Giving Thanks, Thanksgiving, and Your Health, Wellness, and Wellbeing

Gratitude matters to everything more than this holiday alone.

Murray "MJ" Blehart
4 min readNov 23, 2023

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Giving Thanks, Thanksgiving, and Your Health, Wellness, and Wellbeing
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Today we celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States. I’d like, however, to ignore both the moral issues of the Colonists and their treatment of the Native Americans, as well as the modern-day commercialization of the holidays overall, and focus on the words and the intent. Thanks. Giving. Giving Thanks. Gratitude

I have said that THANK YOU are the two most powerful words in the English language after I AM. While the specifics of this particular day may not be to everyone’s satisfaction, I think the concept is something we can get behind. Gratitude matters.

Life is imperfect. We all have people with whom we do not get along, we all have issues and things that cause us displeasure and worse. The point is that we’re better off not allowing ourselves to get so focused on all the negative. Thanks giving is about creating gratitude, and gratitude is a conduit of contentment, building better, improved health, wellness, and wellbeing, and of course positivity.

Be mindful of what you can control

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Murray "MJ" Blehart

I explore mindfulness, positivity, philosophy, & conscious reality creation. I love to help & inspire. And I also write sci-fi/fantasy. http://www.mjblehart.com