Feeling Grateful on Thanksgiving

• EBT
• grateful
• Thanksgiving

This week, I feel the need to take a break from the neuroscience of EBT and

focus on feelings.  I sometimes wonder if Thanksgiving has become more about turkey, football and black Friday sales than what it is truly about.  So if you will stick with me, I would like to briefly reflect.
 
In simple EBT terminology, I feel grateful.  I feel grateful for my family and friends – a very special group of people who love me and support me.  I feel grateful for my health and all of the amazing things my body can do for me.  I feel grateful to have a job that provides a roof over my head and food on my table.  I feel grateful for the spiritual, that makes this world such a mysterious and wonderful place.
 
And, I feel grateful for EBT.  I feel grateful for the brain states – and more importantly, I feel very grateful for the tools that help me change my state.  I feel grateful for all of the EBT staff – Laurel, Igor, Judy, Deanne, Linda, Carra, Kelly and Justin, to name a few.  Thank you for helping me become who I am today.  I feel grateful for brain state 1 – a place that can experience joy in any situation.
 
Have you read the news story about Rachelle Friedman?  She is a 25 year old who was “all in fun” pushed into a pool by her best friend during her bachelorette party.  She landed wrong.  She is paralyzed.  She says, "We all have something to be thankful for.  I am thankful I didn't suffer a brain injury."  WOW…brain state 1 is a beautiful and incredible place.  Click here to read an article about her. 
 
In Spanish, Thanksgiving is Dia de Accion de Gracias which directly translates to Day of Action of Thanks.  I like that.  So today, let us give thanks for all of the blessings in our lives.  And, let us use our thanks to implement actions that will make this world a better place.  May each of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.