How to make someone cry and have them thank you!

"(American) Thanksgiving is not that far away. I'm going to share with you something that could make your family get-to-gether so special, you'll be thanking me for years"

Of course this idea is not exclusive to Thanksgiving, you could use it anytime you felt it appropriate. Although, special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas and religious holidays add a special touch (and a few extra tears).

Suppose that you have someone in your life that you feel you are greatly indebted to. So you want to show them your gratitude and you want to do it in a way that will be profound. This technique will do the job for you, but be warned....bring a big box of tissues!

"silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone" G.B. Stern

First, you write a letter to that person and express as fully as you possibly can how you feel about what they've done for you. Pour your heart into this as it must be as genuine and heartfelt as you are capable of. Don't send that letter!

Next, get face to face with that person. If you think it appropriate, and it can be even more powerful if others that person loves and respects are present. Read your letter to them. Then stand back because the tears will start to flow from the recipient of your gratitude. Then before you can say...your welcome...your tears will join in the outpourning of emotion. Then the dams break and soon everyone is crying like a baby.

The experience can be so moving and emotional that it will be remembered by everyone present, for the rest of their lives. The bonds of friendship will be stuck together like crazy glue.

It would be perfect if this is where the story stops, but there is more. People who have tried this say that it starts a chain reaction. Soon others want to try it on someone they love. As it spreads the tears flow like rivers and the hugs and 'I love you's' become an unstoppable avalanche.

"before we know it, we will have flooded all the rivers, raised the sea level and...healed the world"

Eduardo

P.S. I'd love to lay claim to the idea, but I got from the book...A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink