What You Need To Know About Gratitude Abundance
March 11, 2010 by Millie Laker
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How grateful are you today? Gratitude abundance teaches you to be grateful for the little things in order to get the bigger things in life you need.
A grateful attitude can help you to overcome the negative thinking that may rule your life. You do not have to look far to find many things you should be grateful for.
One of life’s greatest blessings is health. Persons who are no longer healthy will remind you that they should have been more grateful when they had their health. Persons having health are able to start again even when everything else is lost. They may regain lost items and rebuild items of importance.
Most persons should be grateful for shelter. Today there are persons that would be truly grateful for even the smallest of rooms in most homes to shelter their families form rain, cold or heat as well as disease carrying insects that may cause death to family members who are bitten in the night sleeping.
Persons reading this article have electricity, computers and power. For millions around the world these luxuries simply do not exist.
Have you stopped to be grateful for the food you have in your home. Tonight millions of children will go to bed hungry. These children are not just in third world countries, but may be just around the block from your own home. They could be down the street or even next door. Yet we find ourselves not wanting what we have but something else, so we head out to dinner without a second thought.
Are you grateful for your job. Recently the economy has been very harsh and many people have lost long term jobs as well as homes. Even after losing a job, many are provided for with unemployment compensation. Until they are able to find another job they may bring home a large percentage of the take home pay that they had when working a full time job.
When was the last time you stopped to be grateful for your family of origin. When you were a baby and a child unable to care for yourself, they offered nurture and love. Tonight, thousands of children will go to bed in the home of a foster family and could by moved by the courts tomorrow. Thousands more continue to live in abusive homes and will go to bed in fear tonight, hoping that their fears do not become a reality.
Even with so many things to be grateful for, there are many people that live their lives focusing only on the negative things of life. They focus on what they do not have rather on those things that they do have and should be showing gratitude for. As a result of their negative thinking, they are forcing away the very things that they say they want to have.
Gratitude abundance teaches you how to be thankful for the little things. This will change your way of thinking so that you can use the power of positive thinking to get the things that you really want.
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Keeping a gratitude journal (and gratitude in general) can be boring if you’re doing it the wrong way. Yes, there is a right way to be grateful and there is a wrong way! Do it the wrong way and you’ll be quick to think gratitude is nothing more than this flaky thing touchy-feely people ramble on about. Do it the right way and you will immediately experience a paradigm shift in your reality.
To begin, understand that gratitude is way more than saying “thanks” for all those things you are told you should be thankful for, like the food on your plate or the roof over your head. It is about realizing that everything can, does or will benefit your life in some way.
For example, a job loss can be a blessing in disguise, especially if you hated the job or always wanted to start a business, but never had the courage to quit. When you’re let go it’s no longer your choice, is it? This sudden shift forces you to take action. But it’s up to you decide what you’re going to do now. When you stop and look at the job loss as more of a blessing than a bad thing, you can start to think of all the cool things you can do with the newfound freedom. When you are stuck in the “poor me” phase (obviously the opposite of gratitude) your mind will be closed off to the benefits and you will most likely wind-up stuck in another dead end job you hate.
Gratitude, when done the right way will open up your mind to new opportunities, give you confidence and can even motivate you into making the changes you’ve always wanted to make, but never thought you could. It can also drastically increase your closeness to your Higher Power – or anyone else for that matter, if you want to. It’s truly an incredible force!
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