Introducing The ‘Gratitude Pumpkin’

‘A new riff on the seasonal tradition might just have families and friends smiling much longer than the most professionally chiseled jack-o’-lantern can last.

Introducing the gratitude pumpkin!

To start, all you need is a pumpkin, a permanent marker and thankful thoughts. If you have a lot of the latter, you may want to pick up more than one pumpkin.

Then, every day, adopt the practice of asking yourself and your family members something for which you are grateful.

So what better way to guard your home from the Grinch and other holiday hassles than to start cultivating a spirit of gratitude right now?

Cicero said gratitude was the “mother” of all human feelings, neuroscientists have proven that gratitude creates and strengthens healthy neural pathways — and your gratitude pumpkin will quite literally speak for itself.

Try it and see how it goes. Since gratitude begets gratitude, you just may end up with a whole patch of the season’s favorite fruit.”

Read the full article on the New York Post

✨Takeaway: A gratitude pumpkin is a fun way you can practice gratitude this fall. Everyday you wake up, you can add one new thing you are thankful for to the pumpkin. You will see it will be filled up with thankful thoughts in no time!

✨Reflection: What’s one thing you would write on your gratitude pumpkin?

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