ponder |
Funny things to be grateful for: -
Indoor plumbing
Food delivery services
Wifi
Happy Hours
Netflix
Waking up seconds before your alarm
Fuzzy Socks
Deodorant
The ability to Google any question
Toilet Paper
Duct Tape
Good hair days
Your celebrity crush
The five second rule
Fortune cookies with perfectly timed fortunes
Clothes fresh out of the dryer
Inside jokes
GPS
Auto save
Spellcheck
Chapstick
Getting everyone to smile in the family photo at the same time
Quotes of the Month
“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
~ Will Arnett ~
“Gratitude is riches. Complain is poverty.”
~ Doris Day ~
Affirmation Corner |
‘I am super grateful for everything I have in my life.’
Newsletters | Di | 
October 3, 2021 1:51 pm
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