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Theme of Zoom Meeting: Sad to Glad
2020
by Richard E. Gordon Last updated: October 30, 2020
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Guidelines: In our discussion, let’s leave out any reference to medications, drugs, alcohol. Our focus will be on natural steps we can take to raise ourselves out of sadness to gladness.,
Questions:
For
most questions, I have provided underlined links that will take you to related
online information. Try coming up with your own thoughts first – then
investigate the links or ignore them – whatever you wish.
1. What does sadness mean to you? Gladness?
2. What have you found helpful to raise you mood from sadness to gladness?
3. How did you discover this helpful tool or strategy?
4. What are some other ways you can raise your spirits from sad to glad?
5. Why do some people appear to be sad more often than glad? Can the use of cell phones or other high tech affect your mood?
6. Is sadness contagious? How about gladness?
7. If your friend was sad because she felt so alone, how could you help her?
8. Would gaining great material wealth make you less likely to face sadness?
9. If someone feels sad because of growing into old age, can you imagine anything you might say or do to turn her sadness into gladness?
10. How might changing what you see in the media help change your sadness to gladness?
11. When you’re feeling sad, what might a friend say or do to make you feel glad?
12. You feel sad because no one gave you a gift or sent you a card for your birthday. What would make you feel glad? Would writing a warm, caring card to yourself help?
13. Could changing your facial expression from sadness to gladness make you feel better? How about forcing yourself to laugh even when you feeling sad?
14. Consider listing what makes you most grateful? How might such a list be helpful to you? Would you be willing to share one of those gratitudes with us?
15. Are there freely available videos on the internet that can lift your sadness to gladness? What’s one that especially brought smiles to you face and perhaps transformed sadness to gladness?
Quotations
“Gratitude is the seed of gladness.” ―
“Don't be sad that it's over.Be glad that you ever lived to see it.” ―
3. A kind heartWashington Irving“
4. We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.” -- Henri Nouwen
5. “Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.” -- Harry Allen Overstreet
6. “Smile though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile, through your fear and sorrow. … Light up your face with gladness…” – Judy Garland
7. “I find in being black, a thing of beauty, a joy, strength, a secret cup of gladness.” – Ossie Davis
8. “Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.” – Maurice Maeterlinck
9. “Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” — Henry Van Dyke
10. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” — Unknown
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