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August 24th, 2008 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
Gratitude, that simple feeling that you are extremely fortunate to have received something. A simple but powerful feeling…Not only will feeling gratitude make you feel good, fortunate and happy but it will also knock down the barriers between you and the Power of the Universe. You see, gratitude leads your spirit to a place where you’re more intimately aligned or walking with the Universe (or whatever name you choose to give the infinite). This occurs because gratitude reflects the truth..there is literally so much in your life to feel incredibly grateful for…In addition, this feeling will also produces happiness since you become aware of how much you’ve been blessed. You also will feel courage from knowing that you can call upon this infinite power to produce good, no matter what the world may throw your way…And then there’s the love that gratitude creates. Love of the Universe, the world, your life. It’s all so very good.
These consequential feelings tend to crystallize fairly quickly once you start living with an attitude of gratitude. What you’ll find is that it’s not just about you. It’s about You AND the Universe. You see, the Universe works to create good on this planet for you and everyone else as well. Now you can be cynical and say that the world is going to hell in a hand basket but if you study your history you’ll see that the overall level of justice, opportunity and health in the world today is incredibly greater than it was just a few hundred years ago. Back then a small cut could easily turn gangrenous leading to an amputation without anesthesia, the wealthy could rape their female servants with impunity and if you were born into a class you stayed there your entire life there with no chance of moving up. So while there’s absolutely no doubt that there are many problems, things things are infinitely better today than yesterday. The world just continues to improve…So the level of good is increasing, and this is happening for you and through you…Yourself and others like you are actually main conduits through which the Universe creates a better world. For instance, maybe you’ve been given the drive, the passion, the talent for such things as music, gardening, cooking, humor, business, medicine, parenting, friendship etc. etc… And by being given these gifts as well as the opportunity to use them you create more good for yourself and others. And when you feel gratitude for this you send the intention out there. And the Law Of Attraction states that whatever we send out we will attract more of. So more good things come into your life to feel grateful for… Nice…You know this is the kind of cycle I really enjoy.
Now to start this cycle is easy, you just have to intelligently observe that you already have been given the most valuable things to be grateful for and that anything else that comes your way is only icing on the cake. The most obvious of these blessings is that you’re alive. Now don’t say “Ya-ya I know that, now what about the finances and great relationships.”…Well, look at it this way. You are on a plane and you’ve just scratched off a $10 million dollar lottery ticket. Then the gorgeous person sitting next to you asks where you’re staying and maybe you’re available for a late night dinner. Wow, talk about feeling grateful! Then silence…the engines fail and the plane starts going down. And you know what happens…you are now so aware of how precious a gift your life is. To say that you would be an extremely grateful person if you could be saved would be an understatement…At that point you realize in a very visceral way that the most basic blessing from which everything else is possible is your very life… So think intelligently and know that you already have the greatest gift that could ever be given (not to mention your sight/hearing/touch/movement, the ability to think, the people you love)… Now don’t get me wrong, dinner that night with the gorgeous person before picking up your million dollar winnings the next day isn’t too bad either.
So how do you develop and maintain such a strong sense of gratitude? Well first just be aware of what you currently have in your life and realize that much of this is simply given to you without any effort on your part. Just be aware of this and then say AND FEEL sincere thanks. For instance, when driving, realize how amazing the roads are and how you are given free use of them without any effort on your part even though they costs tens of millions to construct. See the clouds, the grass, the stars and say and feel thanks for these things of breathtaking beauty that are just given to you, and all you have to do is simply look around. Everything from the food you eat to the people in your life to whatever the level of health you retain. Say and feel the thanks. You will soon get to the point where it almost brings a tear to your eye. You will realize how incredibly blessed you are. It will bring appreciation, joy and a feeling of being the wealthiest person on earth.
So do this and you will begin to look at everything from your cell phone to your kitchen stove with a renewed sense of appreciation. And do this on a continuous basis. Then, something that’s usually forgotten, use the Law Of Attraction to recreate yourself into a grateful person. Go through the steps outlined in the previous parts of this series…visualize yourself as a grateful person. Then feel the belief, happiness and even gratitude that you are a grateful person. Send this intention out there and you will manifest that personal change in your life…At one point I was a negative thinker and then the idea came to me that if I can attract anything in my life why not attract the personal characteristics that would make life better and manifesting easier? I did this and everything started to become magical. You see before I was doing things like saying “The glass is half full not half empty, .. half full, .. half full..” And you know what? It was half full .. but it was also half empty! I really wasn’t getting anywhere. Then, when I started using the Law Of Attraction to become grateful my thinking began to change. I now said to myself “Hey, I have half my glass full, that’s incredible and I’m so lucky and grateful to have been given this. Thank you”. Now that was a much more powerful shift based in reality and focused on what I have been given without the thought of what I did not have (the half empty part). And this of course attracted more into my “glass” until it was eventually completely full.
Now thinking in this way and attracting a grateful personality will cause you to change. Your belief in the Law Of Attraction will increase and you will begin to feel gratitude for the things you are manifesting in your life, even before you have actually receive them. And this gratitude for the things to come will facilitate their manifestation so you will realize them easier & faster.
For instance, I am very grateful for you and all the other readers from America, Europe and Australia. I am also grateful for this fantastic technology that enables me to communicate with people around the world and the good that’s produced in people’s lives as a result… And what did I do to create this wonderful technology? Nothing. It’s just here for me to use without any effort to develop it on my own part. And being grateful for the technology and the opportunity to communicate ideas with others attracts even more to be grateful for…Touching more readers in more countries leading to even greater gratitude etc. etc. Like I said, this is the kind of positive and energizing cycle that I want in my life…and yours as well.
Rich Blessings
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