Happy Thanksgiving - Showing Gratitude - Never Taking Life for Granted

Happy Thanksgiving. Wishing you and yours a blessed day filled with gratitude. 

Showing gratitude for your life can make the difference between taking life for granted and experiencing a fully enriched life full of joy and contentment.

Showing gratitude causes the seemingly simple things in your life to become magnified and appreciated. You begin to extract the joy out of every moment and every event in your life you encounter. In this state of gratitude, your vibration is elevated and you feel satisfied within.

Start with something small

If you feel like you have nothing to be grateful for, start with something small - at least something that you take for granted each day. When you lay in your bed express gratitude for a warm comfy bed that you could snuggle up in every night. How about your warm cozy blanket? 

And as you lay there, let your mind think about other people who have no bed, no blanket and send love and comfort to them. Say a prayer for them and feel your level of appreciation soar. This can be a very sobering exercise especially when we're complaining about how bad things are with us. Take it a step further and share with someone in need.

Show gratitude to the people in your life

Now is the time to show gratitude to your partner, your children and your friends while they're here with you. Don't wait for when your children are all grown up to begin to show gratitude for even having them - although if you've never done it when they were at home, now is a good time to start.

Express gratitude to your partner, this may be the turning point in your relationship that's needed to bring you both closer together. Decide what's most important here.

Make gratitude a mindset and a lifestyle

When you make gratitude a habit you'll see everything through the eyes of appreciation. Practice the habit of gratitude as soon as you awake every morning, throughout the day and the last thing before you go to sleep. 

A life filled with gratitude radiates joy and connects you to peace.

Whenever troublesome situations come look for the good even in its smallest form and shift into gratitude mode. You'll learn to appreciate everything and take nothing for granted. Familiarity causes us to take things for granted after their initial excitement is over. However, gratitude brings renewed appreciation each day and helps us see the familiar from a fresh perspective.

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Sunday Morning Inspiration - Live in the Attitude of Gratitude

Gratitude always puts us into a higher vibration of joy. Are you living in the attitude of gratitude?

Okay, you may say, "What's there to be grateful about when so many things are going wrong in my life?"

And I'd say to you, "You are here reading this email. You are alive. You are here one more day to breathe the precious breath of life and to try one more time."

Begin now to be thankful even for this seemingly small thing and you'll begin to feel your life energy begin to rise. Keep at it and you'll start to soar; feeling joy and an extra pep in your step.

Try it and keep practicing it. Soon enough you'll be attracting more things in your life to be thankful for.

http://youtu.be/xCBeElIC3z4

Getting My Body Back Friday - Do You Appreciate Your Body? Have An Attitude of Gratitude

No matter what size you are right now, on your journey to your ideal weight goal, have an attitude of gratitude. Appreciate your body because you are alive, full of life energy. This attitude of gratitude will elevate your energy, get you out of a state of depression and motivate you to exercise. Do it daily and you'll feel great about yourself, great about life and great about your workout. 

Watch the video.

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Getting My Body Back Friday - Expressing Gratitude to Enhance Weight Loss and Improve Health

Being grateful and expressing that gratitude can add tremendous value to one's health and well-being putting you in a positive vibration to attract more healing energy into your life. Stress and frustration deteriorates the body. So when you're in the positive vibration of gratitude you're able to draw in the flow of life energy into your body. 

We all know how awful it feels when you're not feeling well, when you're not at your peak and more so a prolonged illness can strengthen that feeling. But as you begin to shift your mindset into an attitude of gratitude, you immediately open the flow for life-giving healing energy to begin to regenerate the cells within your body. 

What about weight issues? 

When you look for the good things about your body and your life and start expressing gratitude for those things you already have, that feeling of feeling bad about your weight starts to loosen its grip on you. It's like turning on the light in a dark room. That negativity has to fall off.

What happens in that state of gratitude?

You become energized to continue on with your workout routine. You look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I may not be at my ideal weight yet but I feel good about me. I'm alive and well." What you're doing is reducing the resistance inside of you so your body receives the message of feeling good from you. 

Many of the commercials send the message that something is wrong with us when we're not at a particular weight and as we accept this into our internal programming we begin to feel that way. And so begins the struggle of wanting to lose weight now and a long journey of frustration. The sad part about that is that we find it difficult to accept ourselves and even love ourselves because we don't measure up to the 'status quo'. 

