转移到感恩的态度可能是幸存者和真正蓬勃发展的差异。
我的初步跳舞是一种感恩的练习是由我在2010年回来的Facebook帖子的结果。朋友在发布她在11月期间每天都感激的东西。
I jumped in on the challenge, and as I was thinking of the different things I was grateful for, I noticed that my mood improved, I felt more relaxed, and the little things that would usually annoy me throughout the day started to melt into the background.
在这里发生了什么？
我一直认为自己是一个感恩的人，但多年来，我有意识地承认我感谢我普遍只发生在感恩节假日。
Back in those days, the posts read like an Oscars acceptance speech:
“一世’m thankful for my mentor, Aaron, who seemingly plucked me out of career mediocrity and provided me with the support I didn’t know I needed as I was graduating college and moving into Corporate America.”
“我很感谢我的家人，一直鼓励我追求我的梦想。”
2010年至2014年间，我的23位朋友死了。我当时是一个竞争激烈的跳伞运动员，我的社区主要是极端运动运动员推动他们的身体和设备可以处理的东西。
Skydiving accidents, BASE jumps gone tragically wrong, a motorcycle accident, and four veteran suicides taught me the power of appreciating people in our lives while they’re here to hear our platitudes.
我早期告诉我的朋友，家人和同事，经常我爱他们，他们对我有多少，以及我在我生命中的存在程度。
Across the board, my gratitude was outward-facing — an appreciation for the opportunities I had, things that had happened to me, or for people who had wandered into my life for a reason or a season.
It wasn’t until I was diagnosed with2型糖尿病我的感激地转向内。
Suddenly, I was thankful for a body that, while it wasn’t functioning optimally, was functioning overall.
而不是将我的“破碎的胰腺”（在糖尿病群落中的普通轨迹中解雇），而不是庆祝我的强壮，健康的肺部和腿部赋予我climb the mountains——字面和隐喻在摇来摇去nt of me on my journey to manage this disease.
I found gratitude for my ability to be diagnosed because that meant I had access to healthcare. I was grateful for the ability to feed myself whole, healthy foods because that meant that I had enough money to afford the foods that would heal my body from the inside out.
Kristi Nelson., executive director of the Network for Grateful Living and author of “醒来感激:T的变革实践aking Nothing for Granted” knows the power of gratitude and grateful living.
她在33岁时被诊断出患有第4阶段癌症，在27年后，当我们无所不能地理所当然时，它已经存在。
“幸福地生活是一个内心的工作，”纳尔森说。“感激不高兴地感谢内部，不等待环境感激。”
“我们必须在我们的脑海中，在我们的身体和我们周围的世界中占用什么，”她说。“这反对我们的文化固定，专注于折叠。”
研究支持一长串健康清单感恩的好处, including更好的睡眠质量,改善心脏健康,
对于如此少的人患有慢性疾病，转移到一种感恩的态度可能是幸存者之间的差异和真正蓬勃发展。
Whether you have been living with a chronic condition for years or you were recently diagnosed, life can feel like it just turned completely upside down in the wake of your diagnosis.
You might be asking yourself what you did to deserve this, why your body is betraying you, or a multitude of other questions that focus on what’s going wrong.
If focusing on what’s going wrong isn’t improving your life, here are some ways to start living gratefully and shift your focus to what is going right.
问问自己，有什么机会乞求我的注意力？
“无论你是一个起点，”纳尔森说。“需要深入信任来看待机会。你看到和寻求机会的越多，它就越强化了信任。“
当我被诊断出患有2型糖尿病时，我没有将这种诊断解释为我的身体背叛我，我看到我的身体正试图沟通这件事是错误的。
Doing this allowed me to start to develop a relationship with my body, instead of seeing myself as separate from it.
通过这种新的心态，这不是我对我的身体 - 我们是一个生活在一起的团队。因此，我的糖尿病管理协议并没有觉得对我生命中的侵略性中断，这是一个放慢速度，优先考虑我的健康的机会，并尽我所能照顾我的身体。
重新制造一切
“我们的身体背叛美国的想法对我们没有服务，”纳尔森说。
当你早上醒来并开始思考你的待办事项清单上的东西时，她建议恢复似乎是融入机会的负担的任务。
而不是说“我have去医生了解更多实验室，“那种语言转移。
“一世getto go to the doctor for more labs” acknowledges that you have access to healthcare, a doctor that is working to help you, and transportation to get to their office (even if that is your own two feet).
专注于什么工作
Like I did when I was first diagnosed with diabetes and saw this diagnosis as an opportunity rather than a death sentence, make a list of everything that is working in your body.
你能看到吗？你能听到吗？你能搬到你的身体吗？你能吃和消化食物吗？你能晚上睡觉吗？
In Nelson’s new book, there is a chapter called “Treasuring the Body As It Is.” When people ask you how you’re doing, Nelson encourages readers to respond with, “I’m not feeling great, but I’m grateful.”
“最终，当我们改变关于我们生活的对话时，我们改变了生活，”她说。
While these tweaks alone won’t make everything better overnight, they can make living life with a chronic illness more bearable and provide a shift in perspective that can alleviate some of the stress we experience on a day-to-day basis.
尼尔森提醒我们，“只要我们在这里，我们就可以侧重于此，即非凡活着。”
悉尼威廉姆斯是一名冒险运动员作者based in San Diego. Her work explores how trauma manifests in our minds and bodies and how the outdoors can help us heal. Sydney is the founder ofHiking My Feelings, a nonprofit organization on a mission to improve community health by creating opportunities for people to experience the healing power of nature. Join the徒步我的感情家庭，并遵循YouTube和Instagram..
