Attitudes of Gratitude in Love: Creating More Joy in Your Relationship

Attitudes of Gratitude in Love: Creating More Joy in Your Relationship

Learn How to Deepen Your Relationship Gratitude is the key. "We can have happier and more joy-filled relationships if we focus on what's right about them rather than what's wrong," writes M. J. Ryan in Attitudes of Gratitude in Love , the follow-up to her bestselling inspirational book Attitudes of Gratitude . Discover amazing gratitude benefits. Gratitude is a simple, profound practice that can change your life. Research has confirmed its many emotional and physical benefits. Taking the time to notice and reflect upon good things opens our hearts, creates happiness, and restores us to a natural place where we notice what's right instead of wrong. In her characteristically down-to-earth style, Ryan helps readers use the practice of gratitude to get back in touch with why they fell in love in the first place and deepen the love between partners, no matter how long they've been together. Find happiness and joy with positive thinking. When you find ways to be grateful every day, you experience more joy in life. Author and personal success mentor M. J. Ryan writes, "Gratitude births only positive feelings―love, compassion, joy, and hope. As we focus on what we are thankful for, fear, anger, and bitterness simply melt away, seemingly without effort." Attitudes of Gratitude in Love will teach you how to reach this positive place. The book is divided into two sections: Attitudes of gratitude that bring our personal lives more joy, peace, and love - Simple behaviors we can begin to practice to change any relationship for the better, right this moment. Readers of M. J. Ryan’s best-selling inspirational book Attitudes of Gratitude or personal growth books like The Book of Joy , The Gratitude Diaries , and The Happiness Project will learn more about the life-changing benefits of gratitude in Attitudes of Gratitude in Love . Cofounder of Conari Press and coeditor of the "Random Acts of Kindness" series, Ryan returns with another little feel-good book. Radiating enough cheer to perk up Archie Bunker, this successor to the best-selling Attitudes of Gratitude spins positive angles on being grateful for the hard work that characterizes long-term relationships (e.g., "The more you're thankful, the more you'll receive"). Each section is simple if generic and features an epigraph purer than the text. Aimed primarily at married couples, it basically screams "gift book"; if similar material (e.g., Amy Dean's Night Light) spikes circulation at your public library, fine. Chicken Soup for the Soul? It's more like popcorn. Purchase as needed. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Known internationally as an expert on change, M.J. Ryan works as an executive coach to senior executives and entrepreneurs around the world, helping them accelerate business success and personal fulfillment. She combines a practical approach gained as the CEO of a book publishing company with methodologies from neuroscience, positive psychology, and asset-focused learning to help clients and readers more easily meet their goals. Her client list includes Royal Dutch Shell, Microsoft, Time, the U.S. military, and Aon Hewitt. She's a partner with the Levo League career network and the lead venture coach at SheEO, an organization offering a new funding and support model for female entrepreneurs. She's the founder of Conari Press, creator of the New York Times bestselling Random Acts of Kindness series, and author of many books, including Habit Changers: 81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals . Attitudes of gratitude in love Creating More Joy in Your Relationship By M. J. RYAN Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC Copyright © 2002 M. J. Ryan All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-57324-765-8 Contents Foreword by Daphne Rose Kingma1 The Key to Living Our Love2 The Gifts of Relationship Gratitude3 Myths That Hold Us Back4 Love's Attitudes of Gratitude5 The Practice of Gratitude in Love6 The Joyful JourneyMy ThanksAbout the Author CHAPTER 1 THE KEY TO LIVING OUR LOVE Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tendto view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result beingthat they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotionalshouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. —Dave Barry In the three years since I wrote Attitudes of Gratitude , I've been teachingabout and practicing gratitude on a daily basis. What I've come to see is thatwhile it is easy to be grateful in the abstract—for sun and rain and good food—oftenthe place where it is most difficult to practice is in our most intimaterelationships. So many of us are (rightfully) grateful to the stranger who helpsus pull our car out of the ditch but take for granted the daily gift our lovedone is. I know that's true for me. I am almost always unfailingly appreciative ofeveryone except the one closest to me. With my husband, just as Dave Barrypoints out, I spend most of