Feel good about where you are now. It does you no good to be caught up in a vortex of inferior feelings because you are not at the ideal weight. I know what this feels like. But until I came to the point to looking at myself in the mirror and appreciating my body and being thankful for my health and being a fertile woman, I could not appreciate what I already have. 

What can you start to feel thankful about today? 

Gratitude - How to Create the Habit of Gratitude to Attract More Good

Like any other habit the habit of gratitude needs to be practiced until it becomes a permanent part of your life, until it becomes a lifestyle. We've been encouraged as children to say thank you when someone gives us something. The feeling that goes with that is one of appreciation for you the receiver but the giver also appreciates your gratitude and wants to give you more. 

Ever given something to someone who refused to say thank you? You don't feel very enthusiastic about giving anything else to that person anymore do you? As a matter of fact you may have regretted giving anything to that person in the first place. 

Think about the universe. Giving and receiving is a law of nature. Gratitude is the physical expression or outward symbol or display to the universe that you are ready and open to receive the energy of goodness as it flows through the matrix of life. Water constantly flows through the open river bed, but if the river is blocked by debris it hinders the natural flow.

Similarly, the debris of ingratitude hinders the natural flow of blessings from coming into your life. It is the law of giving and receiving at work when we release our thankfulness.

So how do we create the habit of gratitude?

1) Decision

You must first make a firm decision that gratitude/thankfulness will be a part of your life, your lifestyle. Making the decision gets your mind in gear to look for all the good things in your life, even those hidden within the hard shell of adversity.

2) Become consciously aware

Look around you. Become aware of what you already have. Look for them diligently and look for other situations to be thankful for. Okay, you woke up this morning and thought that you have nothing to be thankful for because your situation looks very bleak. What about the breath that you just took? What about the fact that you are even reading this right now. It may seem like a small thing but here you are breathing in life into your body. Here you are being encouraged to look at life from a different perspective. Start here with what you have. 

3) Appreciate the small things

Remember, every oak tree was once a tiny seed. Don't underestimate the size of small things. They hold within them the potential to grow into large things. Start with the small things in your life. "I am thankful for my food. Thank you for providing for me every day. I am alive and well." Start from there and nurture it each day with your attitude of gratitude. Soon enough you'll begin to see all your good starting to expand and grow.

4) Set time aside

To help you remember, try to set aside a scheduled time to do this. Or implement it into something that you're already doing during the day - perhaps each time you sit to eat. Make it your conscious effort. Then expand it into first thing as you open your eyes in the morning and last thing before you fall asleep. What about when you take a shower or bath? That can also be a gratitude shower or bath time. 

Think of more creative ways that you can use to make gratitude/thankfulness your daily habit. Don't forget to practice the mental shift when adverse situations come up. Shift your mind from focusing on the negative and speak your gratitude. It will lift you out of that place of hopelessness into a positive energy wave to turn your situation around.

Gratitude - Appreciate the Good You Already Have to Attract More Good

Many of us tend to look at the things we don’t have in our lives and become entangled in frustration followed by depression. These negative emotions cloud our perception from seeing the abundance we already have and the blessings that already surround us. Even in its tiniest seed form, if we looked closely, we can see the potential abundance waiting to expand and grow in our lives.

How to appreciate the good

Have an attitude of gratitude

When your mind is set in gratitude mode, you begin to see all the good that’s around you and the more good you see you activate the attractor factor to bring more good for you to appreciate. You’d have started the gratitude snowball effect. When unfavourable circumstances present themselves, shift your mind to look for the good in them. Remember, every seed adversity has the life of good hidden within its hard shell. Take the seed and sink it in the soil of gratitude. The hard outer shell of adversity will begin to loosen its grip giving way to the life of good to manifest growth within you.

Practice the Habit of Gratitude

For a plant to grow it must continue to be nourished daily. A one-time attitude of gratitude is not enough to see a life overflowing with good. Practicing the habit of gratitude will create the snowball effect of good around until it begins to overflow into all areas of your life. Become saturated in gratitude and you’ll begin to find that adverse conditions cannot keep their grip on you. Every time something raises its head, your habit of gratitude will cause it to lose its power over you as you shift into gratitude mode.