When Our Buttons Are Pushed

Once we have religiously kept a gratitude diary for a few weeks, feeling gratitude can be fine most of the time when things are going well. But what happens when our buttons are pushed? Do we revert back to our old patterns of thought and behaviour? Feeling frustrated, angry, and just not good. This is very easy to do!

Next time this happens, I suggest NOT fighting these feelings, but allowing them. Then recognise that this is a gift. Work out why this is happening and where it is coming from. Get to the base of it, in a calm, reasoning manner. Preferrably with a friend who will be your sounding board and ask pertinent questions, to help you get to the hub of it. How can we clear the blocks and issues we have that interrupt and impede our happiness, if we don’t know what they are?

Once identified, we can work on them. So, next time our buttons are pushed, be grateful for this gift. Once we feel gratitude again, we will be re-centred. The surest way to always be happy is to always be grateful - no matter what! There is a gift in everything.