Yesterday as I continued to practice “extreme gratitude” I felt led to extend gratitude to areas in my life that were painful. Gratitude for painful experiences?
As memories of painful experiences flooded my mind, I began to argue inwardly, “How can I be grateful for this? Does this make sense? It doesn’t make sense but I’m going to stay open and try it and just see what happens.”
I sat down, closed my eyes, and began to give thanks for the pain. This quickly moved to giving thanks for everything I could think of that was painful from the my earliest memory, and for every person that I could think that seemed to cause me pain and heartache as well as any situation or circumstance that I found painful throughout my life.
Tears flowed down my face in a steady stream as memories flooded my mind of one painful experience after another in chronological order and for each I said, “Thank you for _____.”
It was as though I was being washed from the inside out. To my great surprise, when I finished I felt cleansed, lighter, and like I wanted to curl up for a cozy, peaceful nap.
I’m not sure what the next step is my extreme gratitude experiment but I’ll let y’all know as it unfolds. xo
Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™ 
Oh I need to get the courage to try this.
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Love your words of wisdom and the pictures.
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You are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. Your message has caused me also to reflect on passed experiences. Again thank you and may God’s blessings be upon you always. ❤
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