The CD is designed to inspire and guide the listener into having a thankful mind and a grateful heart. It was created by husband and wife clinical psychologists, Dr Ron and Suwanti Farmer and, in many ways, can be more transformative than any of the other CDs in their Self Help Therapy range.

When a feeling of profound and delighted gratitude illuminates even a few moments in one’s day, there is a ripple effect which leaves its impression on all of the perceptions and activities to follow.

A grateful heart is a soft, open and forgiving heart.  A feeling of gratefulness for all that we lack or suffer from, as well as for all of our gains and comforts, places us in an ideal position to profit by and learn from life. Every moment becomes increasingly enriched. Bitterness, anger, resentment, self-pity, depression and all of the other ingrained negatives are worn away by the steady application of gratitude-based reasoning. As an antidote for the innumerable mental and emotional viruses which limit our potential for exuberance, self-confidence and joy, gratitude can be ranked high up there along with unconditional love.

The ‘Seeing through the Eyes of Gratitude’ CD is designed to inspire you to aim for the heights – to feel increasingly blessed and grateful every day.  To guide you along the path, there are teaching stories, guided meditations, convincing analogies, affirmations and other ppractical steps, including the Japanese Naikan (inner enquiry). The aim is to change our habitual thought patterns, step-by-step, so as to develop a ‘thankful mind’. What the mind thinks, the heart is bound to follow, and we soon begin reaping the benefits of having a ‘grateful heart’.

To be grateful for all and everything, regardless, is not a “Yes, but..” commitment. It is either a leap into the unknown, or we stay locked into the old familiar habits of thinking, feeling and behaving which we’ve known since childhood. To take such a leap requires a great deal of trust – trust in God perhaps, in a benevolent universe, or in our own Higher Self. Many have gone before us – great ones – who have confirmed that such trust is both safe and worthwhile. As the well-known 19th century essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once wrote:
               All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.