{"id":434,"date":"2008-03-26T23:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/03\/26\/the-gratitude-channel\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T23:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T03:00:21","slug":"the-gratitude-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"The Gratitude Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often ask people to pay attention to natural beauty instead of watching reruns of their old grudges&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 The world is full of things to appreciate and find beautiful once you teach yourself to look.\u00c2\u00a0 The forgiveness and gratitude channels remind us that even though we have been hurt, we do not have to dwell on the hurt.\u00c2\u00a0 The one thing no one can take from us is what we pay attention to and focus on.\u00c2\u00a0 We may have a habit of watching the grievance channel or the bitterness channel, but we still control the remote.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that, with practice, any habit can be broken or changed.\u00c2\u00a0 The world is full of heroes who have overcome difficulty by tuning in to channels of courage or bravery.\u00c2\u00a0 Each of us can become a hero in our own life, to the benefit of our friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dr. Fred Luskin, <em>Forgive for Love, <\/em>p. 142<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often ask people to pay attention to natural beauty instead of watching reruns of their old grudges&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 The world is full of things to appreciate and find beautiful once you teach yourself to look.\u00c2\u00a0 The forgiveness and gratitude channels remind us that even though we have been hurt, we do not have to dwell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-gratitude","category-healing","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}