It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary.
Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening and telling – is an enjoyable, fortifying and heart-lifting practice, for anyone!
S – Storytelling begets GRATITUDE
It just does. Even if only for the heart-lifting experience it provides in the moment no matter what else may be going on. But wait, there’s more!…
In the endless array of what stories can be about, what situations or issues or emotions they contain or can point to, there are endless opportunities and ways to experience GRATITUDE when you are listening to a story…
…how it may entertain you, or inform you, or illuminate something, or give an amazing new perspective, or make you laugh with delight, or weep with recognition, or ache in empathy, or thrill with discovery…and on and on.
I know that my 34+ years of storytelling (as a professional performer and educator, as well as an endlessly-eager-and-grateful listener every opportunity I get) has created immeasurable GRATITUDE in my life.
For which I’m so very grateful!
Try it, and see what it gives you! (Here’s just one of the countless articles about studies, etc., that confirm how good GRATITUDE is for your mental health!)
Thanks for reading – Pam
Top photo by ABDALLA M on Unsplash. Happy/conversing people photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash.
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