Meditation, Gratitude, Forgiveness - The Beautiful Triangle To Attract More Joy Into Your Life

Need more joy in your life? Do you feel like you're just going through the motions but find yourself feeling empty inside, like nothing's bringing you any joy? Perhaps you're missing one of these life triangles that opens the flow of abundance to you.

Let's see how they work

Meditation

Meditation brings you into a place of inner peace and oneness with the Great Universal Spirit. When you meditate, you become full of life-energy. You shed negative emotion that inhibits the flow of abundant joy. Meditation shifts your mind from focusing on limitations and onto being limitless which immediately shifts you into the energy of joy.

Inner joy supersedes the negative emotions you feel from your external adverse conditions. It's not dependent on how things are going in your life. So you can always choose to feel joyful no matter what you're going through right now.

Gratitude

Feeling appreciation for your life right now immediately takes you from a place of depression and elevates you onto the higher plane of joy. Gratitude shifts your perspective from seeing your situation and your life as hopeless to being able to see the goodness and the wealth that you already possess.

Many times we overlook the treasure we already have just because we don't yet have that one thing we so desire. And by doing so pushes the one thing further away from us. But when you are thankful for the seemingly small blessings you have right now, I'm sure you can think of a whole lot, you'll begin to appreciate your life and feel more joy right away.

Forgiveness

When you choose to hold a grudge against another you're blocking the flow of your own joy. You may think that you're doing the other person harm but the only person you're harming is yourself. Resolve in your mind right now that you'll release them.

Here's another for you. Release yourself too. What have you done in the past that you so regret, that you can't bring yourself to forgive you. Free yourself from that bind. Let yourself go free to live again, love again and yes, make mistakes again. For only then can you be free to experience more joy in your life.

Every day you practice the beautiful triangle of meditation, gratitude and forgiveness and make them a regular part of your daily routine for personal growth, you'll find that you, not only feel more joy, but you'll feel more alive, more energized as your power grows within you.

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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? 

Action Thursday - 3 Action Steps to a Life of Gratitude

Knowing about gratitude is great. But applying the knowledge is paramount. Let's look at some action steps you can take today for your particular situation. Take out your pen and paper and do the exercise. 

Action Step #1 - What can I be grateful for today? 

You may find that you start off with just one thing and then it begins to expand. Keep going. Don't hesitate to get more paper if you run out of space. That's a very good sign. Don't sweat it though if you only have a few to start with. That's okay too.

Action Step #2 - What troublesome situation are you facing?

Look at the troublesome situation right now and ask, 

1) What's the good in this?

2) What can I be thankful for?

Action Step #3 - Be thankful all day

Focus on the one or more things that you can be thankful for all day today and continue to express your gratitude. You may say something like, "I may not have my dream car right now, but I am thankful that I can still get to my destination and remain warm in the car that I have now. All is well."

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 - A Quote on Gratitude

"Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we think others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts." Sarah Ban Breathnach

We've been so programmed to look at the good that others are enjoying wishing that we can have the same and that's okay, to a point. But the problem begins when we start to diminish the value of what we already have in our own lives. When we engage in this type of behaviour we hinder the blessings of the universe from giving us more of which we desire. 

In order to quench this thirst, acknowledge the good that already exists in your life. Be filled with thanksgiving even for the smallest thing you have, although it may not look like much when compared to others. But that's the thing it may not look like much but it is yours and the more you appreciate it, the more you'll see the greatness in the one seemingly small thing. Then you'll say, "You know what? It's not so bad after all. I have a really good life. Or, it could have been worse but it's not."

Go into your day today being thankful for everything you could think of and watch your energy level lift from a state of depression into joy.

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.

Change your mindset about food

Getting my body back - Day 46

So much has been said about food; what you should eat, what you shouldn't eat, how much of what you should and shouldn't eat. Sometimes it makes you feel like saying, "Would you make up your mind, already!"

The purpose of food

Food was intended, from the beginning of time and still is, the source of our nutritional sustenance. You don't have to be told that if you don't eat what will happen to you. That's pretty obvious.

Visualization and food

Because thought and visualization are such powerful tools of manifestation to attain what it is you want to achieve, why not use them as you're eating. Consider this:

Instead of being distracted while eating and eating only because it's natural when you're hungry, try slowing down and as they say, "Smell the roses." In this case, change your mindset and enjoy the aroma of your food and the taste of it.

Research has shown that the digestion process begins in the mouth. The chewing action combined with your saliva begins breaking down the food and prepares it for further digestion in the stomach.

The mindset about food

As you swallow, think about and imagine the nutrients being extracted from food and is distributed to all of your body parts providing the necessary energy it needs to repair your cells and optimize bodily functions.

See your body using this food to give you the energy you need for your daily activities. See yourself experiencing health and wellness. As you do this, you'd consider making better food choices.

Gratitude

You know that gratitude opens the way for more good to come into your life. As you are eating, remember to say, "Thank you," for your food. Be appreciative of the fact that you have food to eat and that your food supply will always be plentiful.

Fuelling words: Food is good for my health and well-being, and therefore I am thankful for every bite I consume.

Routine: Warm-ups, stretches, aerobics, toning and strength exercises, cool down.

Visualization - keeping focus on my goal; healthy, strong and my ideal body weight and shape.

Deep breathing - relaxes the muscles and sends oxygen to the muscles where exercising alone would not reach.

Changing Inside Out Now! Getting my body back - Day 28

Renewed energy

Once you've rested and renewed your energy level, you're ready to get back into the swing of things again.

With vigour, you implement your new strategies to achieving your success. Draw from the renewed strength within you and build up those areas still lagging behind.

Be thankful for the small changes. Small changes, one step at a time, over a period of time add up to great differences from where you've started to the progress you've made.

No one was born as an adult. Everyone of us started off as an egg, fertilized and developed into an embryo and keeps growing into a full term baby. After birth, small changes occur day after day, year after year until adulthood.

If you were to look at each stage of human growth, birth/infancy, child, teenage, adult, you could use this as the progressive stage to visualize the process of growth for achieving your goal.

Expressing gratitude for small changes opens the door for more healthy growth to occur.

Fuelling words: I am energized to engage in daily activity and appreciate small changes.

Routine: Warm-ups, stretches, aerobics, toning and strength exercises, cool down.

Visualization - keeping focus on my goal; healthy, strong and my ideal body weight and shape.

Deep breathing - relaxes the muscles and sends oxygen to the muscles where exercising alone would not reach.