Giving Gratitude

In the United States, we will have Thanksgiving this week.

It is typically a time for gathering of loves ones and being grateful for all that we have.

This year will be different for many of us due to the quarantine.

With that in mind, I remind you to still express gratitude.

You see,  gratitude is like water … it makes things grow.

Yes, just like water, when you sprinkle gratitude on things it makes them grow and thrive.

Gratitude revives your attitude, it freshens your outlook, it nourishes your soul.

Gratitude is the new water!

If you’ve seen the “instant” products that say, “Just add water”. Well, the same works for your life.

Is your life not going as you’d like? Just add gratitude.

Are you cranky and unhappy? Just add gratitude!

Gratitude shifts your focus from what you don’t want in your life to the things that you’d like more of in your world.

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” – Meister Eckhart

 “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson

When you concentrate on gratitude and your blessings, it shifts your focus; it changes the energy of your life which can really turn your life around.

It can drag you up out of the pit of despair you were living in and bring you into the light. It lifts the burdens from your heart and starts letting in more joy and happiness.

What you focus upon increases, so focus on the things you’d like to increase in your life: joy, happiness, fun, bliss, generosity of spirit, contentment … the things that make your life worth living!

Expressing Gratitude

Expressing your gratitude daily makes such a huge difference in your attitude and in how your life flows.

“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” – Northrup Christiane

 “A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.” – Plato

You attract what you concentrate on. When you concentrate on gratitude, you bring more of what you appreciate into your life. You become a magnet for your dreams and desires!

Being grateful and telling the universe that you are grateful allows the universe to send more of that your way. After all, the universe likes to give you what you truly desire. Then when you express gratitude for that, it is confirmation that you would like more of it to show up.

Not only does gratitude tell the universe what you would like, but it also allows you to tell yourself what you like. You begin to realize and to acknowledge just how many wonderful things have already shown up in your life that you might not have noticed.

Flow With It

Flow with the love, gratitude, joy, bliss and happiness rather than the trauma and drama.

Isn’t love, gratitude, joy, bliss, and happiness really more fun? Doesn’t it take you to amazing places? Just keep following it!

Expressing gratitude for all of the little and big things in your life really helps you realize all of the wonders, joys, and fun that you already have so you can build on them to make your life even more amazing.

A Few Gratitude Reminders

 “In times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude. The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“Stop thinking gratitude as a byproduct of your circumstances and start thinking of it as a world view.” – Bryan Robles

 “…it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” – David Steindl-Rast

Let the Universe / God / Source know that you are grateful for what you receive. That becomes the invitation for more of what you appreciate to show up.

Develop a habit of gratitude in which it is simply second nature for you to appreciate what you have, what shows up, and the possibilities for more in your life.

When you learn to see the beauty, the gratefulness, and the appreciation in the big and small, you realize just how much you really have to be thankful for.

It is then that you truly learn to live a life of gratitude.

Now get out there and express some gratitude!

Let the gratitude begin!

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